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Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

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276 points transpute | 6 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source | bottom
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firesteelrain ◴[04 Jul 25 13:26 UTC] No.44464357[source]▶
Are the two boards even in the same category or class?

I use RPi for little hobby projects

- RPi Pico for being the payload that flies around the world in a PicoBalloon

- Decoding NOAA weather imagery and storing it in my Google Drive

- Full time AIS message decoder and tracker

- Full time ADS-B and MLAT receiver

- Runs my RetroPie setup

- Runs my OctoPrint setup

I wouldn’t replace much of that with an Intel NUC style computer

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1. dvdkon ◴[04 Jul 25 13:36 UTC] No.44464433[source]▶
Except for the Pico (which is very different from the full RPi), you could do all that with a mini-PC.

There are certainly usecases, especially using the RPi's low-level IO, where that's not possible, but as you yourself have shown, people do often get into situations where they are competitors.

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2. geon ◴[04 Jul 25 13:39 UTC] No.44464459[source]▶
The more standardized hardware if the rpi tends to make a lot of stuff much easier.
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3. firesteelrain ◴[04 Jul 25 16:37 UTC] No.44465931[source]▶
I just can’t see putting the NUC in my attic for example with my ADSB receiver
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4. wpm ◴[05 Jul 25 02:18 UTC] No.44469621[source]▶
A miniPC is just a PC though, with UEFI and ACPI, how are they not standard?
5. dingaling ◴[05 Jul 25 06:49 UTC] No.44470613[source]▶
Probably shouldn't have your decoder in the attic anyway, as they aren't well suppressed in terms of EM interference which will seep into the antenna. Particularly a cheap AC-DC wall wart, they're basically broad-spectrum noise-jammers.

I shunt the USB output of the SSR dongles onto Ethernet and pipe that to the PC downstairs.

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6. firesteelrain ◴[05 Jul 25 10:00 UTC] No.44471512{3}[source]▶
Huh? It’s ADSB 1090 MHz on a short run of coax to a FlightAware SDR USB dongle. It’s an urban environment so I don’t expect much but I receive plenty of aircraft over 300 nm. Any further away and I would have loss due to inherent limitations of the coax. I could go with like LMR400 but I am not going to spend that kind of money or add like a LNA. This is a setup people commonly use