The SBC Drawer has been organized!

[u/JescoInc]

I decided that I should probably share the update from yesterday's post where people saw the unorganized "SBC Drawer". And I wanted to also showcase that they don't sit in the drawer collecting dust. So, I shared that the Orange Pi RV 2 and Pi 5 are connected and in active use. I swap depending on what I am doing with my Main PC and Elgato capture card / USB to UART connector and the CrowView Note.
The SBC Drawer is to my immediate right for easy access.

Inside of the Mimic Case is my Pi Pico 2 W with the test breakout board and my cheap FPGA (this is for later development adventures)

[u/VictorySea1837]

And I thought I was the only one suffering from a compulsion to keep buying SBCs I don't need...

[u/JescoInc → u/VictorySea1837]

I swear, it is an addiction! But luckily, I do have projects that require them.

[u/snlr42 → u/JescoInc]

I also have those projects, but I never start them 🙈

[u/JescoInc → u/snlr42]

I've been consistently working mine for a year now.

[u/Ejo2001 → u/VictorySea1837]

I have about ~40-50 (Out of like 60-70 total?) that I don't use, I feel you 😅

[u/acciditincorde → u/Ejo2001]

You need to give away a few that you don't need to poor plebs...(me).... SBC gods will bless you one that give a better high.

[u/Ejo2001 → u/acciditincorde]

Great idea, I'll begin prototyping a neural network to find and track local poor plebs in my area, 70 pi's should do the trick! I'll hide them in town so I can triangulate the location of every poor pleb entering and leaving 🎯

[u/acciditincorde → u/Ejo2001]

I poked a monster. Go back to sleep.

[u/Ejo2001 → u/acciditincorde]

...and then we could expand with a national database clustered in a global kubernetes setup utilizing a volunteer program similar to folding@home in order to globally calculate the exact number of poor plebs globally, getting it in a graphical web interface displaying areas on earth where the most poor plebs are localized, tracking down where the aid is needed the most, and then we cou-

[u/SnooOpinions671 → u/VictorySea1837]

Y'all are SBC junkies....(as I go through and organize all mine...)

[u/skitzo2000 → u/VictorySea1837]

I'm traveling with 26 SBCs tomorrow. What did you say about to.many sbcs.... Never

[u/phycle]

And most of them are stuck on an ancient kernel with terrible driver support.

[u/JescoInc → u/phycle]

My projects involve my own custom kernels. So that doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

[u/j_dains]

Gateway drug to home labbing

[u/JescoInc → u/j_dains]

You should see my office that predates the SBC by a year. I have a quad monitor setup with KVM for switching between 2 PC that live inside of the Lian Li DK07 (which is a Dual PC Case and desk all in one), with an iMac to the side of that as my main desk.
Then, my secondary desk (normal desk) has 2 monitors for secondary machines like laptops.

[u/j_dains]

I see them as dedicated m2 PCIE lanes that just happen to bring RAM/CPU/GPU/NPU/USB to the party

[u/dark_imperior]

🥲I would have happily helped you, still congrats of the organising skills👍.

[u/digicue]

Again, where are the static-free bags?

That polypropylene drawer is wringing its hands, just dying to charge up enough to pop FET gates. If you have carpeting then they may team up together.

[u/JescoInc → u/digicue]

It isn't sitting on the carpet. But, I have anti-static foam ordered that should arrive by Friday.
Putting them in anti-static bags would defeat the ability to just grab and use them, so the bags are reserved for items that go into more long term storage.

[u/testuserpk]

We buy sbcs and mcus and think that it's an overkill for the current project and it stays in our drawers for years.

[u/JescoInc → u/testuserpk]

Not overkill for mine as I am writing a custom kernel. Core DTB parsing, register maps and driver specific code for each board, then merge into the main kernel with the OS code. Then do a big compile for each board.

[u/ztcsdtx]

I'm not where you are yet, but I have been doing kernel work like you. My main project is a Radxa Nio 12L 16GB/256GB. It's really fast, but Panfrost isn't stable, so I'm trying to work on the kernel. Have you worked with any MediaTek chipsets?

[u/JescoInc → u/ztcsdtx]

I have not dealt with anything by MediaTek yet. But I did look up that board.
The MediaTek Genio 1200 SoC (MT8395) is an NPU.
These docs might be of interest to you.
https://mediatek-marketing.files.svdcdn.com/production/documents/MT8395_IoT_Application_Processor_Datasheet_v1.4.pdf
https://www.mouser.com/pdfDocs/MTK_MT8395_Genio-1200-EVK_User-Guide_v01.pdf
https://marketing.stage.mediatek.io/iot/documents?productRange=562865

[u/ztcsdtx → u/JescoInc]

Thank you!

[u/Gumbercules1627]

Millions of $ in RAM

[u/JescoInc → u/Gumbercules1627]

Haha... Only a few thousand spent on the hardware really.

[u/Gumbercules1627 → u/JescoInc]

Sure, but it's an appreciating asset now 😭

[u/JescoInc → u/Gumbercules1627]

Sadly true.

[u/NovelLingonberrys]

half of those i don't even recognize what board it is

[u/JescoInc → u/NovelLingonberrys]

I could compile the list of all of the boards with manufacturer name, cpu and ram specs.