Last Updated on December 28, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
We have here a new instruction for a Raspberry Pi case from How to Electronics in India on YouTube:
It has also support for M.2 SATA SSD:
https://docs.sunfounder.com/projects/pironman/en/latest/ssd.html
We have reviewed so many Linux watches, Linux phones, and Raspberry PIs on our journal. We had once and Android phone which allowed to write to the SD card, which we could stick in to our PC. We were also able to plug in the Android phone via USB to write to the SD card. We could not find a simple replacement for this option. We have an excellent software for Office on Android from Softmaker on Android:
https://www.softmaker.com/en/softmaker-office-android
It is based on Softmaker Office for desktop and is great. It is free now, Softmaker was apparently not able to make money out of it. We could not find a better solution for mobile office. The easiest way for us is a Google Cast stick. We would choose another solution than one from Google if we could find one, but this one works, and a Bluetooth keyboard and a mouse.
Next to this, the LattePanda V1 could convince us from DF Robot:
https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1405.html
It works with a 7 inch touch display. We are familiar with Windows 10, we do not have to test all the Linux distros to find out which one works best for us. We think we are completely happy with a Xiaomi Redmi 9 Android phone, which allows also to flash Ubports on it, and additionally to evaluate the LattePanda V1, how it works with an external SSD for OS booting, and if we can use it as a mobile data acquisition system. We do not have any plans to get Raspberry Pi reviewers, and we will continue to evaluate the Xiaomi Redmi 9 and the LattePanda V1.
Our setup which we are evaluating currently consists of:
1). A Xiaomi Redmi 7 with Softmaker Office on it to use as an Android phone
- We can also flash Ubports on it to use it as a Linux phone according to the UBports documentation. We do not know if we can access it from a PC running Linux as a network drive.
- We do not know whether we can restore the comfort we had before Google prevented us to use the external SD card as a drive which is free to read and write files on it with a Ubports phone.
- Google who bought 2005 Android from Andy Rubin offers us to synchronize all our files to Google Drive. This is something which we won t do. We only suffer since Google eliminated the option to write to the external SD card, and eliminated to access it over USB from a PC as well. We suffer not to have these options anymore. (1*)
2.) a Raspberri PI for balenaHealth
3.) a LattePanda V1 for a Home Assistant balena etcher image to flash it on.
4.) a LattePanda V1 for OpenBCI GUI, which we can also use for Lab Streaming Layer.
5.) A router with 3 ethernet cable connectors.
6.) 3 ethernet cables to connect devices 2,3 and 4 to the router.
7.) A LattePanda V1 with external SSD which we use as a Laptop.
We see no reason to buy a laptop which is more powerful than this. We can use it with a 10 inch display.
The setup is not easy, but this is what we will do together. We eventually can simplify it together sooner or later.
(1*) According to wibble, supporter in the Pine64 forum, it is possible to write to the external SD card of the PinePhone. It is also possible to connect it to a Linux network with a Linux PC in a relatively easy way, and access the Linux PinePhone from the Linux network with a Linux PC.