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Yeah RPi is a great toy but you should treat it like a chemistry set. Use it as a tool for learning but don’t build a product with it. The difference between a
by jschwartzi 6y ago
Yeah RPi is a great toy but you should treat it like a chemistry set. Use it as a tool for learning but don’t build a product with it. The difference between a $24 board and a $200 board is often the level of support you get. The boards I’ve used in the past all have manuals down to the chip and I won’t touch anything that doesn’t.
- whizzter 6y agoAnd with a 8x smaller price it's perfect for throw-away units. I've heard of people who use it for projects were you place things out in the environment where you really have no control over vandalism, animals,etc so just replacing a cheap unit here or there isn't a big deal.
- detaro 6y agoOn the other hand, a surprising number of companies decide they don't need that kind of dcoumentation and just ship Pis, and that often works fine too. Not for things with deep hardware integration, and not for mass-scale, but plenty things just want "linux in a box with some simple peripherals".
- banana_giraffe 6y agoAs the person tasked with debugging one of those "linux in a box with some simple peripherals", I'm not even 100% convinced they sell them with more than the intent of the consumer turning it on once, playing with for a few minutes, then forgetting it exists.
- detaro 6y agoOh, not just talking about consumer devices: if anything, I would expect more non-consumer cases (but that could be a wrong estimation)