Wiretrustee CM4 Stata Board (Discontinued)(github.com) |
Wiretrustee CM4 Stata Board (Discontinued)(github.com) |
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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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
P.S. I'm a Wiretrustee author
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.
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!
The only issue we still face is sourcing actual Raspberry Pi compute modules. There's very little we have control over there.
Give it a shot :)
Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the supply chain problems, very frustrating.
I wish more designs would go open when they're no longer commercially viable. All it's going to do in the long term is breed better hardware designers, after all.