The Pi boards actually replaced ESP32 boards running ESP-IDF firmware I wrote, I probably have 15+ of them at this point and still plan to use them for other th

The Pi boards actually replaced ESP32 boards running ESP-IDF firmware I wrote, I probably have 15+ of them at this point and still plan to use them for other things. The ESP32s were routinely dropping from WiFi (some being crashes, some just disassociating and never connecting again). ESP-IDF has had quite a few WiFi fixes, but it's difficult to guarantee that your own code isn't directly causing the problem (which you get for free running in userland on Linux), and dealing with it was becoming a huge time sink. Most of the Pi Zero W boards I have were $5 at Microcenter, the MicroSD adds to the cost a little but they're extremely reliable as a result, and my own code is no longer running in the same address space with the scheduler and WiFi driver under extremely tight memory constraints :)