Raspberry Pi Projects

At the time when the Rapberry Pi was published I was early intrested in. One idea I had was to have a media center PC in pocket size. Also I was intrested to have a "private cloud". So I started to setup a owncloud server on a Raspberry Pi for me. I expected from a Raspberry Pi 1B (no plus) a worse performance as it was in the end. For my printer I aslo needed a network printing function, because my printer does not support network printing. Therefore I setup cups a printserver and later using Sane backend a scanserver. Unfortunately there was less storage space for the cloud, because anything was on a USB stick with only 8GB. At my computer store I looked for some other solutions and found the chinese concurrent Bananna Pi. More precisely I was inerested in the Bananna Pi M1. I switched with all my applications to it, because it was faster and I can connect a normal SSD via SATA, which is also faster and has mor storage space. The Raspberry Pi 1B continue thier work as a backup solution and a webradio. I will forward these topics on subpages. The Bananna Pis have run only two years and then got replaced. The services went combined (using a VM to simulate having two PCs) to a normal x86 Computer. The Raspberry Pi 1b died 2020 after six years of use. But also then a Raspberry Pi was a replacement. Both software projects went to a Raspberry Pi 3b (also no plus). It was before the solution for the pocket size media center. As the media centers need is continued, I bought a modern Raspberry Pi 4b. Some days later I also need a portable Access Point. And also for this I bought a Raspberry Pi 4b.

A Picture of a Raspberry Pi 1b, which hosted the cloud.

The set for the Banana Pi, which later hosted the cloud. In the middle top is the Pi and below the SSD. The special cable (blue / red) was needed for using the SATA connector. Just the OS started from the 8GB SD card. Therefor it was enough storage space. Other data was stored on the SSD.