I wrote about
costs of running full Bitcoin node in one topic and I would like to hear what is your experience and costs with using Raspberry Pi.
More people should run full node if they really want to have benefit of more privacy, and I don't think it's hard or expensive at all for average guy.
Kind of moving a bit OT from the OP but I have run both "node in a box" implementations that were discussed above.
RPi4 / Samsung SSD. I went with the higher expense of the SSD because it does have a lower power draw then a spinning drive and since the RPi and drives are not secured on the desk / in a case kind of thing I figured no moving parts is better. Between the RPi and the drive and SD card I was out around $200.
Installed the image and followed the steps and waited. Between the blockchain download the Lightning download and the setup (auto) of electrum server it was under a week. Started Monday AM when I came into the office was done before the weekend.
-Dave