[geerlingguy]

A few of the most pertinent applications would be running an application at a live event, where you might run off battery / solar / small generator, and you don't have much of a power budget, but would still want to replicate a small K3s cluster setup locally for simplicity's sake. (I realize the irony of including Kubernetes in a line about simplicity...).

But in general, it would be more focused on a lower budget / lower power option for exploring small cluster ideas. Much more fun to test things out or learn on a platform that costs $600 all-in and doesn't suck down a few hundred watts of power all day, than to buy four used PCs that use more power, take up a little more space, and cost maybe a little less, all-in.

It is a niche product, but nowhere near as niche as the Seaberry board I showed last week :)

[JKCalhoun]

I'm going to sheepishly wonder out loud if too much sponsored content will be to Jeff's channel's long-term detriment. I would be excited too to have a popular channel growing and being offered these cool toys but I have also seen blow-back of late.

Perhaps it's just par for the course on HN though. Or perhaps we're missing the more down-in-the-kernel hobbyist Jeff.

[geerlingguy]

Don't worry, been doing my other stuff too, but this month for some reason all this gear showed up within a couple weeks and I wanted to make sure I gave it some air time before I go towards some more fun (to me) projects.

The key I think will be trying to make the blend be 'learning/teaching something new' along with finding the right way to fund it.

While I am extremely appreciative for every dollar that comes in through Patreon/GitHub Sponsors, the reality is that isn't enough (and except for maybe like 0.2% of creators/devs won't ever be) to cover all the bills. So I do need to work with more deep-pocketed sponsors from time to time.

It is a bit of a delicate balance, though, because it's easy to run the risk of being a hypocrite depending on who I work with and what projects I take on ;)

[cameron_b]

Cheers for this, I really enjoy the collaboration to play against the "big toys" Patrick has.

Maybe I missed it, but are there I2C or GPIO broken out for each module? I remember being really excited to the V1 Turing board in regard to the mashup potential with cluster-type things and the "Physical Computing" sensor / IO, but I didn't see anyone try to solder in those pins.

[geerlingguy]

Each board has a UART header exposed, and through the MCU it can be rebooted / flashed over the network. Full GPIO is only exposed in a 40 pin header on node 1, though.

[mysterydip]

Might be interesting combined with VMware's ARM hypervisor "fling" here https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition to make a toy "datacenter in a box", using the third node as a NAS datastore.