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This piece strikes me as downright dishonest. The table purports to be apples to apples, but while the HDMI adapter added in for the pi zero, the $13 HDMI add-o
by kevinpet 11y ago
This piece strikes me as downright dishonest. The table purports to be apples to apples, but while the HDMI adapter added in for the pi zero, the $13 HDMI add-on board is not included in the cost section of the CHIP.
An honest comparison would be $23 vs $24 with HDMI, or $10 vs. some lower cost for the pi zero subtracting out the HDMI cable. I'm also skeptical of including the OTG adapter. Maybe it's needed for some purposes, but it's not a generally needed component.
The CHIP appears to be better for IOT experimentation, but the PI is intended to be a general purpose computer, which also includes some hardware integration tinkering capability.
- ctdonath 11y agoFor this class of gadget, ok to leave out parts that a large percentage of users have lying around or otherwise won't need.
- makomk 11y agoYou need the OTG adapter if you want to connect it to a network, or a keyboard and mouse, or anything really. The only USB port on the Pi Zero is the micro-B OTG one. There are lots of interesting applications for the Pi that don't use HDMI at all, but few that don't use networking or a keyboard