Raspberry Pi 5

PI's are expensive. But they have a very stable and well developed software eco system and are really flexible. [...] Because with a Raspberry Pi 5 I'm able to make amazing wildlife camera sysetems that use thermal imaging and local AI to make an extremely effective solar powered wolf detector. [...] I've collected over 60 videos of wolves from just one site with a Raspberry Pi 5 in this manner. [...]

I daily drove my Raspberry Pi 5 for all of 2024. It primarily compiled tons of C++ and served 1080p video via Jellyfin, and it did so flawlessly.

For cheap yet snappy cards, I have been using Kingston Canvas Go Plus with great success. When used in a Raspberry Pi 5, I personally don't feel any lag. [...] Extreme Pro), which I use in my cameras and never managed to break one.

Personally, I run a Yinker 4x4 matrix (in: nintendo switch 1, chromecast, mac pro 4.1 I use as a gaming rig, raspberry pi 5, out: projector, TV, pi 5) and am quite happy with it - no outages so far in half a year of uptime. I desperately need to work with CEC though lol, never had the time to actually test that. [1]

I left my Hetzner VPS open to password logins for over 3 years, no security updates, no firewalls, no kernel updates, no apt upgrades; only fail2ban and I survived: Don't be me, but have some solace in the fact that even if you royally mess up things won't be as bad as you think. I self host a lot of things on a VPS and have recently started self hosting on a raspberry pi 5, it's extremely liberating!

Hi HN — I spent the last three months building an LLM inference engine from scratch in C. The result is geistlib: it runs Microsoft’s BitNet 2B model fully offline on a 4 GB Raspberry Pi 5, packaged as a single 1.2 GB executable containing both the engine and the model. [...] The inference engine is written from scratch and specialized for BitNet's ternary weights: −1, 0, +1. [...] On my Raspberry Pi 5: geistlib: 15–18 tokens/s Microsoft bitnet.cpp: 9.3 tokens/s Energy: 0.44 J/token Same board, same model. [...]

10 months ago I've built a Raspberry Pi 5 mini NAS with 3 SSDs connected through RADXA Penta Hat. [...] I can only complain about the lack of hardware decoding in Raspberry Pi 5. [...] If I knew this, I'd consider a cheaper and faster, but less popular, RADXA machine. [...]

Just checked my Amazon history, and in late 2020 I bought two Raspberry Pi 4s with 4GB memory for ¥6,500 JPY ($62 USD) each. At the time, they were in somewhat short supply and I payed a little over the $55 list price from a reseller on Amazon. It looks like the current price on Amazon for the Raspberry Pi 4 4GB is ¥18,800 ($117 at current rates), which is indeed expensive AF. Oddly, the Raspberry Pi 5 4GB is priced about the same, at ¥18,950 ($119). Considering inflation and the speed increases over the 4, the Raspberry Pi 5 price doesn't seem too unreasonable to me. But having the price go up well over ¥10,000 definitely takes it out of the realm of impulse buy and more into something I would only buy if I had a specific and urgent need. [...] My big regret at the moment is not buying a 4TB M.2 SSD last year when prices were dipping down below ¥30,000. [...] I had one in my cart, but decided not to buy it with the rationale that "well I still don't need the space right now, and the price per TB will probably come down even further by the time I do need it". That is, after all, the way that prices on computer component have worked for most of my life.

[...] On-device or Edge Computing has been (for me at least) divided into two subgroups: those with ML expertise who obsess over algorithms & optimization methods and hobbyists who run into useful case studies that fall short at LLMs and a Raspberry Pi 5 with tens of attachments. [...]

[...] Was swapping a CF card back and forth between a 486 PC and my laptop that was running Claude and it was extremely tedious and required me to physically be at the system. Automated it entirely by giving Claude hands/eyes/ears so it can take complete control of the 486 using a raspberrypi 5, a usb4vc HAT for PS/2 and a VGA capture device. Adding an ethernet card and a tcp/ip boot profile for FTP, Claude then can update binaries, test them, and gather logs. [...]

Try a raspberry pi 5 and tinker. I use it for my daily work. [...]

