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brawndo@piefed.social 1 day ago
The most economical option for small computing is no longer a raspberry pi. It hasn’t been for a while. Now it is an mini PC. You can get x86 performance for the same price.
The raspberry pi still serves a purpose with it’s GPIO pins. If you need to make something physical then you may still find it useful. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 day ago The gpio pins always made it a bit of a weird middle ground between a used NUC-type and an arduino and all the years since the pi1 have just shrunken the possible use cases for it as mini pcs have gotten cheaper and arduino-likes have gotten more powerful.
Imagine RISCV-berry pi tho that would be sex.
There's a few RISC-V SBCs in Pi form factor already.
Yeah :(
I wonder if other SBCS are similarly priced but cheaper
fonix232@fedia.io 1 day ago
Not really though, given there's tons of cheap MCUs with the same or even more GPIOs available, and a USB/Wifi/Bluetooth connection away from doing the exact same thing as a Pi does. Could even whip up a linuxgpio driver that talks to your ESP32 fw and makes the same devfs gpiochipN endpoint available...