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It has no video hardware, so it couldn't drive a monitor / panel for a laptop. It's more like an Arduino than it's like an RPi.
by blacksmith_tb 10y ago
It has no video hardware, so it couldn't drive a monitor / panel for a laptop. It's more like an Arduino than it's like an RPi.
- spraak 10y agoAh ok, I missed that, thanks for explaining!
- tigeba 10y agoSorry for being pedantic here, but despite lack of video hardware I would argue it has a lot more in common with the PI than an Arduino. It runs Yocto Linux and you can pretty much use the full suite of Linux tools to program it.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoThat's fair, I didn't mean to suggest that it wasn't a general-purpose computer running Linux, just that it wasn't really built to be used as a desktop. That said, I'd personally choose an RPi Zero W (which isn't much larger, costs 1/5th the price, and can drive a monitor, if you need it to).
- Nexxxeh 10y agoIt could also be run headlessly and combined with a Pi. The Edison running an X client (server) or RDP server, the Pi connecting into it.