They are really good for edge devices. We have a Raspberrypi 5 running as a thermal imaging enabled wildlife camera with local AI. I don't think you can find another platform that can support this as well.

I see the 'battery backed' as an issue. Keeping it plugged in like that is going to harm the battery. [...] Electronic price need to become reasonable again, a 8gb raspberry pi 5 is about 200€ right now. [...]

I made 2 Raspberry Pi5 NAS's. [...] Absolutely perfect for Proxmox backups, our pictures, media, etc, etc. No fuss, easy replacement of drives without needing to keep drives of the same size around. [...]

[...] I've been using their golang SDK ( @v0.5.10 to create sandboxes, attach them to agent sessions to execute, and then throw away, all in a raspberry pi 5 k3s cluster (as they have ARM support, if you're into that sort of thing). The microsandbox code is still a bit in flux (since it hasn't reached v1.0 API stability yet), but it's definitely worth checking out as it looks to have a solid foundation. [...]

[...] A single USB cable presents the device to a host computer as a class-compliant audio and MIDI interface ala Elektron Overbridge. [...] While you can run this on a Raspberry Pi 5, Pi 5s don't expose USB OTG. The carrier board is what makes the class-compliant Audio+MIDI over USB work. [...]

I run mine on their own machine, without root access. Currently a Raspberry Pi 5 I am very pleased with it. My Idiot Savant Pet

I had the opposite, but it was for a SSD for a raspberry pi 5. I asked it to look online for good price. [...]

[...] It runs on a Raspberry Pi 5. [...] Install (30 seconds): pip install aipaygen-mcp claude mcp add aipaygen -- aipaygen-mcp Or use the remote server directly: Try it (no install): curl " curl " curl -X POST " -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"text": "Your text here", "length": "short"}' What's included: 40 AI tools, 6 web scrapers (Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), 43 utility APIs (WHOIS, SSL, geocoding, stocks), vision, RAG, diagrams, agent builder with 10 templates, seller marketplace with escrow, buyer SDK. [...]

[...] Right now I'm deep in the software/OS layer - getting the core system working (Qt/QML UI, Docker services, on-device AI with Phi-3, offline maps, Meshtastic integration). [...] It's built on Raspberry Pi 5 + ESP32-S3 doing the heavy lifting for LoRa mesh comms and always-on sensors. [...] The app ecosystem is key - I want developers to easily build specialized tools that work in their workflow. Communication-first design too - Meshtastic for long-range mesh when networks are down, with graceful degradation from LTE → WiFi → LoRa → GPS beacon. [...] Still super early (hence the software focus first), but the goal is a rugged platform that people can actually build on and customize for their specific needs. [...]

[...] Gemini can bang out in seconds what would take me far longer (and it's reasonable at basic tailwind style front-end design to boot). [...] It takes far long to think of how I want something to function in this example than it does for Gemini to successfully produce it. This is a use case scenario where something like Gemini 3 is exceptionally capable, and far exceeds the capability requirements needed to produce a decent outcome. Do I want my next operating system vibe coded by Gemini 3? [...] An SM-24 Geophone + Raspberry PI 5 + ADC board. Hey Gemini / GPT, I need to build bin files from the raw voltage figures + timestamps, then using flask I need a web viewer + conversion on the geophone velocity figures for displacement and acceleration. [...]

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 at home Same here for years (Pi 4) but without the cloudflare part. It's been painless.

[...] I am using Chromium on Raspberry Pi 5. [...]

It's a little bigger than what I imagine you're looking for, but the Radxa 5 ITX (not the ITX+) has 4 SATA ports, PoE+ (via a separate module), 2x2.5GbE, and the RK3588 SoC - I've been testing OpenMediaVault on it for the last couple of weeks and it's been pretty solid. If you're fine with M.2, the Radxa ROCK 5B+ has 2 M.2 M-Key connectors, the same RK3588 SoC, and PoE via a HAT bought separately. Otherwise, there are dual NVMe HATs for the Raspberry Pi 5 but you'll be splitting a single PCIe Gen 2 lane across both drives (unless you go for the much more expensive HATs that have a Gen 3 PCIe switch on them to then share a single Gen 3 lane across them!)

