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The thing that I was missing in the last version, and most of why I didn’t buy it, was that the GPIO present on the Pine SOC boards (and Raspberry Pi’s, etc.) w
by HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
The thing that I was missing in the last version, and most of why I didn’t buy it, was that the GPIO present on the Pine SOC boards (and Raspberry Pi’s, etc.) were not exposed in any way, shape or form on the last version. I think it would be really neat to have some flavor of internal GPIO (exposed pads on the edge of something are just fine, a low-profile connector with a fanout cable would be great for repair, too) that could be used for hobbyist projects or some fancy integrated controller for something like industrial robotics.
- pmarin 7y agoWe used to have GPIO ports in all computers including laptops via the parallel port.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoThat thing is so big, though, and doesn't really work when laptops are really thin (which, to a certain extent, I really appreciate).
- dTal 7y agoPreferably with some sort of overcurrent protection. It's one thing to fry an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi - it's quite another to fry a whole laptop.