[arm-allstar] Pi3 Sale, cases, memory, etc.

[Fred Hillhouse]

That is a nice little case. My biggest concern about plastic cases is the
potential for developing a static charge along the surface and having it
eventually zap the device. The Zero is nice and small and quite possibly it
would just be slid into a pocket which could kill it. However, metal cases
don't work well with wireless on-board.

I picked up the Zero to be installed inside a radio with the sound card so
the case isn't important. I am hoping to be able to test how it works
shortly.

Best regards,
Fred N7FMH

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Hillhouse [mailto:fmhillhouse at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 1:17 PM
To: 'Willem Schreuder'
Subject: RE: [arm-allstar] Pi3 Sale, cases, memory, etc.

That is a nice little case. My biggest concern about plastic cases is the
potential for developing a static charge along the surface and having it
eventually zap the device. The Zero is nice and small and quite possibly it
would just be slid into a pocket which could kill it. However, metal cases
don't work well with wireless on-board.

I picked up the Zero to be installed inside a radio with the sound card so
the case isn't important. I am hoping to be able to test how it works
shortly.

Best regards,
Fred N7FMH



-----Original Message-----
From: Willem Schreuder [mailto:willem at prinmath.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 11:08 AM
To: "Fred Hillhouse via arm-allstar"
Cc: 'David McGough'; Fred Hillhouse
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Pi3 Sale, cases, memory, etc.

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, "Fred Hillhouse via arm-allstar" wrote:

> The RPi0-Ws does not have any cases yet.

I have the Adafruit Pi Zero case
   https://www.adafruit.com/product/3252
which works great.

I only use the Pi Zero W since IMHO a computer without IP connectivity is
pretty useless.  It works fine for the right application, but if you dislike
needing to use dongles to get multiple USB connections or if performance is
an issue, the rPi3 is a better choice.

73 -Willem


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