Raspberry Pi 4B 32GB SD 8GB RAM - good value for money?

[Deleted User]

CPU, RAM, USB controller and Ethernet chip are the 4 main chips. 

Yes that case is probably the one I’m going to swap to and would replace my stick on heat sinks. 

w00519773

Deleted_User said:

CPU, RAM, USB controller and Ethernet chip are the 4 main chips. 

Yes that case is probably the one I’m going to swap to and would replace my stick on heat sinks. 

I am sure I read somewhere that this case is not compatible with HATS and vHATS and other add ons'.  I thought it was in the assembly guide: https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-roundup/aluminium-armour-heatsink-case-assembly-instructions.  Is this the only heat sink case you know of?

[Deleted User]

w00519773 said:

Deleted_User said:

CPU, RAM, USB controller and Ethernet chip are the 4 main chips. 

Yes that case is probably the one I’m going to swap to and would replace my stick on heat sinks. 

I am sure I read somewhere that this case is not compatible with HATS and vHATS and other add ons'.  I thought it was in the assembly guide: https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-roundup/aluminium-armour-heatsink-case-assembly-instructions.  Is this the only heat sink case you know of?

Yes, but didn’t think you needed to use a hat because your original Labist box isn’t compatible with a directly fitted hat either however you can connect a hat externally via a ribbon cable with the heat sink box or the Labists one in your original post. 

The box in your original post uses two of the GPIO pins for the fan so you won’t be able to use the fan once you plug in the ribbon cable for an external hat anyway so you are better off with passive cooling if you are using a hat. 

Yes there are lots more thermal boxes, just search the PiHut site or Amazon, I just picked one I recommended but I didn’t know you wanted to use a hat at the time. 

forgotmyname

Mickey666 said:

I've not got down to £1 yet but I've played around a fair bit with Arduino Nano boards at 3 for a tenner

Bought Arduino Uno clones from Ebay (Chinese seller) £1.14. Thought a mistake and no way would they be that cheap.
Being cheeky and chancing it I purchased 5.  2 and a bit weeks later 5 arrived complete with short USB cables...

4 worked perfectly but the 5th one would not flash, eventually sorted by using another Arduino to flash it. Worked
perfectly after that, must have been corrupt originally?

Mickey666

forgotmyname said:

Mickey666 said:

I've not got down to £1 yet but I've played around a fair bit with Arduino Nano boards at 3 for a tenner

Bought Arduino Uno clones from Ebay (Chinese seller) £1.14. Thought a mistake and no way would they be that cheap.
Being cheeky and chancing it I purchased 5.  2 and a bit weeks later 5 arrived complete with short USB cables...

4 worked perfectly but the 5th one would not flash, eventually sorted by using another Arduino to flash it. Worked
perfectly after that, must have been corrupt originally?

Yes, these things are amazingly cheap, especially when you consider that the Chinese manufacturers must be making a worthwhile profit from them, even after shipping them halfway around the world.  Also helps to understand why Apple is the richest company in the world, selling £1000 iPhones that probably cost less than $50 to manufacture.

My cynical half thinks it's the Chinese long-term plan for world domination by economic supremacy.  While 'the west' operates on a planning horizon that barely stretches to the next election, the Chinese are not hampered by all that democratic nonsense and can concentrate on planning for 50, 100 years ahead.  I imagine that the Greeks and Romans didn't really perceive their empires collapsing at the time, but it happened all the same. 

Jenni_D

Mickey666 said:
I imagine that the Greeks and Romans didn't really perceive their empires collapsing at the time, but it happened all the same. 

One could argue that the Chinese state is more akin to the Greek and Roman empires than the western "democracies". So when will the Chinese "empire" collapse?  

coffeehound

Mickey666 said:
Yes, these things are amazingly cheap, especially when you consider that the Chinese manufacturers must be making a worthwhile profit from them, even after shipping them halfway around the world. 

...
My cynical half thinks it's the Chinese long-term plan for world domination by economic supremacy.  While 'the west' operates on a planning horizon that barely stretches to the next election, the Chinese are not hampered by all that democratic nonsense and can concentrate on planning for 50, 100 years ahead. 

They are certainly agressively killing all manufacturing in the West.  Every new western product * is cloned within months and then offered for sale at a fraction of the price.  The shipping from China is paid for by the government as part of this strategy.

* Except commercial jet engines it would seem -- because they are too hard to copy, apparently.  Ha.

JohnSwift10

I've got a Raspberry Pi zero it only cost me £9.99 plus £3 p&p.
I connect it to my monitor using mini HDMI adapter and use an old USB keyboard and mouse I had lying around.
Presently learning python