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<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">thanks for reporting back on your experiences there.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">I've also played around with the Raspberry Pi as the main interface for sub controls and monitoring. Rather than go using a standard desktop distribution I built my own based on the Automotive Grade Linux (<a href="https://www.automotivelinux.org/">https://www.automotivelinux.org/</a>), which is making its way into many car brands. Here's a shot of the UI with mocked up data: <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/YLqRpgRkBHLrrb3W8">https://photos.app.goo.gl/YLqRpgRkBHLrrb3W8</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">Its a low priority upgrade, but it would be nice to have a Tesla/SpaceX type user interface.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">Cheers,</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br>Sent: Aug 19, 2023 10:45 AM<br>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br>Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] I've got a Potato in my sub</p>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Le Potato, to be specific. It's a potential SBC replacement for the Raspberry Pi which is still difficult to obtain here in the USA due to chip shortages causing prices of the PI to soar over $100. At $35 the Potato has the same form-factor but a 64 bit processor as well as some other hardware upgrades that match or exceed the Raspberry Pi. Last year I spent many frustrating hours trying to get the Potato to work with a USB WIFI and configured as necessary to interface with my sensor inputs. This year a new OS revision has resolved all those issues and I have gotten the Potato configured as necessary rather easily using UBUNTU 22.04, making it a potential alternative to the PI. The only real negative I ran into was that it comes with GNOME desktop which is way too bulky, fat, and slow for the 2GB of memory that comes on the Potato board. I resolved that by installing Xfce instead which is a light-weight no frills GUI desktop.</div>
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