Looking for a tough, small Linux computer for my rig

[Matt Hixson]

We use these things in areas of the shop floor that can be high temps, or corrosive to monitor equipment parameters.

Fanless Industrial Intel Whiskey Lake NUC Computer

Fanless quad core Intel i5-8265U Whiskey Lake NUC computer with dual LAN in an ultra-compact form factor. With terminal block power, DIO and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth.

www.onlogic.com

Have you looked at the Raspberry Pi platform? Not sure what your computing requirements are, but the Pi is about 1/10th the cost of the NUC.

Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi

Your tiny, dual-display, desktop computer …and robot brains, smart home hub, media centre, networked AI core, factory controller, and much more.

www.raspberrypi.org

 

[egilbe]

Raspberry Pi's were looked at, but they weren't ruggedized, nor could the engineers figure a way to make them work without 32GB or RAM, and dual nics. We still have a couple kicking around the shop, somewhere. The company I work with either wants something for free, or to spend $3 million on something that doesn't work. No middle ground.