[HN Gopher] Wiretrustee CM4 Stata Board (Discontinued)
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Wiretrustee CM4 Stata Board (Discontinued)
Author : randywaterhouse
Score : 17 points
Date : 2021-12-13 20:07 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| randywaterhouse wrote:
| Posted this after receiving an email from the Wiretrustee team
| this afternoon. Unfortunately it seems their RPi CM4 SATA board
| has been cancelled (supply chain!). Full text of the email
| appears below.
|
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|
| After you haven't heard from us since August, we are calling you
| with some news today. It is with a heavy heart that we have to
| announce that we have stopped working on the Wiretrustee CM4 SATA
| board. It was a very exciting time for all of us in the team
| during which we received a lot of support from all of you. Almost
| 10,000 followers of our Crowd Supply page show that we were not
| completely wrong.
|
| But in the end, we don't see any improvements in the current
| situation of the global electronic components supply chain. So
| far, there's no telling when we might be able to offer you the
| board at an acceptable price.
|
| To offer you at least something, we have decided to open-source
| all the design files that we created so far. You will find them
| soon on GitHub under the following link:
| https://github.com/wiretrustee/cm4-sata-board
|
| In the meantime, we have fully dedicated ourselves to another
| project and further expanded the P2P network developed for the
| board. We will now continue to pursue this with full force and
| extend it with further functionalities to a full open-source
| alternative for traditional VPN.
|
| We would be very happy if you support us in this project and
| leave us a star on GitHub.
| https://github.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Frustratingly, they have obviously not open sourced all design
| files. The only similar file formats present in that repo are:
| PDF, DXF, and SVG. No source files!
| braginini wrote:
| We will post the design files soon. We just need to organize
| them a bit.
|
| P.S. I'm a Wiretrustee author
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Okay great! Just wanted to make sure. I've recently used
| the CERN-OHL-P license for my hardware designs, you might
| want to consider that.
|
| Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the supply chain
| problems, very frustrating.
| kelnos wrote:
| Got their announcement email this morning, and I'm really
| disappointed. I don't particularly want to buy a full CM4 I/O
| board and plug in a 4-port SATA card, and have a giant bare board
| with no case. I want something purpose-designed and integrated,
| with a bit of polish.
|
| From their email:
|
| > _In the meantime, we have fully dedicated ourselves to another
| project and further expanded the P2P network developed for the
| board. We will now continue to pursue this with full force and
| extend it with further functionalities to a full open-source
| alternative for traditional VPN._
|
| I'm having a little trouble parsing this, but this sounds... not
| all that interesting to me, unfortunately.
| braginini wrote:
| Originally, the project was about hardware with storage
| capabilities and a software layer that would allow to access
| your data without configuring a router, leveraging Wireguard
| peer-to-peer capabilities. That is what the second part is
| about - the networking software.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| s/stata/sata in the title
| erulabs wrote:
| 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!
| braginini wrote:
| Awesome project, guys! Best of luck with the further
| development.
|
| P.S. Wiretrustee Author
| pastudan wrote:
| Thank you! I'm sorry to see this project give up, but I
| completely understand how painful the supply chain is right
| now
| pastudan wrote:
| 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.
| braginini wrote:
| 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
| geerlingguy wrote:
| I tested a prototype of their board and was impressed [1], but
| can understand why they couldn't get to production.
|
| At this point, I'm hopeful the Radxa Taco [2] will be a worthy
| replacement. It adds on 2.5 Gbps ethernet and two M.2 slots for
| an additional NVMe SSD and WiFi 6 (or other uses).
|
| [1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/wiretrustee-sata-
| pi-b...
|
| [2] https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm/radxa-taco.html
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