Posted by kristianpaul 5 days ago
If I had a 3D printer I’d build this one for sure. Or the 3D printer would sit in my junk corner. One or the other.
neat product but what a garbage company that was
For about 5 years before Android/IPhone, I used a nokia phone that opened with the screen in the middle of a split querty keyboard on the phone... that thing was perfect for notes/text. I really wouldn't mind something like that or even this device as long as the text could be set to something reasonable for my poor vision to use. I have to max out my accessibility/text settings on android and that's a stretch at times (also exposes so main UI failings).
I would shove any other cm5 compatible device into this than the actual cm5.
It has no h264 encoder or decoder or other encoders or decoders.
I know this from watching lots of people try to use it on 3d printers and discovering that their camera streams now take tons of CPU[1] after "upgrading" from a pi 4b to a cm5.
In any case, from just about any perspective, you are better off shoving a rockchip based cm5 compatible board in this.
[1] the commonly-used logitech cameras used to do h264 streams, but they removed the h264 encoder chips in all of their models a few years back, without changing any of the model numbers. All the current ones are like yuvy420 at 5fps or mjpeg at 30fps. Even for something like the mx brio. But for things like the c920,if they are old enough, they do h264, and if they are new, they don't.
[0] https://github.com/TheMediocritist/beepy_rp2040
[1] https://blog.beeper.com/2023/05/16/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry/
[2] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/546865-REG/Logitech_9...
Can you move smoothly at all angles with it, well enough to use the desktop GUI?