Setting up the #RPi_Zero for BOINC was easy. It has a single ARMv6 core and 512M of RAM. In the Win9X days, this would have been good enough for your daily desktop machine.
First work-unit (Einstein @ Home) errored out quickly, but the next one (Yoyo / Distributed dot net) has been chugging along for twelve hours.
Temperature is 55C / 132F, versus the #XU4’s 63-81C / 145-178F. (The #Odroid XU4 just hit two days of uptime for the first time in this project.) Planning to repurpose the XU4 after its next freeze up. I’m hoping it chews through some work-units first.
I did read somewhere that persistent problems (overheating?) with the XU4 led to a stripped down version with a giant heat sink case being sold as the network storage oriented #Odroid #HC1 and Odroid #HC2 devices. I think that was either on the Ameridroid site or in the Amazon descriptions for the "home cloud" devices.
(Note: I've lived in this house 6.5 years and have not run BOINC at all until today, so being that high in the stats with the old equipment I used says something about the difficulty attracting and retaining people who'll devote some spare resources to research projects. There's also the possibility that BAM / BOINCStats only cover people who are specifically participating in that activity.)
I think I'll repurpose the other XU4 and attach it to BOINC through #Gridcoin. (I think this will show up as a separate account in the stats.)
I think that is a good idea, and I'm planning to spin up a #BOINC node with my own XU-4 soon. Or maybe an older #Raspberry_Pi (the !RasPi 4 seems a little expensive right now, and I already have a Raspberry Pi model 2B and a model 3B that I can repurpose).