Any plans to incorporate the Pimoroni NVMe base

[Sol3Uk]

Just wondering if Flirc has any plans to make a version that will be able to incorporate the Pimoroni NVMe base

h**ps://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=41219587178579

[jason]

No, if anything I’ll make my own board to fit in the existing case if possible. 

[Drk]

I would love either solution. A Flirc case with support for NVME? * insert "Shut up and take my money" meme here*

I'm ordering a new 5 case to test with this base: h**ps://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6746817

Since your reply was over a year ago. Has there been any work done on this idea? Anything you can share?

[jason]

Something much better 

[Drk]

Way to get me excited!

I respect that you can't share much at the moment. Can you share maybe around what time some more info might be released?

I love the idea of a full-blown Flirc stack that's super portable AND looks stunning. I'm imagining an NVME based Flirc Kodi system for example, not only fully portable but large enough to throw some entertainment on the NVME storage to play locally. No external storage needed and faster than a micro SSD card.

Again, I know you can't say much (or anything). But if it would also be available for the Flirc RPi4 case I'm totally in. I just ordered 2 RPi 4 Pi-Hole edition cases to create a fail-over Pi-Hole setup. I thikn the SSD card I use in my current Pi-Hole might be dying. Over the past 2 months I was left without DNS a few times, first time it took me a few minutes to figure out it was the Pi-Hole that was no longer responsive. So, I'm going with better passive cooling using a Flirc case. But I'm still kind of stuck with the micro SSD card. I would like to port that to NVME if possible. I could do it using RPi5 (since I see there are Pi-Hole Flirc cases for it too), but the RPi4 is already overkill. The 5 would be massive overkill :D

I could go with Argon40 cases or Pimoroni for NVME, but I just love the Flirc design so much. It's clean, it's lean, and it's beautiful. So if you come up with something, you better bet I'm getting it. And I use a lot of cases. So far I have 22 RPis (gen 1 to 5) and 3 more on the way.

[Drk]

Oh wait, or maybe you're thinking about UFS instead. Hmmm but how to get it on the Pi? :D

Edited August 31 by Drk
Was distracted and submitted before finishing the full sentence :D

[jason]

On 8/31/2025 at 7:46 AM, Drk said:

Oh wait, or maybe you're thinking about UFS instead. Hmmm but how to get it on the Pi? :D

I can't go into too much detail. We have had 2 rounds of mechanical prototypes. One board, although we need to change very little for a spin. We are close. I'm waiting on commercial customer feedback.

It's a compute module product. It's beautiful, passive, and has a lot of cool engineering. I want to release it very soon. Just waiting on feedback so we can do one last spin before tooling.