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A Raspberry Pi also requires a PSU, an SD card, and a case. By the time you add those in, you've probably doubled your cost, at least.
by semanticist 14y ago
A Raspberry Pi also requires a PSU, an SD card, and a case. By the time you add those in, you've probably doubled your cost, at least.
- bandy 14y agoPowered off of mini-USB (I have extra chargers laying about), SD cards are cheap cheap cheap (I also have a selection on-hand), and a case can be made out of LEGO bricks (again…). You forgot to add-on "keyboard, mouse, and monitor". Again, these are things that people usually have. For the dev cards mentioned up-thread, you'd have to have some sort of programming dongle, which more than doubles their cost, as well as get your hands on the right magic toolchain.
- bigiain 14y agoAll true - still means that bare minimum, a Pi (delivered) is double the price of a W703N (delivered). If you need add any/all of: wifi, power supply, SDcard, enclosure - to the Pi for your project, then I think "a few times the price" is a reasonable description. Not everybody will have "spares" of those "on hand", and if your project involves building more than one of whatever, then you can't rely on "on hand" extras. On the other hand, if you don't need wifi and you do need video out, then the Pi is an obvious choice. my project for the TL-W703N is a Tahoe-LAFS server/storage appliance - the router and a 1 or 2TB USB harddrive - if I could put 10 or 12 of them together and distribute them amongst friends, just a harddrive sized package they need to plug into the wall and allow on their wifi (or wired) network, in return everyone gets several hundred Gig of "private cloud storage" with baked-in encryption and distributed storage reliability.