$35 - Le Potato - Raspberry Pi Alternative - Chris's Basement - 2023

We have a Raspberry Pi Alternative, it's called Le Potato and it comes from Libre Computer. Hang out with us while we install Linux, OctoPrint and Klipper.

00:00 Introduction
01:13 Overview
02:42 Le Potato
06:09 Linux Install
15:25 First Boot
18:47 OctoPrint Install
24:26 Time-Lapse
26:26 Klipper
27:40 Conclusion

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[darth.fluffalufacuss]

Chris, thanks for the tutorial. Your tutorial is only one that seemed to work with my Le potato. Some things were a little different and a few tweaks done but yours was pretty spot on!

[HopeThisWorks]

I just started using one of these. I like Armbian just to keep my systems consistent. I use Orange Pi devices as well. Plenty of good walkthroughs online for Armbian installations of Klipper and Octoprint. I have no complaints about the Potato. It has been working great!

[KJfourIPS]

I've been running Klipper+Moonraker+Fluidd with OpenSUSE on this board's little brother (la frite) since January of this year. While in operation, it sits at about 25% utilization.

[pennakira]

Hi Thank you for the videos, it gave me the idea of putting Pi OS on Window Surface RT tablet I had collecting dust. Then I put OctoPrint and OctoDash on it. Now I can use the RT tablet for controling my 3d printer. The touch screen works great and it has a big screen.

[jon]

I bought one of these, like my cb1 better and it only cost about $2.50 extra plus it has wifi. The only downside with the cb1 is you have to pay $5 shipping or order two of them to get free shipping from the Biqu store.

Still a good board, I ended up installing mine in a van with Kodi running on it.

As always a super video, thank you!

[nobblynoel]

I just searched amazon france and ended up with mister potato head.

[howtoguy]

After writing the image, I'm getting a bootfs folder instead. It only has the EFI folder, cmdline.txt, config.txt, network-.con, and user-data. That EFI folder only has grub and a boot folder with BOOTAA64.EFI inside. I used for the image

[JohnDStrand]

This is a great board. I have a couple running Octoprint.

[screaminscott]

thanks for the tutorial. Just a reminder that everyon starting out with octoprint won't know about writing an image to a SD card. I had to look elsewhere to explain that

[woodwaker]

Great to see alternatives to the Pi. I wonder why they the Pis have not been more available?

[thegrumpytexan]

Been running several of these exact boards with Octoprint for almost a year - took me a while to figure out how to get it all setup properly (including webcam) but I have the process down now. Best part is, they fit in a standard RPi 3b+ case.

[kaishobbies]

I commented recommending this :). Just a heads up for anyone looking, I tried the slightly more expensive renegade as well and saw no real performance difference with octoprint. So no need to spend more, if your we're curious.

[peterwalker]

I use “angry ip scanner” on my iPhone for years. For those that are turned off my doing something like this… it is easy peasy lemon squeezey. ❤

[Sergiodj]

Somehow the music fit the Timelapse almost perfectly.

[RyunForsman]

Amazon is selling this board with WiFi and heatsink for $45 with a $5 coupon for prime users! Thanks for the video, worth a shot.

[TheButchersbLock]

Have you seen the Big Tree Tech pi v1.1. It seems to be the CB1 and the CM4 module combined. But with a better processor.

[estebanjaramillochica]

Great video, manage to get up and running klipper on a vocelab aquila, even after some struggling run input shaper with adlx345. Now I am triying to use a webcam and crownest but get no signal on mainsail, not sure what i am doing wrong. The webcam is an LG AN-VC500. I would appreciate any comment to get it working.

[murraymadness]

Thanks for showing the install and this board running. I was really interested in its 4k video. If you don't need that, can't you just use a esp32 to control your printer?

[UndernetSystems]

Been using the pine64 and orange pi single board computers with octoprint, they work well.

[mikes]

The first thing I got from this video is the scrips you can use for octoprint install. It is infinitely simpler than doing the manual install that I did the last time I did an octoprint install.
The Le Potato looks pretty good, though I don't need one (at the moment). That being said, i may find an excuse to get one.