Raspberry Pi Update - Encourage your IoT Masafumi Ohta Japanese Raspberry Pi Users Group
WHO AM I - Now leading Raspberry Pi Users Group,A Japanese Raspberry Pi Community here in Japan. - Volunteer for Raspberry Pi Foundation - one of the moderator for official Raspberry Pi Forum helping the Foundation.
‘Raspberry Pi is useful for my business?’ – Someone asking me..
SURE IT IS! • But please consider ‘Raspberry Pi Foundation’ is NPO for children IT education. • And consider Raspberry Pi itself is not so stronger than any other Embedded board,which is for factory automation or etc.. • but it is very stronger than any other similar one
ANOTHER ASPECT • Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd is trading subsidiary for their business function. • Raspberry Pi Foundation continues to going on their charity projects for the children education as NPO.
COMPUTE MODULE • Raspberry Pi Compute module is DIMM-sized tiny PC for embedded computing. • There are some partners which has the products including Compute Module. • Camera,Audio equipments and etc..
CUSTOM PI by Element 14 • Custom Pi is based on Raspberry PI x customized by your order • Considering the layout as possible • Remove/Add some devices • 5000 units/minimum order quantity (MOQ)
ON THE OTHER HAND.. • In the software aspect is Raspberry Pi useful? • Is it for Electric DIY kits for the GEEK? • Blinking LED,Programable Robots..etc • What we should use Raspberry Pi for business? • Any solutions/thoughts/ideas for IoT?
TRY AS AUDIO RENDERER • Almost audio renderer and Renderer OS works fine on Raspberry Pi • Now latest Raspbian supports many USB-DAC devices with not-recompiling-kernel • be careful to noise..often makes annoyed.
CASE:RYUKYU BANK • Ryukyu Bank had used ‘Cable Broadcastings’ for their branch bank music streaming system. • Now they have replaced it with Raspberry Pi- based streaming systems and broadcast the musics from their central information center to all the branches and plans to broadcast original music..etc
ROBOTS • ROBOTS is hobby using Raspberry Pi • RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Programable Robot work fine with Raspberry Pi and Eben loves it. • Lego Mindstorm also works with Raspberry Pi • Using it for the business is a few - but good.
CASE:FUTUREAGRI • Kabaya-san has dropped out a biggest manufacturer company to decide the farmer.. • but it is very hard work for him to do that and feel very difficult to employ someone for his help so he decided using the robot. • He says ‘Raspberry Pi is very cheap and powerful!’
TINY BUSINESS USE • Tiny business use is for the beginner getting used the business solution and learning how it works. • Almost is like ‘hobby’ though you can try those solutions and have the experience ‘crash and build’ again and again with the cheap Raspberry Pi • Sure,almost should be used on ‘x86’ systems ;)
CASE:PIZERO CLUSTER • Koichi Nakamuka,CEO of Idein made Raspberry Pi Zero Cluster unit for ‘tiny’ HPC. • Eben is very interested in such a very small cluster and gave the zeros to him fulfill PiZeros on his units.
AS A SERVER • Raspberry Pi 3 works great as internet server. • mail,web,dns.. • storages • Almost has the packages for Raspberry Pi that works fine.
CASE:RASPBERRY PI SITE • Raspberry Pi website system was blogged in this april fool. • We thought it was ‘fool’ but NOT. • hosted by mythic-beasts.com a UK cloud carrer. • details: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/serving- raspberry-pi-3-launch-raspberry-pi-3/
MINIO CLOUD STORAGE • Minio is S3-compatible storage that can work on Raspberry Pi. • it is recommended to work on Raspberry Pi 2 or upper. • Very easy to install the server. • run the script and check how to upload the file.
NETWORK DEVICES • There are many 3G/LTE dongle/Wifi boards support Raspberry Pi • there are some solutions using Raspberry Pis as a network devices using mobile network. • Live camera ( with Raspberry Pi Cameras) • You can buy some solution kit from those vendors.
CASE:SORACOM AIR • Soracom is Japanese IoT-specific mobile career using the programable/UI control management system.they planing to expand their business over 130 countries. • it can suspend/resume on the cloud • its speeds can control on the cloud
LATEST UPDATES
HOW ABOUT PIZERO • Pi Zero is still tightly supplied 1unit/person/order each vendors.ton of demands makes crazy.. • There are 4 distributors for PiZero planing to add more resellers when ‘claiming down’.. • Adafruits,Pimoroni,PiHut and Microcenter. • Note it is NOT by Element14 and RS components
ROLLING UPDATES • Raspberry Pi is very old - ARM11-based. • The foundation announces they will produce old raspberry pi 1 for a while for the education customers. • a few apps only work on RPi 1 • but some has already updated - Camera,RPi A+
UPDATE PI 3 HARDWARE(1) • Xenon Death Flash fixing - but it could works xenon closing the devices. • Pi 3 Compute module/Pi 3 model A+ - New! but haven’t released - CM already finished testing.
UPDATE PI 3 HARDWARE(2) • RPi 3 probably needs to have a heatsink for its CPU • it is over 85 degrees not having it. • 5/3A AC is needed but almost works 5/2-2.5A • fulfilled by USB dongles…
UPDATE SOFTWARE • Raspbian still release 32bit - it is only 30% higher than RPi 2 it is expected and not so faster using 64 bit • ‘Down-compatible’ is the first priority. • Engineers at the foundation they don’t plan 64bit because its speeds are not so improved.
CONCLUSION • Raspberry Pi is useful for your business. • wondering AGL is supported (but it is for developers) • might be better factory/business ‘bearable’ boards. • There are some good case with tiny computing!
THANKS Masafumi Ohta mail:masafumi@pid0.org tweet masafumiohta
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