Low power, low budget arm boards in 2022 anyone?

szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3495

I'm preparing a little project which requires doing custom (but mostly easy) tasks in several locations. Was going to simply throw a few raspberries at the problem, but the stock is pretty much non-existent with long queues, so I find myself looking for alternatives. Too bad, easier said than done though.

So, I'm looking for cheap and low wattage devices with:
* 2 USB host ports
* 2GB RAM
* SD card slot (or USB). Not eMMC since those are soldered and can't be easily removed
* wifi (or USB)
* ethernet (or USB)

Nice to have, but not necessary:
* hardware watchdog
* PoE

Will be running linux, will be running headless.
Is there anything that would fit the description and be available in Europe?

pingtoo · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:04 pm Post subject:

May be friendlyelec.com have something fits your bill. I got two R4S from them year ago, works great for my RPI home lab, doing all my build on one of R4S then use on my rpi 4B.

Or check out Jeff Geerling's project. There may have something of interesting.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:55 pm Post subject:

szatox,

There is nothing special abut the PI. Its the same the world over.
You can't get the bits to build them ... whatever 'them' is.
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dbtx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jan 2020 Posts: 117

Radxa might have something you can use. Disclaimer: I bought a Zero just over a year ago and haven't really used it yet

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