[LUNA] Oddball question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Any of the USB ports on the RPi ? Just checking ....


On 08/23/14 17:05, Allen Krell wrote:
>   There are two ways to power it.  You can use a micro-USB charger like most
> any cell phone would use. Or, on the current generation board, you can back
> power it through the regular USB port.   I have a powered USB hub back
> powering both my Raspberry PI and my USB drive.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:45 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> What kind of PSU's are there for the RPi, I poked around a bit & couldn't
>> find anything .... I don't care about a case & am up to my ears in CAT5
>> cables ....
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/23/14 15:36, Allen Krell wrote:
>>
>>> Raspberry PI is great if you want something small.   It could do ntp, file
>>> serving, anything reasonable you want it to do.   The only drawback is
>>> making it neat looking.  By the time you buy a power supply, a case, and a
>>> CAT 5 cable to your router, you end up spending some money.   If you want
>>> to buy local, gigaparts has them in stock.
>>>
>>> I haven't looked in the past few years, but I had toyed with the idea of
>>> setting up my own NTP stratum server based off a GPS signal.  I couldn't
>>> find a low cost way a few years ago, there may be something newer now.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:02 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> .... I just got done upgrading my daily driver. I am going to re-purpose
>>>> the old one into a monowall box. However, the old one is also currently
>>>> the
>>>> ntpd server for my LAN. I might be able to podge another box together to
>>>> do
>>>> that job, assuming some apparently non-functional hardware is really just
>>>> playing possum, or .... I could drop <$40.00 on a Raspberry Pi B+ from
>>>> NewEgg & use that. it is running some sort of Linux, either directly
>>>> (Debian or arch images are available) or its own OS which I think is
>>>> Linux
>>>> derived. I figure I should be able to get ntpd going, especially on the
>>>> Debian & use that box as an ntpd server for the network .... Whaddaya
>>>> think, good idea, all wet, something else .... TIA for advice &/or
>>>> opinions
>>>> ....
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>           William A. Mahaffey III
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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.