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looking for a cheap computer to do their hardware hacks with A free standard PC, of which a depressingly large number are thrown out every day, easily beats th

• matthewmacleod 1y ago
  …while being hundreds of times bigger and also not offering the scope to implement hardware hacks (e.g. interfacing through GPIO/I2C/SPI/Serial without additions that cost more than the entire Pi). Yes - obviously you can use an old PC for many different PoCs and prototypes. It doesn’t take much imagination to think of those you can’t.
  • kees99 1y ago
    > not offering (...) GPIO/I2C/SPI/Serial Nearly every "old PC" does offer built-in easily accessible I2C - as "DDC channel" of a monitor plug - VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort - all have it. Linux exposes those as regular /dev/i2c-*, so any I2C software that works on a RPi or other Linux SBC, will run with those too: https://web.archive.org/web/20120903090802/http://www.paintyourdragon.com:80/?p=43 https://web.archive.org/web/20120903090802/http://www.painty...
    • jki275 1y ago
      Also there are usb devices that can run gpio/spi/i2c/uart for a few bucks.