I just ordered the La Potato. I think that these boards will be around for awhile. I read about the guy who started the company. He's actually not even that interested in making money right now. It's more about creating open-source hardware.This is going to be just a media box. Another one to look at is the new Orange Pi 5. I also just got that too on pre-order. (I'm Canadian- need stuff to do in winter). That one is a little rough because it just came out. A lot of people bought it though. It has the new RK3588S and on pre-order the 8 GB ram went for $80 US. I'm pretty happy with it. We're starting to approach desktop replacement with this chip and we could be there in the next couple generations.
My second Raspberry Pi 2 is also close to 10 years. Recently I upgraded it to FreeBSD to make networking faster, since it's a web server. So your experience is highly interested for me.
Thanks I have a lot of old single board machines that are pretty much scrap now days because of a lack of decent OS's. I just bought the Potato version of this board, haven't received it yet but the price was right at 20 bucks and another 20 for the 32 gig hard drive module off Amazon. Got the board from Aliexpress so it will take some time to get her via the slow boat from China. I love the little single boards for just experimenting with. I have several beagle bone blacks that I regularly play around with even have one with a small screen so it is portable but pretty much useless running Linux because of the speed and screen size . Had one running a 7 inch screen but it got walked on and that was that.
Yes. The clip on heat sink is a bit too big to fit in one case I tried with cooling fans. But a plain vanilla RP2 case works fine. It uses less power than an RP, so a cooling fan shouldn’t be needed.
Are there ways to connect cameras to this board without just using usb? Could time lapse programming be done within this or automation of taking video?
It's Debian Linux at the end of the day. Ditch the MacWinBerry OS, run the boards on Armbian and watch your future proofing fears fade away. If I pulled out my 2009 Compal JHL90 laptop and installed the latest version of Mint on it, it would run - we know it will not run the latest Windows - Why place this Windows type fear on SBCs running linux? (The libre boards are 4 and 5 years old - don't you know this?l Focus more on the Linux of things and stop this Raspian is god mentality. You bought an alternative board with more options than any proprietary Pi Board will ever have and you don't see or understand that. (You seemed shocked that a Linux board runs Linux). There are differences between Arm processors so expect them as you accept them to be between Intel and AMD (they aren't pin for pin equivalents but run the same instruction set). I have 3 Lepotato boards and 2 Renegade boards all blazing along with 32gb eMMC modules - No Pi has this option. Get the modules from LoveRPI. Each board has it's own AC600/BT USB dongle (Not all are currently using them) with the RTL8821CU chipset - they work in Armbian but do not on a Pi3 running the latest WinMacBerry OS - I guess that Raspi folks aren't about supporting alternative hardware via timely kernel and firmware updates...
I forgot to add that these boards came into being via Kickstarter campaigns several years ago. The goal was to take on the Pi 3 - there were no Pi 3 b+ or Pi 4 boards at the time, they clearly exceeded the Pi 3 b+ in performance. Including Wifi/BT on the board requires FCC testing and approval so with that stated you can understand it is/was a cost cutting measure. The form factor is Pi the internals are TV set top box components and these boxes predate any Pi that has ever hit the market (we all had roku and fire tv boxes and other lesser known brands long before a Pi anything hit the market - get it?). The common components found on TV networked set top boxes that are not found on a Pi are IR receivers and internal storage - when the guys at Pi decide to grant your wishes to have these (IR and eMMC) don't fall into the thinking that they are real innovators - They market their version of Linux products to windows users and no more and it's funny to see guys on this platform regurgitate these win only instructions using 3 hundred additional apps to flash, manage and operate a SBC that us Linux users do not need - you guys are hilarious demonstrating your multiple apps required technique. Cut Mama Pi's apron strings, get an inexpensive laptop to run a Linux Desktop OS and soon after doing so every SBC on the market will become second nature to you all - no need for all this lack of hand holding fear being disguised as a failure to future proof or lack of support. (In short - Linux manages Linux extremely well so get on with it)...
Raspi democratized SBC by making them affordable and easy to use. I'm glad they did, otherwise you wouldn't have anything like Libre. Having options is a good thing. Introducing boards with easy to use tools is a good thing. The future proofing a board is a concern, but it's yet to be seen with Libre boards. I don't know.
I have a Libre Renegade (4gb) and it works like a champ. Planning on getting 3 more to set up a home test lab for network training.
same. I have one set up with octopi and plan to get more for various projects. Super happy with the renegade.
Recently you could buy RPi 4 8Gb for $75 in Bay Area. However, it's out of stock again. I will send you an updated when available.
