From a mechanical keyboard that lets you talk to type, to an Arm ITX motherboard, the Pi community's been hard at work.
The Compute Module 5 doesn't much of anything by itself. But check out some amazing new projects built around it in today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ42lbLFxv8
@geerlingguy are you by chance coming to Edinburgh in a week?
I evaluated this board here:
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/CM4-DUAL-ETH-4G/5G-BASE
But the LTE modem showed a poor performance. I suspected that it didn't get enough power. After a couple of days, it just burnt and stopped seeing the LTE port completely. It gave a nostalgic scent of burned silicon for a short while :)
Ordered another one, will see if it's a one-off issue.
@geerlingguy also, today a new board arrived: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EGei9tU
No documentation anywhere, and no output on standard UART pins. I wrote to their support, let's see how it goes. Seems like I need to start a new blog for this:)
@geerlingguy seems like a typical Chinese design: their CM module works with their own baseboard, and probably doesn't work with others (I'm still trying to find the schematics).
Reminded me of a Chinese robot with a MCU that has a Microbit compatible plug, but the pinout is completely different, so no microbit or any compatible board would work with it. Sounds like a cargo cult :)
@geerlingguy LOL, yeah, their console UART is where RPI has Ethernet pins, and the HDMI interface is where RPI has generic GPIO.
So, walnut goes in trash, I don't want to buy a special baseboard for that.
Jeff Geerling
Bonkers
Mikalai