
Re: Pinky and the Brain !!!
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Good news for earthbound Pi-tinkerers hoping to get their code into orbit: a follow-up to 2015's Astro Pi is due to head to the International Space Station (ISS) this year. Time has moved on a bit since the Principia mission of Tim Peake where the first units were installed aboard the orbiting outpost. While over 54,000 …
I know it is probably not exactly what you are looking for, but I like the "heatsink case pi 4", which is two blocks of aluminium and 4 hexagonal screws that you sandwich the Pi between. Although to be fair, it is more of an optimal heat sink than an optimal case. Plug the above quoted words into your search engine of choice and click on images to see what I mean.
OK, how many of you read that Peak and the Principia mission was 6 years ago and did a double-take that it was that long ago already?
Good to hear the update is going to happen though - those old uSD cards (or indeed are they SD cards?) must be showing as much wear and tear as the rest of the ISS is at the moment...
Batteries? You mean this cutting edge of technology doesn't have USB charging sockets? Where did all those trillions go? I mean they could have commandeered Elon's Tesla launch, chucked Starman away and just plugged 'em into the dashboard. But don't even think of cannabalising the Tesla's SD storage 'cos ...
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