 Carl one of my patreon supporters asked me to do a little talk about the Raspberry Pi's my views and thoughts on it Just a little bit about it. Let me start by saying I think the Raspberry Pi is a great great little device I actually have four of them the older models They're 256 megabytes of RAM and only have two USB ports unlike new ones Which are a bit faster and have four USB ports and a lot of other newer features And It is great for someone who wants to learn more about those devices if you want to be able to have some input output There's pins on it And it's very easy to set up. There's a large community. You can find help But I don't think it's the best for everything so I'm going to talk a little bit about a few different arm devices that I have worked with and Mainly I want to also talk about the Pogo plug the Pogo plug is a device that you can buy It's usually 15 to 20 dollars. Usually it's like right now. It's like $15 For it plus $5 shipping or it's $20. It's free shipping. So it should cost you around $20 and The Pogo plug is not as powerful as the Raspberry Pi's it has 256 megabytes of RAM So about the same as the Raspberry Pi's I have but the newer Raspberry Pi's are faster I couldn't tell you the processor speed on the Pogo plug But I don't think it's nearly as fast as the Raspberry Pi's So what are the advantages of it? Well one the cost now the Raspberry Pi is 35 dollars Which seems really cheap, but Although it's gotten a little bit better over the years when I bought mine It was $35 and then you know, they assume you have a lot of the accessories It was kind of designed to be able to work with stuff you have around the house So it powers the Raspberry Pi powers off of a micro USB plug Which if you have a cell phone priori have one of those SD card most people have SD cards lying around although you want to have a good one for the Raspberry Pi because if you use a cheaper one You're probably gonna have some issues, but let's just assume you don't have any of that stuff So Raspberry Pi you're gonna have to spend the $35 on that at least back when I bought mine was $10 shipping I think there's deals on Amazon where you get stuff packaged again cheaper But we'll say $35 plus $10 shipping or yeah shipping. That's 45. We'll say $10 for a Power supply, you know a decent USB cable at least $10 for a decent case when I bought mine Cases were a lot more expensive, but I've seen some good ones for $10 to $15 And then an SD card will say again will say $10 and that's I think that's low balling So those numbers so 35 45 55 65 $75 just to really get the Raspberry Pi up and going That's kind of expensive when you're looking at a small device like that You don't have to get all that stuff again You might have some of that stuff, but if you were going to have to buy all that stuff That's how much the Raspberry Pi is gonna cost you just off the bat Again, it does a lot more than the Pogo plug But if you don't need those extra features The Pogo plug is good now the Pogo plug does not have any video audio out So you're not going to use it as a media sensor That's one advantage of the Raspberry Pi again the Raspberry Pi has many advantages over the Pogo plug No audio video out But advantages to the Pogo plug is it's great for file storage, which is what it's used for it has no internal memory But it has four USB plugs and which is more than the original Raspberry Pi But at least with my Raspberry Pi's if I plug an external hard drive up to it through USB Something more than a flash have something with moving parts that draws a lot of power My Raspberry Pi just kind of reboots It just pulls too much power and that's just with one hard drive with the Pogo plug I can hook up for USB drives to it and all run fine That's what it's designed to do because it already has it has a larger power supply built into the unit I say built in the unit the unit comes case so you don't have to buy a case for it and it comes with a power cable So the only thing you have to buy for it Is some sort of storage and it could be as much as you want USB could be flash drives hard drives So you're looking at $20 and you're pretty much done besides the actual storage and It comes already designed as a file server The way it comes set up. It's running Linux What you do is literally it takes less than a minute to set up and anybody can do it So if you're not a technical person you plug the power in you plug it into your network You go online to their website you create your name password automatically to text the Pogo plug That's on your network and now you have your own cloud server. You can put whatever files you're on there They're but they're instead being up in the cloud. They're stored on Your Pogo plug on the hard drive ethnic to it But you can share those files with other people and you can you know share it with certain people and then pull away The rights to see those files so it can do a lot of stuff And it all has a web interface. It also has Applications for Android and Linux although I've never used them One of the things people do which I did is it's very simple to Install other versions of Linux on there used to have arch on it now I run Debian on it although check what model you're getting because the instructions are different for different models but basically you download a script and you run it and it's basically just redos the bootloader and I believe if I remember correctly when I had arch installed it wipes out the operating system on the device But if you're doing Debian the Debian install leaves the operating on his device and Installs Debian to a flash drive it also with our two installs to a flash drive or external hard drive and What happens then is it just modifies the bootloader and the bootloader first looks for operating systems on the USB devices If they're not there then it boots to the default Pogo plug interface which is nice so all depending on what operating system you want to install on there If you don't want to keep the original or if you want to keep the original and kind of do a dual boot type thing All the options are up there for you again very simple non-technical for The basic use of the Pogo plug To get the more advanced features out of it. You probably need to be advanced user if you're a medium user Yeah, it's might It's it's it's like one extreme or the other but you could definitely learn there's instructions out there And you can get like you said full version of Debian up and running on there on mine I have Debian running off a 2 gig USB flash drive and then I have two Separate terabyte drives a terabyte for my wife and a terabyte for me, and I've set up a patchy on it So that I can easily access files with my tablet or phone and I also set up SSH on there So I can do SFTP or SCP To copy files or retrieve files from it from my desktop. I also have it set up with screen running So I have IRC clients either Usually it right now. I'm using WeChat. I have that running 24-7 so I can SSH in I can also SSH tunnel through it Now all this stuff you can do with a raspberry pi But again, if you don't need the video out and the audio out that you have on the raspberry pi Or you don't need those GPIO pins you're looking at 15 to 20 dollars versus 35 to 75 dollars And again, it has that bare power supply for powering Hard drives, so if you're just looking for something to be able to store files on and you want to run Debbie and I you're not gonna do it something You know very labor-intensive because it's not that the processing speed is definitely not as fast as the raspberry pi The Pogo plug is a great cheap option. There's other things out there If you're looking for something really small you might want to Google something called the mini-poner and the mini-poner I have one It's designed for poning networks, but it's also very small. It's $20. It's a small Router with a USB port on it and you can flash it to get other versions of Linux on there And then you have a little tiny server where the Pogo plug is a little bit bigger than a raspberry pi It's about this big, you know size of a small book maybe square book Where the mini-poners the size of an external cell phone battery, you know, it's it's not very big at all So if you're looking for something small, but that definitely doesn't have nearly the power as the Pogo plug so the advantage of that is just The teeny tiny smallness of it and the learning experience of messing with it But for most people I think as far as low-cost arm devices that you're going to use If you need something again for with video and audio that you're gonna be do media stuff with or if you need something It's interact with other hardware using GPIO pins Raspberry Pi is a good option if you're just looking for a headless server that you can run Linux on and you can Install whatever you want normally on there The Pogo plug is definitely a great option Just have running all the time. Like I said, I've had mine for five years now and no issues It's just been sitting there behind my TV and it's just a great extra backup for all my files. So Those my thoughts on arm devices. I'd like to hear what arm devices you like Comment below, you know, like I said, I'm not saying that Raspberry Pi is better than the Pogo plug The Pogo plug is better than Raspberry Pi, but they're good for different uses and Raspberry Pi might be overkill for a lot of uses So what devices do you like and why what are the advantages of them? Do you have some that are even cheaper but more powerful or ones that are more expensive to give you more features? Let me know in the comments below and again Karl my patreon supporter I thank you for suggesting this topic and I hope that you all have a great day and visit my website Filmsbychrist.com that's Chris of the K. 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