“Fabulous easy to use and so much power this is an amazing board and theres so much to do and learn. This is the gateway to using AI to create new possibilities and expand you thoughts and ideas. I would highly recommend getting into Raspberry Pi.”
“My 2nd Pi 5. Very happy. These things are pretty fast for an SBC. Very good support from Pi Hut. This one is to drive my trainset. The picture shows it with the following hats, all from Sequent Microsystems. From the bottom up:
* Pi Hut perspex cover
* Raspberry Pi
* Smart Fan
* 3 x 8 relays. These are no/nc relays, 2 per track, to handle track polarity
* 2 x 8 MOSFET boards. These control the track power and link to the relays
* 3 x Home Automation cards, currently unwired, these each have 8 Opto-Isolated inputs for train detection
* 2 x 8 Solid State Relays to control points, 2 relays per point.
All code is in Python.”
“It's fine. Considering the price is up there with some of the much more powerful lattepanda boards, it's a bit underwhelming, to be honest, and the Linux support is not as fully featured as I expected.
It does what I need it to, and I was happy enough with it that I bought a second one, but unless the price comes down a tier, I'll likely be trying something else next time;
I've used these to build a media server and an all in one portable DDJ machine, and it just didn't quite meet my expectations in either case. I'm sure it has many other great uses but for my purposes the pi 5 feels like an awkward middle ground where it's not small, cheap or efficient enough to do MCU things with, but it's not powerful enough to compete with other boards in the same price bracket, and came with unforeseen software limitations which shrank the scope of the latter project significantly.
If you want to build a home computer project like a cyberdeck or something, or even a Plex server, I would advise against a raspberry pi. Many advanced Plex features will not work on a pi host, and a lot of software is limited in function if it even runs at all.
For a small retro game machine or something where you know for sure you don't need to run any software developed within the last fifteen years, or for smart home controllers or any number of other low footprint projects that are slightly too demanding for an ESP32 to pull off, I'm sure it'll work a treat. The price also won't sting so much if you don't upgrade to the 16gb version, which for my purposes turned out to be basically pointless.”
