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How often is that the case? Are you really saving so much more money with a 10W board vs a 15W system to offset the purchasing price?
by FirmwareBurner 2y ago
How often is that the case? Are you really saving so much more money with a 10W board vs a 15W system to offset the purchasing price?
- nine_k 2y agoIt's like 1.5x longer run time on battery power :shrug:
- brokenmachine 2y agoMost things I see rpi being used for would be better done at 1/10 of the power with an ESP32, STM32 or arduino. The things that need an rpi and therefore must use power from the wall anyway, I always find myself thinking would be better done by a minipc, eg one using a laptop cpu like a 7730U. Costs more, but you get like 3-4x the speed at a similar power use, and have much more flexibility on what OS you can use because it's a "proper" PC. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of rPi. I have a Pi Zero that I've used exactly once because I wanted to do something and I came across a project that did exactly what I needed that used rPi. I just find there's always a better option than rPi for every project I find myself doing.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoHow many PIs did you see in battery powered applications?
- chronogram 2y agoIs it really 1.5× longer in practice? The N100s are efficient, and you can simply choose a lower power profile by sending a different energy/performance preference to the CPU, and it finishes tasks quicker.
- icelancer 2y agoIt's purely about battery runtime in these cases.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoHow many battery powered applications did you see use a pi?