POWER AND PRIVACY

There’s still a couple of first generation Raspberry Pis keeping things ticking over here at Towers. These older models are great – just look at our Pi – but lots of projects (such as Mycroft) will require more CPU power, so for a lot of projects you’ll see at least a Pi 3 is recommended. If you have a Pi 4, you can even run a instance that can handle a few callers with no problems. The trouble is, these later models require much more power, so it’s important to use a power supply (ideally the official model) that can provide a steady 5.1V supply at up to 2.5A. Cheap USB power supplies can cause all kinds of hard-to-diagnose problems, so if something’s behaving oddly, the power is a good thing to check.