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what about if you were buying 100 of them?
by notatoad 2y ago
what about if you were buying 100 of them?
- metadat 2y agoThat is a very different situation, ESP8266 looks highly appealing if you need it in bulk. Optimize the app into a low resource C program and live happily ever after. Look at what all the best volume manufactured custom and smart devices are based on these days.. it's ESP :) Esphome makes life easy.
- moooo99 2y agoI have no clue why people here are comparing a Raspberry Pi with an ESP32, while those products have some tinkering overlap, they are entirely different product categories. Your Raspberry Pi will have some difficulties running from battery for months while your ESP will already have a hard time driving a reasonably high resolution display for HMI
- michaelt 2y ago> I have no clue why people here are comparing a Raspberry Pi with an ESP32 The usual HN discussion of RPi goes something like this: "The RPi 5 has gotten too expensive, these days intel small-form-factor PCs (possible second hand) are a better choice, giving better performance and no messing around with microsd cards" "I need GPIOs, sub-3-watt power consumption, and I don't need the performance of the most expensive RPi model" "If you need GPIOs and low power, why not ESP32?"
- rwalle 2y agoWell, yes, but to lots of people they use it for the same thing. You can find projects people post online that uses raspberry pi to control a basic motor, which is a bad use of raspberry pi and a horrendous waste of resources. But people do that. You understand the difference but not others.
- pantalaimon 2y ago> ESP8266 looks highly appealing if you need it in bulk That chip is ancient, better get a ESP32-C3 or ESP32-C2