Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I don’t have much, but I’ll try to put something down. Let’s get started!
I went to the workshop again this week with a list of things I wanted to figure out how to do, starting with getting TightVNC to switch users. Nope. TightVNC servers are tied to a single log-in session. Without good communication, that piece of information took between thirty and sixty minutes to figure out. We did get a copy of the heater program working the Pi at 100%. Before I re-run the temperature experiment and risk damaging the case, I have another side project I want to try figuring out.
I have a friend I haven’t seen in a while and he lives in another State. I want to show off my ghost case (Now pictured), but I want to call on the Pi and hold up a mirror so he can see it with its own ‘eye.’
My first thought was to just download Discord and call it good. Oops. The Raspberry Pi may be 64 bits, and Discord want to run on 64 bits, but Raspbian doesn’t exist on 64 bits. I found a decent-looking forum post [LINK] that discusses 64 bit computation on the Pi 3 series. Long story short: 32 bit Pi computing has inertia. They don’t make 64 bit Raspbian because it would cost more utility than the few who seek it out would gain from it; it simply isn’t worth it for an official, 64 bit Raspbian to exist.
Jumping back in time to before I found the article, and I had just given up in the short term, I looked around to find that there are operating systems that can run on the Pi that use all 64 bits, but several comments seem to describe the wanting nature of either the setup process or trying to squeeze any additional performance. My thought is that such operating systems are often not optimized specifically for the Pi and take up what benefit they otherwise would have had with additional overhead. The extra bits are there if you need them and know how to use them.
At this point, a Discord client is looking like a no-go, but I did try to get a call set up in the browser. I haven’t gotten it to work yet, as I need to figure out how to get my Pi Camera and Blue Yeti to play nicely with the Discord site in the Chromium browser. It’s just something with the permissions, I hope. I remember seeing something about the Yeti not giving Linux a single thought in its advertising, but I think I remember seeing it show up in the Discord web page.
Final Question: Does anyone actually know if the Raspberry Pi will melt through a PLA case?