I just ordered the La Potato. I think that these boards will be around for awhile. I read about the guy who started the company. He's actually not even that interested in making money right now. It's more about creating open-source hardware.This is going to be just a media box. Another one to look at is the new Orange Pi 5. I also just got that too on pre-order. (I'm Canadian- need stuff to do in winter). That one is a little rough because it just came out. A lot of people bought it though. It has the new RK3588S and on pre-order the 8 GB ram went for $80 US. I'm pretty happy with it. We're starting to approach desktop replacement with this chip and we could be there in the next couple generations.
i was gonna buy a libre le potato but the libre renegade is way faster and only $10 more
My second Raspberry Pi 2 is also close to 10 years. Recently I upgraded it to FreeBSD to make networking faster, since it's a web server. So your experience is highly interested for me.
Thanks I have a lot of old single board machines that are pretty much scrap now days because of a lack of decent OS's. I just bought the Potato version of this board, haven't received it yet but the price was right at 20 bucks and another 20 for the 32 gig hard drive module off Amazon. Got the board from Aliexpress so it will take some time to get her via the slow boat from China. I love the little single boards for just experimenting with. I have several beagle bone blacks that I regularly play around with even have one with a small screen so it is portable but pretty much useless running Linux because of the speed and screen size . Had one running a 7 inch screen but it got walked on and that was that.
I also can't decide between Le Potato and Renegade. People claim that Le Potato has better support. So I target it first.
$280 which is nuts and that's Amazon so it socks because I wanted to get 3 and teach my kids but at this price we can only get 1
For a Raspi? I wanted one, but get a Libre board. It's pretty similar for a fraction of the price.
Can you mount the Libre board into a Raspberry case? The mounting holes look very close.
Never tried to. The size is similar, but I think the IO is laid out different.
@@Atmosera- I have a Libre Renegade working in a Rpi 3 case.
Yes. The clip on heat sink is a bit too big to fit in one case I tried with cooling fans. But a plain vanilla RP2 case works fine. It uses less power than an RP, so a cooling fan shouldn’t be needed.
Are there ways to connect cameras to this board without just using usb? Could time lapse programming be done within this or automation of taking video?
I think it's just USB. I don't think it has a camera port like the Raspi. I plugged a USB Camera into mine and it worked fine.
…if it only had wifi, and perhaps connectors for video and pi-cam
Agreed. Very underrated
Out of stock with Amazon
It's Debian Linux at the end of the day. Ditch the MacWinBerry OS, run the boards on Armbian and watch your future proofing fears fade away. If I pulled out my 2009 Compal JHL90 laptop and installed the latest version of Mint on it, it would run - we know it will not run the latest Windows - Why place this Windows type fear on SBCs running linux? (The libre boards are 4 and 5 years old - don't you know this?l
Focus more on the Linux of things and stop this Raspian is god mentality. You bought an alternative board with more options than any proprietary Pi Board will ever have and you don't see or understand that. (You seemed shocked that a Linux board runs Linux). There are differences between Arm processors so expect them as you accept them to be between Intel and AMD (they aren't pin for pin equivalents but run the same instruction set).
I have 3 Lepotato boards and 2 Renegade boards all blazing along with 32gb eMMC modules - No Pi has this option. Get the modules from LoveRPI. Each board has it's own AC600/BT USB dongle (Not all are currently using them) with the RTL8821CU chipset - they work in Armbian but do not on a Pi3 running the latest WinMacBerry OS - I guess that Raspi folks aren't about supporting alternative hardware via timely kernel and firmware updates...
I forgot to add that these boards came into being via Kickstarter campaigns several years ago. The goal was to take on the Pi 3 - there were no Pi 3 b+ or Pi 4 boards at the time, they clearly exceeded the Pi 3 b+ in performance. Including Wifi/BT on the board requires FCC testing and approval so with that stated you can understand it is/was a cost cutting measure. The form factor is Pi the internals are TV set top box components and these boxes predate any Pi that has ever hit the market (we all had roku and fire tv boxes and other lesser known brands long before a Pi anything hit the market - get it?). The common components found on TV networked set top boxes that are not found on a Pi are IR receivers and internal storage - when the guys at Pi decide to grant your wishes to have these (IR and eMMC) don't fall into the thinking that they are real innovators - They market their version of Linux products to windows users and no more and it's funny to see guys on this platform regurgitate these win only instructions using 3 hundred additional apps to flash, manage and operate a SBC that us Linux users do not need - you guys are hilarious demonstrating your multiple apps required technique.
Cut Mama Pi's apron strings, get an inexpensive laptop to run a Linux Desktop OS and soon after doing so every SBC on the market will become second nature to you all - no need for all this lack of hand holding fear being disguised as a failure to future proof or lack of support. (In short - Linux manages Linux extremely well so get on with it)...
Raspi democratized SBC by making them affordable and easy to use. I'm glad they did, otherwise you wouldn't have anything like Libre. Having options is a good thing. Introducing boards with easy to use tools is a good thing. The future proofing a board is a concern, but it's yet to be seen with Libre boards. I don't know.
Only the same specs as the pi3. Not a good deal.