Comment on Raspberry Pi prices are rising again by up to $60

Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Granted this is a gaming sub so that view makes sense, however for specialized applications where you need the GPIO pins or space/power is a large factor they’re still needed and this is gonna suck.

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  • michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah it sucks. I know there are alternatives like the orange pi that are cheaper but the software support just isnt as good.

    End of an era.

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  • rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    PCIe card with GPIO?

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Except a PCIe GPIO card is bigger the the entirety of a Pi, let alone the entire computer and still suffers from power draw issues. On the software side I don’t know how well that would work as there already are a lot of GPIO SDKs a libraries specifically targeted at the Pi.

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  • ralakus@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If space isn’t the biggest factor, you can get the micro-pc and connect a microcontroller like a raspberry pi pico via USB or serial and write a driver to interface between the two systems (or use something like micro-ros). It’s not the best in extremely space constrained situations or areas where the connectors could come apart though

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