Anyone want a dead Raspberry Pi Zero W?

[kelper]

Are there any tinkerers who would like to have a dead Raspberry Pi Zero W?

It won't power up, no led's, nothing. Free to a good home. I was using it to log my TILT hydrometer over wifi. Apparently, they are repairable. There are no signs of damage or cracks.

Might appeal to a hobbyist, who knows?

 

[kelper]

Well, the new PI doesn't work either! I have ordered a new microSDHC card as this one seems to be unreadable and unformattable.

 

[kelper]

My original Pi is working after getting a new microSDHC card and flashing the image onto it and setting up the wifi. So I have a spare Pi.

 

[lupinehorror]

i've had a few microSD cards die in my 4, current, raspberry pi boards (all class 10). don't think they like the constant read/write that a pi server requires. for the money they are i'm not grumbling. i just have a good backup regime.

 

[kelper]

My laptop only has 30GB of storage so I have quite a lot of apps installed on a 32GB microSDHC card and its been in constant use for a year or so. But the one that failed was unbranded. I'll stick to SanDisk from now on.

 

[lupinehorror]

always sandisk or kingston for me.

 

[kelper]

I had trouble flashing the latest download from tilthydrometer so I used an older version. Got some error about literal length. I wonder if the download was corrupted? Might try a fresh downloa

 

[lupinehorror]

do they provide checksums with their images (presuming iso or similar)? often useful

 

[kelper]

No, but two downloads have exactly the same size.

 

[lupinehorror]

hope you get to the bottom of it.