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>Well the RPI has GPIO GPIO can be added via tons of USB to GPIO boards out there. But I agree - lot of people tend to buy the Raspberry Pis for home servers
by nirav72 3y ago
>Well the RPI has GPIO
GPIO can be added via tons of USB to GPIO boards out there.
But I agree - lot of people tend to buy the Raspberry Pis for home servers instead of just opting for used mini-PCs from secondary markets. Even a 7-8 year old Intel CPU in those mini PCs will vastly outperform a Raspberry pi. Even the Raspberry 5. Plus, better I/O options and storage with mini PC.
- monocasa 3y ago> GPIO can be added via tons of USB to GPIO boards out there. Depends on the use case. USB adds a few orders of magnitude more latency and jitter versus what's probably just APB.
- wkat4242 3y agoWhich only matters in very niche usecases though. Most of the stuff just flashes LEDs or reads a switch. Doesn't matter for that. And for more intelligent stuff there's i2c or api which have their own interface boards.