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by erulabs 1654 days ago
Ack! We were excited to see this. While not exactly the same, we're building (& shipping!) an RPi CM4 SATA carrier board as well, in the PiBox (https://pibox.io/). Just finishing up the final details of the metal case and shipping out the first circuit boards this morning!

I hope we'll see a huge increase in is-actually-a-real-computer-running-real-software IoT devices once the supply-chain issues start to get resolved. At any rate, we think there is a very bright future for home-hosting and IoT!
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pastudan 1654 days ago
Other PiBox / KubeSail cofounder here. I put in an enormous amout of time into designing around components that can be easily sourced and are stocked regularly. A good example of this is the SL2.1A USB hub we use. The datasheet is in Chinese, but after testing it on several prototypes, we saw great reliability for 1/10th the cost. And its always in stock. Currently Microchip USB hub chips are either out of stock everywhere, or cost $5+, which doesn't make sense for low-cost Pi accessories.

The only issue we still face is sourcing actual Raspberry Pi compute modules. There's very little we have control over there.

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CameronNemo 1654 days ago
There are rk3566 based replacements for the rpi cm4. Radxa CM3 and Pine64 SOQuartz.
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braginini 1654 days ago
I think that Wiretrustee network might be something to support in Kubesail as an app. We could have a look into the integration possibilities.

Give it a shot :)

https://github.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee

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braginini 1654 days ago
Awesome project, guys! Best of luck with the further development.

P.S. Wiretrustee Author

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pastudan 1654 days ago
Thank you! I'm sorry to see this project give up, but I completely understand how painful the supply chain is right now
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