Raspberry Pi

Hardware Raspberry Pi

How much power does a Raspberry Pi 4 draw?

Interesting question, no? In preparation for some of my hardware projects, and since I still haven’t received my CM4’s 🤬, I needed some estimation for what the real power draw is likely to be. Yes, there are spec sheets, but they are vague because the actual draw depends on the Read more…

By Christian, 2 months2 months ago

Make Raspberry Pi 4 Fast

This is total overkill. But it’s fun and makes the Pi 4 quite zippy! Here’s a description of my setup on one of the Raspberry Pi 4’s around here. I’m using the following parts in addition to a Pi 4: 52Pi Ice Tower heatsink Noctua NF-A4x10 5V, 3-pin (40x10mm, Brown) Read more…

By Christian, 2 months2 months ago

KiCAD Raspberry Pi

KiCAD 6 on Raspberry Pi OS

Ok, I lied. KiCAD 5.99, which will become 6 sometime in 2021! Nightly builds are produced for a bunch of platforms but not for Raspberry Pi OS. I needed KiCAD 5.99 to work with CM4IO schematics. While there are instructions provided for Linux, the prereqs aren’t documented best I can Read more…

By Christian, 2 months2 months ago