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I know, and yet the fact that I can buy a Chinese clone literally 10x cheaper makes it seem a bit off. I mean, I happily spend $35 on a Raspbery Pi and don't fe

I know, and yet the fact that I can buy a Chinese clone literally 10x cheaper makes it seem a bit off. I mean, I happily spend $35 on a Raspbery Pi and don't feel it's overpriced.

parsecs 5y ago
That's a good part thanks to the fact that nobody other than RPi Foundation can get those Broadcom microprocessors for cheap. This fact really sets apart the money making ability of those two companies.
- hytdstd 5y ago
  I'm not sure that RPi foundation's skill is just in shmoozing Broadcom-- they just released their $4 Pico board, which seems to be their own design.
krastanov 5y ago
The educational materials, documentation, and software support are the main reason for the markup. I really enjoy the Espressif boards, but I have faced many undocumented bugs or incomplete features on them and have had to frequently manually modify the IDE for them to work. No such problems with Arduino/Adafruit/Sparkfun, which also create high quality educational materials (and yes, cost 4x (not 10x) more).