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Here's hoping they didn't smuggle a full size ATX motherboard through the facility using the 'old fashioned' prison method. Or even a 3.5" SATA hard drive...

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The prison transportation infrastructure vastly subsidizes Arduino Minis for this reason.

I'd say the Pi Zero is a far superior option. Vastly more computing power with only minimal additional pain.

Bonus points if you hook it up to a battery and SSH into it during transit. Probably not the best idea to have something inside of you that occasionally catches fire, though.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/

Or the ESP32!

https://espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp32/overview

Compute Stick

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-c...

The new Pi Zero W with Wifi and Bluetooth would be even better...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero-w/

I incorrectly assumed the regular Pi Zero had wireless capability. Seems the W model would be essential.

Man that sucks, although in my case it would be a soldering job concern. I can't believe the Pi Zero was the only server I've gotten crontab to work so far. Tried Debian/Ubuntu I don't know why I can't get cron to run. I just want bots but a physical thing on my end I imagine is not as reliable as a hosted server (rent) for developing bots that run constantly gather stuff.

Best use case for an Intel Compute Stick yet.

I know you guys are joking, but there is a whole class of cell phone that is designed specifically with the prison market in mind. Not too sure on the specs of the higher end models though.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/27/18/329808C00000057...

Put them way up inside there, as far as they can fit.

S3 is out man wooo

edit: well started anyway

South Park s04e02 "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000".

You're welcome :)

DVD drive...

Medium Tower ATX case. Ouch.

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