[Community] [Gta04-owner] Phone based on raspberry pi?

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 13:35:31 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
>> Aside of squeezing everything into a small case you have to care about
>> power consumption,
>
> But this could be easily verified using multimeter. Either they got it right
> or they got it wrong.
>
>> lots of little bugs (especially USB host related ones)
>
> This would IMO depend on how much raspberry kernel is mature. They got tons
> of users - so there is pretty good chance that all works ok.

I've based this opinion on my own experiences with Raspberry Pi. It's
as reliable as you can expect from $30 hardware - if you're lucky your
configuration will work perfectly, but if you're not, you'll find a
lot of annoying problems (for me it was communication with USB HDD
failing after ~20-30 hours, freezing the system, firing watchdog
reboot and putting the board into reboot loop). However, I have an old
B variant - the new B+ has some tweaks, so it might work a bit better.

Anyway, Raspberry Pi is not optimized for battery - it's supposed to
be powered by USB 5V, which is a bit suboptimal for batteries. CPU
power management might not be fully used as well, especially with it
being actually a side-processor to the GPU which runs proprietary blob
and controls the ARM CPU. Hence my opinion about it being a nice,
cheap platform for a project made out of hobby, however, I believe
something like a BeagleBone would be better for any actual project
that would like to produce something.

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