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Uh, ARM, low power, and GPIO. The fascination is in its applications beyond a desktop computer. It was dirt-cheap for what it did and enabled.
by hammyhavoc 3y ago
Uh, ARM, low power, and GPIO. The fascination is in its applications beyond a desktop computer. It was dirt-cheap for what it did and enabled.
- bsder 3y agoA Beaglebone Black is a FAR better fit for the description of "ARM, low power, and GPIO". A Beaglebone Black actually runs off of a 5V 500mA USB interface unlike the RPis that require non-standard 5V multi-Amp USB supplies. And it's GPIO system (along with everything else) is well documented and doesn't require NDAs. And the RPi was only dirt cheap while it was being subsidized by Broadcom. Now that it's not, the RPI is more expensive than low end x86s that run rings around them.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoThe word "was" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here. The Black was 2013, and the Pi was 2012, mate. Arguably, the branding of the Pi is much better too, and they conquered the education market, and are widely available at various retailers. Not to mention the Pi compute modules being used in a lot of products by the likes of Korg. Point of the Pi wasn't perf, even on release.