2 ms·
>The GPIO was always the point. You ca get GPIO on the cheap from a Arduino, ESP8/32, or RP2040 microcontroller. RPi itself is far too wasteful for that. > Pe
by Cumpiler69 2y ago
>The GPIO was always the point.
You ca get GPIO on the cheap from a Arduino, ESP8/32, or RP2040 microcontroller. RPi itself is far too wasteful for that.
> People using them as cheap computers ruined it.
False, industrial users using them in all commercial embedded products ruined it.
Almost nobody is using RPis as cheap computers at home since they suck at that: too expensive, too underpowered and too limited in functionality to be a computer for the average joe
My RPi 2 becomes an unusable stuttery mess when I open a web browser and for the price of a RPi 5 I got a used quad core Intel 8th gen laptop with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD which not only beats the RPi at any and all computer tasks, but it also comes with built in keyboard, 1080p monitor, battery, charger and I can take with me to do work on the go.
The only thing I see the RPi good at at home is a headless PiHole/VPN or whatever, not as an actual desktop computer replacement.
- immibis 2y agoA Raspberry Pi was a full Linux computer with GPIOs. You can run whatever daemons and still control a relay board. No microcontroller fills that niche. There still isn't really anything in that niche other than single-board computers (i.e. Raspberry Pi clones) - for example, NUCs don't have GPIOs on them. Of course you can fall back to the previous standard idea - connecting an Arduino to another computer and communicating by the serial port.