Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

So there's no reason why people cannot build their own Raspberry Pi 5 WLAN Pi or build a carrier board CM5.

But as far as units that we are going to assemble and distribute, for the moment, we're staying with CM4 and Raspberry Pi 4.

Anything else that was added in that new image?

Yes, lots of things.

We are the Automatic Ripping Machine show now.

Well, I wanted to pile on and mention that I once got it running on an 8 gig Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu server, a USB hard drive and a USB Blu-ray drive.

DVDs took about a week and it never finished a Blu-ray.

You know, I can almost do a week.

Ich hab's wieder 'n bisschen durcheinander gebracht.

Ähm, der Raspberry Pi wird teurer, und zwar auch die Preise der zwei-Gigabyte-Version, äh, von Raspberry Pi 5 und Raspberry Pi 4.

Muss schon sagen, mittlerweile ist das, ist das wirklich nicht mehr schön.

Ähm, und, äh, hier frag ich mich dann halt auch über Sinn oder Unsinn von 'nem Raspberry Pi.

Das ist natürlich nicht sehr schön und auch 'n bissl, ähm, ja, nerviger und komplizierter.

Aber, ähm, ja, von daher klar, Raspberry Pi, ist 'ne, ist 'ne wunderbare Sache, a-aber er ist in kein-- es steht in keinem Verhältnis mehr zu dem, was, ähm, das Gerät bietet, ne.

Das heißt, äh, wären jetzt für 'n Raspberry Pi 4 mit zwei Gigabyte, zwei Gigabyte, und da kann man eigentlich schon gar nichts mehr mit anfangen, zumindest nicht im, äh, im, im, im Nutzungsbereich, ja.

Steuerbereich klar, da reichen die zwei Gigabyte, okay.

Turning finally to hardware, the beloved Raspberry Pi single-board computer is about to get more expensive once again.

Starting from October 2026, the price tag for a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 will jump to $6750, a more than 50% increase since its initial release.

Much of this is down to persistently high costs for memory components, which have shown little sign of easing despite increased global demand for AI-ready hardware.

Demand from educators, hobbyists and even businesses means there's still a strong market, but price rises may put some projects out of reach.

I'm going to try to make up a home node here with All-Star Link using a Redivis RT95 mobile radio.

along with an all-scan URI-125 interface using a Raspberry Pi 4, and tried to do a custom cable from the RJ45 connector into the 6-pin mini-DIN connector to match the interface.

Just wondering if anybody else has ever tried anything like that out there.

All right.

Yeah.

And then the Raspberry Pi 4 is just I'm using as an octopi still.

I think it's time to update it again.

Every week.