we had our first-ever category-five crew conversation last week and this week it's time for our first-ever category-five crew conversations cupcake [Music] so who do you think did the best with our crew conversations let me just remind you if you're just joining us Jeff you covered topics like Chromebooks for school yes for the education sector there are your children yes you covered raspberry pie microcomputers as minecraft server is yes I on the other hand the clear winner covered using 3d printers to save money because the price of 3d printers has come down so far I posed the question could I actually save money to to spend it on a 3d printer and I think the answer is yes I also talked about using a pan tilt head from a DMX light which is a like a little think of a DJ light that you know moves around and and and the DJ can control that with a DMX controller which is like pretty typical and we have one here and putting a Raspberry Pi HQ camera in the body of that and using the 3d printer to reprint the face to make it work so you can still use the lights but you've got the camera when we went through this oh no way then I'm coming out ahead because those are flippin cool ideas flippin cool you heard it really cool Wow I covered some crazy awesome stuff but you have it your your mum was watching Oh what did I pull out the win tell me honestly did you vote for your own videos no no I did not vote for my own videos I also did not vote for my own videos Geoff came out on top 25 percent now I think your your topic of using a Raspberry Pi as a minecraft server really tipped you over the edge because people seem to really love that we got some comments yes people talking about because was the most voted for video content or and they loved it like people were talking about how this is something that I've been thinking about thank you for doing this thank you for talking about this yeah I worked on this more and I do have an update based on their conversation oh can you tell us a little bit about that yeah I've already kind of announced who gets the cupcake but yeah so I did get the server up and running and for a single user to log in it was not bad okay as soon as my kids joined not so good oh yeah I had three computers so I got the the logins activated and it just hmm so I would not use the three B+ okay here so now I've got it on a no droid I'm going the next step up Oh droid x u 4x u 4 with 2 gigs of ram with two the MMC are using SD I'm using EMM see I've got a 64 gig emmc on there you know which is way more than I need for the server you say that but then your kids become master builder well exactly and that's why I went with a bigger one I debated on the 128 but I'm like I think that's a bit of overkill right now for minecraft server but I so the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ was too slow going beyond multiple a single user and I think even if it was speedy enough to run multiple users by the time they start creating and building and all that it would slow right down so now I'm trying it on the Xtreme I guess that world gen yeah it's on Raspberry Pi and we'll see how that goes well you don't have an update for us yet no oh darn it Jeff what are these like an old water so much I gosh dude so I've got install I just haven't done the the test yet you're gonna fill us in on this yes of course goodness and and if if the xu4 is a little bit slow then I will go with the Raspberry Pi here is what is nice about going with the Raspberry Pi for you've already created it for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ correct so all you have to do is take the SD card out of the three B+ pop it in a Raspberry Pi four that's right and turn it on that's right because it's already I figured is beautiful yes that's what Raspberry Pi has going for it is that it is forward compatible it's not backward compatible if it like you have to a well not backward compatible no that's not right what I mean is that an old distro from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ will not work on a new Raspberry Pi 4 because they changed the bootloader yes however as long as you do like an well I presume it's a new version of Raspberry Pi os yes yeah it was the most rigid so it's going to work on a Raspberry Pi 4 or a Raspberry Pi 0 whatever but the performance will be impacted if you have a distro that's been built on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ that's not compatible with a raspberry pi 4 you can do a dist upgrade exactly and that will actually make it compatible with the Raspberry Pi do ya apt update and then enter and then apt upgrade and then enter and then apt dist - upgrade and that's all you need to do on a Raspberry Pi 3 or 0 don't paint anything in between in order to make it compatible with a Raspberry Pi floor so you can take that SD card and move it into another into a faster system you cannot take that SD card out of the Raspberry Pi 3 and plug it into an X you for from override because they are not compatible right yeah but the Odroid has twice as much RAM mm-hmm way more storage MMC is so much faster than SD cards especially on the pre PI 4 yeah because those were really slow SD card readers and the reason I went with if I what if I had a Raspberry Pi for yeah one of you I would just would have gone from the 3 to the 4 but because I have not purchased a Raspberry Pi for yet the extra 4 is what I had and so that's why I'm giving it that wonderful as I was doing anything I've thought about our conversation last week you like all what about they were dry and what about the you know and so I'm like here here's the progression on we're so we can you know I'll be able to report back and say this was the difference now I I should have fought to do like benchmarks and stuff between the two but yeah but you know yo you can tell when you're playing minecraft if world gen is bad yes yeah so Jeff on that now enjoy your gourmet cupcake oh I will from our local bakery I will and while Jeff does that I'm actually gonna mosey on over to the bridge and I want to show you my new clock interesting see ya two seconds later [Applause]