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Raspberry Pi

Guide Home Automation 

Migrate Home Assistant to Argon One M.2 SSD

12th July 202121st December 2021 Martin 12 Comments Home Assistant, Home Automation, Raspberry Pi

Now that my previous issues with the Argon ONE M.2 case have been resolved, I’m able to finally put the

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Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT: Responding to Pi Foundation

17th June 202117th June 2021 Martin 0 Comments PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

On 17th June 2021, Jeff Geerling released a video showing his experiences with the new PoE+ HAT. His experiences are

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Reviews Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Review – Part 2: Problems

8th June 20214th May 2022 Martin 17 Comments PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

In Part 1 of this review series, I looked at some high-level changes of the new Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT.

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Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT
Reviews 

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Review – Part 1

5th June 20218th October 2021 Martin 4 Comments Networks, PoE, PoE-HAT, Raspberry Pi

On 24th May 2021, Eben Upton announced the Raspberry Pi PoE+HAT on the Raspberrypi.org Blog. Given the challenges experienced and

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Cooler Master Pi Case 40
Case Reviews Comparisons Cooler Master 

Cooler Master Pi CASE 40 for Raspberry Pi 4 (GPIO WARNING!)

7th March 202121st October 2021 Martin 6 Comments Case Review, Raspberry Pi, stressberry, Testing

Update 21 October 2021: Cooler Master have released a revised version of this case without, the Pi-Case-40-v2. This addresses the

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Raspberry Pi 4 with Blue WiFi symbol overlay
Comparisons Troubleshooting 

Raspberry Pi WiFi Performance Revisited

21st February 202121st February 2021 Martin 0 Comments Raspberry Pi, Testing, WiFi

Back in 2019, I attempted to characterise the impact on WiFi performance of various different Raspberry Pi 4 cases. The

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Argon One M.2 SSD Case for Raspberry Pi
Argon Forty Case Reviews Comparisons Reviews 

Argon ONE M.2 SSD Case for Raspberry Pi 4 Review

23rd January 202120th June 2021 Martin 16 Comments Case Review, HTPC, Raspberry Pi, stressberry, Testing

Latest Status – 20 June 2021: I’ve completed a review of an updated M.2 board. See the review here. Following

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Case Reviews Comparisons Reviews 

The Raspberry Pi Product That Shouldn’t Exist

31st December 202031st December 2020 Martin 0 Comments Case Review, Raspberry Pi, Stress, stressberry, Testing

When the Raspberry Pi 4 originally launched I wrote about how when enclosed in the official case sitting idle on

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Raspberry Pi4 Connected to SSD via USB3
Guide 

Raspberry Pi4 USB3.0 Storage Performance

22nd June 20203rd March 2022 Martin 0 Comments Benchmarking, Raspberry Pi

The ability to boot from USB3.0 storage devices attached to the Raspberry Pi4 has been long anticipated. On 17 June

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219 Design Case - Developer Mode
219 Design Case Reviews Reviews 

219 Design Raspberry Pi 4 3D Printed Case

30th March 202031st March 2020 Martin 0 Comments Case Review, Raspberry Pi, Stress, stressberry, Testing

I was contacted by Abe McKay, Mechanical Engineer at 219 Design to see if I was interested in testing their

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