Best of Raspberry Pi — October 2024

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    5 obscure self-hosted services worth checking out

    Discover five obscure but valuable self-hosted services that can enhance your home lab. Tube Archivist lets you save YouTube videos, while Tandoor Recipes helps manage meal planning and recipes. Kiwix allows for offline access to extensive educational databases using minimal hardware. RomM organizes and runs your game ROMs, and Trilium Notes offers robust personal knowledge management. Each service provides unique functionalities and supports various server platforms.

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    Building a game with the Real Engine

    The author chose to create a game using handcrafted dioramas instead of traditional 3D modeling tools like Blender, due to difficulties working with artists and personal preferences. They describe the detailed process, including prototyping, camera setup, and the challenges faced in building and photographing dioramas. The game, set in a mountainous abbey, promises a unique art style and innovative approaches to common game development problems. Expected release is in 2025 or 2026.

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    your home automation SUCKS!!

    The author describes a humorous and intricate home automation project designed to solve the issue of a child frequently throwing toilet paper into the toilet. By using a Raspberry Pi with Home Assistant, they create an automated system that alerts the household and initiates various actions such as turning lights red, disabling internet access, and playing a warning message on all TVs when the bathroom door or toilet seat is left open. The project involves setting up multiple smart devices, leveraging ZigBee for local control, integrating with Plex for media playback, and using Twin Gate for remote access.

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    Raspberry Pi Launch Own-Brand SSDs Priced From $30

    Raspberry Pi has launched its own range of branded SSDs, making it simpler to add high-performance storage to the Raspberry Pi 5. The drives, available in 256 GB and 512 GB sizes, are competitively priced and guaranteed to work well with official and most third-party M.2 HAT expansions. Additionally, Raspberry Pi offers an SSD kit that includes the required M.2 HAT, providing an all-in-one solution for users who don’t have an expansion board.

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    Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming

    The post covers the process of setting up and using an external GPU with a Raspberry Pi 5 for enhanced 4K gaming performance. It includes detailed instructions on the necessary hardware setup, choosing compatible graphics cards, and patching the Linux kernel to enable full GPU support. Additionally, it discusses the performance benchmarks achieved and potential applications beyond gaming, such as video transcoding.

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    I Ran 9 Popular LLMs on Raspberry Pi 5; Here's What I Found

    The Raspberry Pi 5, equipped with a 4-core Cortex-A76 CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, and a VideoCore VI GPU, was used to test various large language models (LLMs) for their efficiency and performance. Models tested include Phi-3.5B, Gemma2-2B, Qwen2.5-3B, Mistral-7B, and Llama 2-7B, among others. Key metrics were inference time, accuracy, and resource utilization. Notably, models under 7 billion parameters generally performed well, with specific strengths found in different LLMs such as Qwen2.5's speed and Gemma2's efficiency. The results highlight the Pi's capability to handle AI tasks given the proper model selection.

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