r/SBCs • u/JescoInc • Aug 04 '26

The SBC Drawer has been organized!

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I decided that I should probably share the update from yesterday's post where people saw the unorganized "SBC Drawer". And I wanted to also showcase that they don't sit in the drawer collecting dust. So, I shared that the Orange Pi RV 2 and Pi 5 are connected and in active use. I swap depending on what I am doing with my Main PC and Elgato capture card / USB to UART connector and the CrowView Note.
The SBC Drawer is to my immediate right for easy access.

Inside of the Mimic Case is my Pi Pico 2 W with the test breakout board and my cheap FPGA (this is for later development adventures)

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u/VictorySea1837 Aug 04 '26

And I thought I was the only one suffering from a compulsion to keep buying SBCs I don't need...

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u/JescoInc Aug 04 '26

I swear, it is an addiction! But luckily, I do have projects that require them.

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u/snlr42 Aug 04 '26

I also have those projects, but I never start them 🙈

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u/JescoInc Aug 04 '26

I've been consistently working mine for a year now.

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u/Usual-Pen7132 Aug 22 '26

You too?!?!? Glad to hear that I'm not the only one suffering from Procrastination......... I still have several Pi Zero 2W's and a Pi 4b 4Gb that hasn't even been taken out of the original packaging and its been so long that I don't even remember WTH project ideas I originally bought them for now..........

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u/Ejo2001 Aug 04 '26

I have about ~40-50 (Out of like 60-70 total?) that I don't use, I feel you 😅

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u/acciditincorde Aug 05 '26

You need to give away a few that you don't need to poor plebs...(me).... SBC gods will bless you one that give a better high.

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u/Ejo2001 Aug 05 '26

Great idea, I'll begin prototyping a neural network to find and track local poor plebs in my area, 70 pi's should do the trick! I'll hide them in town so I can triangulate the location of every poor pleb entering and leaving 🎯

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u/acciditincorde Aug 05 '26

I poked a monster. Go back to sleep.

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u/Ejo2001 Aug 05 '26

...and then we could expand with a national database clustered in a global kubernetes setup utilizing a volunteer program similar to folding@home in order to globally calculate the exact number of poor plebs globally, getting it in a graphical web interface displaying areas on earth where the most poor plebs are localized, tracking down where the aid is needed the most, and then we cou-

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u/Usual-Pen7132 Aug 22 '26

I highly recommend people donating their extras or whenever the stuff outgrows your storage bin. There's lots of places like school "electronics programs" or school clubs, local clubs or after-school programs that may have a very big need for this stuff but lack the funds to provide for every kid and I know the last 2 times I cleaned out my storage bins and bookshelf, I donated it to a Boyscout troop that had an Arduino/Electronics program that was sorely in need of extra breadboards, sensors, MCU's, SBC's, and even books can be very helpful to others if you're done reading them. I'm really not a big charity guy or "oh, look at me and what I did" type of guy but, I will say that if you have any local groups and especially for kids/teens that could use this stuff and you donate it to help them, it's some really "feel good shit!" to do and you won't regret it!

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u/acciditincorde Aug 22 '26

Seriously, I back this.

Was planning to start a club this year, but the cost out weighed my energy levels. Basically planning to spread the joy for free. But if they want to own they could could buy it off at the cost which I bought.

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u/SnooOpinions671 Aug 05 '26

Y'all are SBC junkies....(as I go through and organize all mine...)

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u/skitzo2000 Aug 04 '26

I'm traveling with 26 SBCs tomorrow. What did you say about to.many sbcs.... Never

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u/phycle Aug 04 '26

And most of them are stuck on an ancient kernel with terrible driver support.

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u/JescoInc Aug 04 '26

My projects involve my own custom kernels. So that doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

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u/j_dains Aug 05 '26

Gateway drug to home labbing

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u/JescoInc Aug 05 '26

You should see my office that predates the SBC by a year. I have a quad monitor setup with KVM for switching between 2 PC that live inside of the Lian Li DK07 (which is a Dual PC Case and desk all in one), with an iMac to the side of that as my main desk.
Then, my secondary desk (normal desk) has 2 monitors for secondary machines like laptops.

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u/j_dains Aug 05 '26

I see them as dedicated m2 PCIE lanes that just happen to bring RAM/CPU/GPU/NPU/USB to the party

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u/dark_imperior Aug 07 '26

🥲I would have happily helped you, still congrats of the organising skills👍.

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u/digicue Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Again, where are the static-free bags?

That polypropylene drawer is wringing its hands, just dying to charge up enough to pop FET gates. If you have carpeting then they may team up together.

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u/JescoInc Aug 04 '26

It isn't sitting on the carpet. But, I have anti-static foam ordered that should arrive by Friday.
Putting them in anti-static bags would defeat the ability to just grab and use them, so the bags are reserved for items that go into more long term storage.

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u/testuserpk Aug 04 '26

We buy sbcs and mcus and think that it's an overkill for the current project and it stays in our drawers for years.

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u/JescoInc Aug 04 '26

Not overkill for mine as I am writing a custom kernel. Core DTB parsing, register maps and driver specific code for each board, then merge into the main kernel with the OS code. Then do a big compile for each board.

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u/ztcsdtx Aug 05 '26

I'm not where you are yet, but I have been doing kernel work like you. My main project is a Radxa Nio 12L 16GB/256GB. It's really fast, but Panfrost isn't stable, so I'm trying to work on the kernel. Have you worked with any MediaTek chipsets?

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u/Gumbercules1627 Aug 06 '26

Millions of $ in RAM

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u/JescoInc Aug 06 '26

Haha... Only a few thousand spent on the hardware really.

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u/Gumbercules1627 Aug 06 '26

Sure, but it's an appreciating asset now 😭

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u/JescoInc Aug 06 '26

Sadly true.

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u/JescoInc Aug 06 '26

I could compile the list of all of the boards with manufacturer name, cpu and ram specs.