Why not choose to ignore this thread if it isn't to your liking? Consider my rant here a cautionary tale: for those who build with Arduino (which is consistently excellent in my experience), avoid Pi like the plague.
Why is it the only easy entry level project that's well documented and supported for beginners for the Pi is a project that encourages software piracy?
Hi, @hallowed31
The Pi is not a weak product, it is designed to do a job, and you should read the specs and appreciate the fact that the current consumption of ALL components should be taken into consideration when designing a system.
Even the Arduino controllers are not supposed to provide any significant 5V output for peripherals, some LEDs - yes, a motor - no.
Tom... 
PS. I'm a non Pi user, but appreciate its position in the scheme of open source material, due to its computing power and language level.
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Please point out where I indicated that this thread is not to my liking?
I like and use RPI's and ESP32's I've recently got into the BeagleBone.
The RPi runs on opensource software.
I thought my question was legitimate. Arduino does not make the RPi and cannot help you fix RPi issues but...
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Mutually exclusive concepts
The PSU by canakit is a cheap black wallwort made by the lowest bidder.
The official PSU is white and has the RPi logo embossed into the plastic. It is a higher-quality PSU than your standard 2.5A and I've never had an issue with one.
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Well until you do care about current you will continue to have these problems.
It sounds like you assemble systems.
If you are constructing a gaming PC, which would you use a 100W power supply or a 450W power supply?
Tom..
PS @er_name_not_found note five!!!!!
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It's USB, man! If there's a plug in your wall, you can expect to plug in a device that works on AC voltage, can't you? If there's two, you should reasonably expect to plug in two devices of AC voltage, assuming nothing unusual of course. I don't think an Arduino Uno using serial, one wireless mouse dongle and one keyboard qualifies as anything potentially problematic for a device that sells itself on 4 x USB ports, does it?
You'll not convince me. As I'm eating my toast before blowing another hour or so solving a problem that shouldn't exist, I'm just here to trash on the Pi because THE ONE TIME I asked it to do anything useful for a project at all, under very typical use case, it completely failed. Not even a little fail, but totally, and I'm venting my frustration because I'm at wit's end and I'm effing furious.
Hi,
Have you something like this?
Its would be a great help for you;
Tom..
Hey [soapbox] That's my soapbox [/soapbox]
Tom...
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If you want to rant, nobody can stop you, but the fact remains that literally millions of RPi boards have been used with very few unresolvable issues.
If you want to resolve the problem, it's most likely the USB power supply you're using.
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Thanks anyway, but it's USB. It's a well-defined standard that my build did not surpass. Two 100mA devices and whatever Arduino over serial demands (while externally powered) shouldn't be an issue, if it is, that's an equipment problem, not a me problem. I'm not owning this one and I'm the first to admit user error, trust me. I've burnt lots of chips, regulators, boards in the thousands of hours I've spent self-studying and learning this hobby. No, I'm not owning this. It's an unreasonable equipment failure, nothing, nothing more.
Time to go fix this thing.
It isn't. It's the one that came with it, from the same people that made the Rasp Pi or whoever they parcel that out to, officially. It ain't my error, man. I refuse to own this. And how do you know the success/failure rate of "millions of Rpi boards"? Most likely, the failures end up in the trash and folks just count their loss and say little because it isn't worth the time or bother to seek recompense.
Thanks for your thoughts and words, it's not anyone here I'm fuming at and I appreciate you all. This piece was critical to my haunt and I was very proud of it, very proud as a showcase piece that could do everything a Fallout terminal did, different difficulty levels, open a "safe" I made out of an old microwave and even more -- to local youth as example of what you can make in the real world that's still cool like a video game but not sitting in front of a video game as just an end user, but rather a maker, learning and building anything you can imagine and look what I got for my faith in RPi.
Post a picture of this official power supply
It's just there behind the monitor showing the test pattern. The one that's supposed to have cool, Fallout green lettering on it.
Unless the Canakit people sell knock offs and I didn't know, it's official. Now I have a few hours before the kids arrive and the rain has stopped so I have things to do.
Thanks for trying to help anyway though, I honestly do appreciate it and all of you.
If it's black, it's not official.
As I said earlier, the official ones are white and have the Pi logo embossed into the plastic (not a sticker). They are more expensive but they work very well. I have personally installed hundreds and have yet to replace one after 7 years of continuous 24/7 operation.
I like your lab, btw.
TIL, thanks.
Are those embossed on the outside in addition to the silk-screening shown?
