# Sayonara Raspberry Pi 2b

Well like all good things come to an end, so has my journey with my Raspberry Pi 2B which has been here for almost a decade.

It's a nifty little device, and with 1 GB of ram everything was possible from running a Pi-hole DNS server to running a Python Script to play audio back in 2016, my StackOverflow question still exists [here!](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33802421/pir-sensor-with-raspberry-pi)

I initially got it for learning electronics but at that time the pi was quite expensive so I had to find a way to get it.

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1720029095798/180c17e9-83c5-41d7-ae84-f99baf7f1dec.jpeg align="center")

However, after many years, I somehow blew it up, I actually don't know how that happened, well I was too sleepy to remember but I somehow gave the `3v` GPIO pin a `5v` current while trying to get the UART to work and now my raspberry Pi is stuck in this state

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1720029212729/b1397a17-417c-4667-85e8-78c313f2e87c.jpeg align="center")

Where both the Green and the Red light are on, after reading many articles about the polyfuse blowing up and waiting several days to see if my Pi would resurrect I think it's finally time to say goodbye. Unless well I find a way to fix this somehow.

It's been a good buddy for about 8 years, and a small yet unknown mistake on my end caused it to blow up...

I've done a lot of learning on this Pi, half of which, I've never documented.

So long Pi2b

The last few random messages on my minicom terminal

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1720029704865/0c176fd7-ca36-4e39-aceb-644356343c5a.png align="center")