#markii — Public Fediverse posts

@JoeRess I've been wanting to build smart speakers with SBCs because of their form factor. The problem I've run into (other than availability) is just getting audio peripherals that work without standing on top of any device. There's a lot of support from #Mycroft for Pi based devices since the #MarkI and #MarkII are both Pi based devices. A mini PC would work fine for this as well, but I don't want USB devices hanging off it everywhere. The "appliance" device is more what I'm looking for.

@Tay0 Yea, the #MarkI is going for the same price as the #MarkII right now. The Mark I is super hard to get and pretty rare since they haven't been made for a long time. You're going to have to wait a couple months (even though they're shipping now) if you want to buy one new, but you'll get the newer hardware. The Mark II is based around a Pi4, so you can literally plug in a monitor/keyboard/mouse to it and swap out the SD and you can have a fairly reasonable desktop computer.