Perhaps also the Lattepanda won’t be sufficient as I notice that the Atom chip runs REALLY hot and I’m just fitting it with a fan to take some heat away. That second need is brought on by never really getting my Plex project working: I could get the recording part through my HD Homerun TV recorder working, and storage wasn’t a problem – it was just that the particular box I chose to put it on wasn’t strong enough to do the transcoding needed to play back the movies on different devices. I’d also like to play movies through it, if possible. Harking back to an earlier post, this is mostly brought on by a couple of things: a need to run some trenchant Windows software. My collection of Beaglebones, RasPis, Odroids and others is now joined by a SBC powered by an Intel. So too most SBCs including the well known Raspberry Pi. ARM cornered the market for low-powered devices and most mobile phones use them. You may know that most single-board computers (SBCs) run on ARM chips. But what really intrigued me was the Lattepanda itself. Buying via a maker web site was simple (their shopping cart software is Shopify and they use BitPay as a payment cartridge). The Bitcoin part is unremarkable – I don’t speculate on it nor use it as a store of value, just for transactions. But the real issue is that in a sealed box this will not be possible – I have to find a way to click that micro-button externally. This is done by pressing the ‘on’ micro button on the side to start the boot. First you ‘switch it on’ by supplying power to the USB lead which goes through a sequence of blinking red and blue LEDs, then into a quiescent state of blue LED only waiting for you to trigger the Windows boot. Switching it on and offĪnother issue is that the LattePanda has a curious boot-up sequence. For that I am using an external USB female panel mount and connect that to the USB input on the computer. I was able to get a small micro-USB through a 10mm grommet by removing the sealed cable end, however I now have a bigger problem in that I need to get a USB-A type plug through to service the Seneye SUD device. There were some challenges: Getting a USB cable through a grommetĭid you spot my problem? It is in the bottom right of the photo. Air holes drilled into each end and push/pull fans drawing the air past the computer board seemed to be an excellent idea as the Intel chip runs very hot. In the end I have decided that a completely sealed box is unreasonable, although you could imagine a small water-cooled one with the radiator external to the sealed box. This means an IP56 custom housing which presents me with a challenge: how to get heat out of a sealed box? The main purpose of this is to run my Seneye aquarium monitor, so it needs to fit under my aquarium along with the other items that I’ve built to automate my fish hobby. This works great, although the Intel Atom chip runs a little hot and needs extra cooling. As mentioned before, I purchased a Lattepanda as a single-board computer for running Windows 10.
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