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A $6 Linux computer you might be able to write code for
- detaro 8y agoduplicate (this article even links to that discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425643
- yifanlu 8y agoA Raspberry Pi Zero is $5, runs ARM, has tonnes of community support, and is available to ship outside of china. If you look at taobao/aliexpress/ebay, there are also hundreds of RPI clones and ARM development boards and even FPGA boards < $10. What makes this interesting?
- lowtolerance 8y agoI’m tempted to buy one just to play around with an unconventional ISA. I don’t think this is meant to be a Pi alternative.
- Koshkin 8y agoYou might want to look at ESP8266 instead.
- ifoundthetao 8y agoI'd vote ESP32 in addition to the ESP8266.
- lowtolerance 8y agoI’ve got about a dozen ESP8266 dev boards, but they are not in the same league as this. ESP8266 is just a WiFi-enabled MCU. Getting any kind of video output or even keyboard input from it is a hack, and forget about it running Linux.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoI wonder what the power requirements are? If they're substantially less than the Pi Zero, perhaps it has a use case?
- IshKebab 8y agoNone of these cheap computers are worth the support headaches. Just get a Raspberry Pi.
- znpy 8y agoThe Chip computer was way better, at just 9$. The company (nextthing co.) dissolved, however. Haven't understood why yet.
- detaro 8y agoWho knows if their "way better" prices ever were sustainable, especially with their zoo of side-projects. Some people waited years for orders and never got them in the end.
- opencl 8y agoThe SoC on this board appears to be intended for use as a DVB TV receiver with all of the relevant video decoders onboard, and there are a bunch of receivers based on this chip on Alibaba. I'm not sure why anyone would want this thing without an antenna connection.