Apple is the only company that controls both the hardware and the software. [...] I have a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2 displays plugged in for monitoring my systems. [...]

[...] Still own a Lenovo Thinkpad and Lenovo Yoga, though this was posted on Raspberry Pi 5. Have a sever chip Thinkpad on Win 10, but won't get Win 11 due to lack of onboard security FYI I bought an IBM Thinkpad in 1995. [...]

[...] the latest pi needs considerations of cooling solutions FYI you can run the Raspberry Pi 5 without a fan or even a heatsink. It will safely throttle itself if it gets too hot. If you're trying to get maximum performance out of it all the time, you will want a heatsink and fan. [...]

I use Rio, Acme, and occasionally Sam from plan9port [1]. The only major problems are X.org dependency, lack of mouse warping in XWayland (essential for Acme), and slow text rendering on Raspberry Pi 5. [1]:

[...] I didn't try OpenClaw previously due to the security considerations, but your fork made me feel good about installing it on a Raspberry Pi 5, connecting it to Ollama on my Mac Mini in another physical location via Tailscale, and interacting with it via Telegram. [...]

[...] Raspberry Pi 5 + the 26 TOPS HAT+ is not cheap.

[...] I started off using a Raspberry Pi 5, and used a GPIO to VGA hat to generate the 15khz RGB signal that the monitor expects. [...] The control panel was built from scratch. I used an ESP32 board to detect inputs from the buttons, as well as drive the RGB LEDS in the buttons. Th ESP32 outputs keyboard keypresses, and accepts serial input over USB to change the color of the buttons. My goal here is to have the buttons illuminate based on which game is loaded. [...] I'm going to put together a big blog post once I get closer to completion, but for now, here are some photos.

I've used it with the Coral EdgeTPU and Hailo. [...] The Raspberry Pi 5 seems like a good choice, but unfortunately, it lacks video encoding. [...] It is possible to use the USB EdgeTPU, but anything more than a few camera streams will not go well with the Raspberry Pi. [...] Everything was large, and that's probably why the N100 couldn't keep up with 5 cameras. I can't confirm it because that system's disk died and it hasn't yet been restored. [...] I have a Minisform MS-01 that should be able to transcode more camera streams. [...]

[...] Raspberry pi doesn't need a fan It's recommended for Pi 5, and if you're running a Pi 4, you should at least use a little heat sink, the 4 and 5 run pretty warm, and under any load they can throttle quite easily. [...] Also the other peripherals you consider are irrelevant, since you would need them (or not), in other setups No, they're not irrelevant, because if you buy a Mini-PC you get SSD, RAM, cooling, case, PSU included in the price. You can use a pi without a PSU for example You can wing it with some odd USB charger you have lying around, but my experience over a decade killing tens of high-quality microSDs in Pis, power throttling and brown outs is that you should stick to the Pi spec (5.1V) PSUs, the current can typically be lower than their rated if you're not connecting peripherals but a proper USB spec plug will be 5V not the 5.1V the Pi wants. [...] Mini-PC with N100, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, case, cooling, PSU, better IO, much better performance, etc: £128[0] Pi 5, bare board, nothing else: £114[1] These aren't some obtuse websites, they're places I shop all the time, PiHut is an official distributor in the UK, and the Amazon result is the second result for "mini pc". The thing about the performance gap here is that you can replace 2-3+ Raspberry Pis with a single Mini-PC for the same price as a single Raspberry Pi 5. [...]

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

With Raspberry Pi prices going crazy lately due to RAM shortages, picking the right Raspberry Pi model is harder than ever. I basically have all of them, so I use the Raspberry Pi 5 most of the time (I bought it before the price went up, though).... raspberrypi linux

My cybersecurity lab is about to outgrow my laptop. And that’s exactly the point. This Raspberry Pi 5 is becoming part of my future home cybersecurity lab.

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 at home as a lightweight web server. [...]

I always need lower power consumption. I'm in the UK and my power costs are $0.40 per kWh. Even running a raspberry pi 5 24/7 would cost me $25 per year