Raspberry Pi Zero is still very much available, and costs less than the original Pi 1/2/3/4. It’s enough for most microcontroller tasks, if you want cozy Linux with Python and don’t want to dive into RTOS and C microcode.
Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So
Buffalox@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It looks to me they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.
pelya@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.
pelya@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Their original goal was to provide an affordable and customizable computing device with generic IO ports for a classroom, which they very much did.
14 years later, classrooms have a crapload of alternatives, ranging from $3 ESP32, which you can literally solder and throw away, to $500 Jetson, and all Raspberry Pi clones, like NanoPi or OrangePi, all with GPIO, UART, SPI and I2C ports, for all your microcontroller needs.As for the embedded developers community (or ‘makers’ as kids call themselves nowadays) - these are the kind of people who dump two thousand bucks for a 3D printer and then use it twice a year. I think they will survive raising Raspberry Pi 5 price to $45.
And Raspberry Pi foundation pivoting towards business is a predictable move - those kids who used Raspberry Pi 14 years ago in a classroom are now business owners or technical leads in many businesses.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Dont they still dothis? And subsidise it with higher spec items?
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
lol no
The Pi Foundation died when it was reborn as a for-profit organization.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 18 hours ago
Demonstrated clearly during the pandemic when they prioritized sales to businesses over anything else.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I used to purchase several Pi’s each time they released a new model and probably have a dozen in total.
But I haven’t purchased any since they told all of their hobbyist and retail user base to go fuck themselves during the chip shortages.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I heavily dislike them locking down their cameras. Idk if that was a particularly recent move or not, but I would never consider the hardware as open if it has built in vendor locking functions.