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by lelanthran149 days ago |
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upvoteby aa-jv149 days ago|
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ClockworkPi's uConsole comes pretty close:

https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole

I have a couple of these - they work great for dev systems and its occasionally fun to load up PICO8 and have a bit of a bash..

I also have a couple of OpenPandora's but I stopped using them when I got a Steam Deck.

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upvoteby jeswin149 days ago|
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I suppose you can DIY this with the RK3588 - but I haven't used it myself.

I had previously experimented with the CM5, and found out that you can't really use it for anything portable without attaching a heavy battery. With its excellent software stack, CM5 could have been everywhere if they had gotten this right.

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upvoteby awjlogan149 days ago|
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The Raspberry Pi SoCs optimised for cost rather than power consumption (or maximum performance). This is an engineering trade off, not a criticism. More power partitioning requires more area, more complexity in design and verification, and more expensive external components to support the internal voltage domains.

Another comment mentions the RP2xxx microcontrollers. If you look at those, they are optimised for compute power and data throughput rather than low power operation. I think it's a reasonable choice - the Pico boards are pretty sturdy and the original target is people running MicroPython, Arduino, etc rather than looking for µA standby currents.

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upvoteby Ciantic149 days ago|
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It seems to be a really hard problem. Deep sleep even with Raspberry Pi Zero and Pico product lines has been problematic. I hoped they would make Pico 2 deep sleep better, but it still needs external deep sleep RTC like DS3231 to make it truly useful.
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upvoteby rbanffy149 days ago|
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I miss netbooks as well.
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