Rich Schupbach

Raspberry Pi

When I joined SCC in 2024, the flagship product made use of a Windows 10 LTSC-based SBC. Some form of this SBC had been used for 10+ years. I identified an opportunity to replace this system with a Raspberry Pi, resulting in hardware cost savings of roughly 60%.

This required that I port the existing Windows-based software to a cross-platform alternative. I chose python.

Any applications for which Windows was required, I opted for a NUC as the SBC replacement, resulting in hardware cost savings of roughly 50%.

SBC

SBC

Various models of Raspberry Pi evaluated during development

Raspberry Pi

NUC

NUC

SBC vs NUC

SBC vs NUC

SCC LED display products make use of the Hub-75 standard. A sender is used to take digital video output from the SBC and send it via Ethernet to the Receiver. By making use of the Raspberry Pi video frame buffer and outputting image data via the Pi GPIO, a portion of the overall cost savings was realized.

Sender/Receiver

Sender/Receiver

Sender/Receiver vs GPIO

Sender/Receiver vs GPIO