magnetic card reader and writer raspberry pi

Add a camera module, the video appears automatically, add an extra Ethernet module, you now have the option to stream the camera output. That’s where it gets really impressive as the dashboard will automatically detect new blocks and reconfigure itself on the fly. The Raspberry Pi block runs the dashboard shown as shown below. The new Raspberry Pi CM4 based Pockit block has two main benefits with a more powerful module than the RPi CM3 block, and the mechanical design has changed with a screwless design that’s easier to install and remove.

This makes the solution ideal for rapid prototyping. The exceptions are some larger blocks, such as HDMI displays, that are attached to the side of the mainboard. All of which can be magnetically snapped while the computer is running, and automatically detected in the dashboard. Pockit now supports over 80 feature BLOCKS ranging from a rotary encoder to a microSD card reader to various camera types, an HDMI block, AI accelerators, and so on.

Other changes include support for AI accelerators, an improved dashboard, home automation integration, and more. The developer (Anil Reddy) has made good progress with the project and added the option to use a Raspberry Pi CM4 with Pockit (provided you can find one) to improve performance, for example for computer vision. The system was based on a STM32+ESP32 mainboard with a socket for an optional Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 and included magnets and electrical contacts to snap and hot-plug modules/blocks while the computer is running. We first wrote about the Pockit modular Linux computer with hot-plugging magnetic blocks about a year ago.

Magnetic card reader and writer raspberry pi