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I suppose they quite like the fact that if you build something on Rpi you have to buy from Rpi and can't go on to design your own board and buy the SoC from Bro
by megous 8y ago
I suppose they quite like the fact that if you build something on Rpi you have to buy from Rpi and can't go on to design your own board and buy the SoC from Broadcom.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIs this true? It seems there are plenty of SBCs out there that share an identical form factor and are pin-compatible with the Pi's GPIO.
- megous 8y agoNone has the broadcom chip. So if you want to make a custom hardware project based on the broadcom chip that's in Rpi you can't. So if that's on your radar as an eventuality, you can just as well ignore the whole rpi thing, and start with more easily available chinese SoCs. That's why there's much more hacker friendly innovation around Allwinner SoCs for example, than the SoCs that are used in rpi.