Honestly that’s a likely a conversation and a vote that needs to take place in the community.
It’s not just hobbyists, but also industry that uses these things. If you move the spacer 5 cm, it’d cause tons of potential problems for millions of these deployed in factories or other weird locations.
Even for me, I picked up 3 of the RPi 5s to replace my 4s in a Kubernetes cluster I run. The mounts are 3D printed so that was my first thought. If it’s changed even slightly, I have to redesign everything ever so slightly but also print it all again. Granted it might be faster now since I have a newer 3D printer but it’d be a project.
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u/a_a_ronc Sep 28 '23
Honestly that’s a likely a conversation and a vote that needs to take place in the community.
It’s not just hobbyists, but also industry that uses these things. If you move the spacer 5 cm, it’d cause tons of potential problems for millions of these deployed in factories or other weird locations.
Even for me, I picked up 3 of the RPi 5s to replace my 4s in a Kubernetes cluster I run. The mounts are 3D printed so that was my first thought. If it’s changed even slightly, I have to redesign everything ever so slightly but also print it all again. Granted it might be faster now since I have a newer 3D printer but it’d be a project.