At this rate it's not far off what you would get with an ATtiny while active, which consumes around 10mA[0], the difference is that those and other micro contro

At this rate it's not far off what you would get with an ATtiny while active, which consumes around 10mA[0], the difference is that those and other micro controllers have sleep modes which reduce the consumption into the uA range - hopefully details on something like that for the Pi will be released too. [0] https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/h2ohno/low-power-attiny https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/h2ohno/low-power-attiny