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I can get a (used) fanless laptop and a USB GPIO/I2C/SPI/CAN/whatever adapter for that money. Raspberry Pis started at ~$30 for a minimal configuration. They we
by crest 4mo ago
I can get a (used) fanless laptop and a USB GPIO/I2C/SPI/CAN/whatever adapter for that money. Raspberry Pis started at ~$30 for a minimal configuration. They were so cheap that they killed the whole overpriced range of $100 to $200 dev boards by vendors that tried to make money of dev boards for their chips.
They have to be cheap enough that tinkers leave them in their projects.
- LtWorf 4mo agoBut the result is huge, you cannot 3d print a custom case for that and put it somewhere at home…
- fragmede 4mo agoCould you 3d print a case for the usb dongle and the breadboard, and then Velcro that to the laptop?
- LtWorf 4mo agoI mean… yes… but you still have a laptop sitting there :D
- taffydavid 4mo agoYou might be surprised how small a laptop motherboard can be. Once you take away screen, keyboard, battery, speakers, daughter boards and all that, you can have an actively cooled motherboard as slim as a pi and not much bigger. If you need something really tiny, an esp32 can do a lot of what we used to use a pi for. Driving an eink display for example