A relatively underwhelming ARM development board that was upgraded to a very reasonably performing quad-core CPU in February 2015 and got built-in Wi-Fi in February 2016 (last updated in 2020 with incremental improvements), and which eventually became a entire family of devices, from the Pi Pico MCU to aarch64
boards.
Resources
Survival Tips
Use vnc4server
, not tightvncserver
If you’re using an older version of Raspbian and want to access your board via VNC, you should grab a copy of the vnc4server
sources from Ubuntu and rebuild it on the Pi. vnc4server
has much less latency and performs much better overall, at least for my use cases:
# on a Ubuntu box
$ mkdir tmp; cd tmp
$ apt-get source vnc4server
# find the source tree and rsync it across to the Pi
# ...time passes...
# on the Pi, cd into the source tree and do:
$ debuild -us -uc
# ...a lot of time passes...
$ cd ..; sudo apt-get install xbase-clients x11-apps; sudo dpkg -i vnc4server*.deb