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Also, most of my developer friends who have one booted theirs once or twice before disappearing in the closet. We used one as a home server, but replaced it by
by danieldk 8y ago
Also, most of my developer friends who have one booted theirs once or twice before disappearing in the closet. We used one as a home server, but replaced it by a NUC, since IO on the Pi is too constrained.
The Micro:Bit at least actually got a foothold in UK education.
- eropple 8y agoYeah, IO constraints have made me dial back my use of Pi-alikes and have put a bunch of NUCs (or Gigabyte BRICs) in their place. I do still use my ODroid XU4 as a gimmicky little cluster for testing stuff, but nothing serious. I do have one project idea for using my stack of RPis, though (a badging/console login system for fighting game tournaments) but that is waaaay on the back burner.
- ekianjo 8y agoI think the Raspberry Pi had a good use though: it served as a stepping stone for people who wanted to try out home servers but did not want to spend a lot. After getting one's hands dirty with the Pi, it's fairly easy to move on to better hardware and feel confident doing so.
- jdietrich 8y agoThe Pi is an awkward inbetweener - it's too power-hungry to substitute for a microcontroller, but too basic to replace an x86 computer in most applications. To be fair, the Micro:Bit exists because of the lessons learned from the failure of the Raspberry Pi in education. In a strange sense, it's the 2.0 version of what the Pi was supposed to be; the Pi lives on because of the hobbyist community, but it failed fairly comprehensively at its intended purpose.