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This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute. This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridg
by neuralkoi 3mo ago
This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute.
This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected faucet.
- Rohansi 3mo ago> $5 compute Unrelated but the author at Tom's Hardware is apparently unaware of AliExpress so they bumped the price from $2 (or less) to $5. And that's the price for just one. These things are so cheap you can throw them in everything. They're the perfect alternative to a Raspberry Pi because they have WiFi, Bluetooth, lots of GPIO, and decent compute. Not enough to run Linux but you don't need Linux for IoT.
- Scoundreller 3mo agoI just bought an ESP32-C3 with a tiiiiny 0.42" LCD screen for CAD$3 from Aliexpress off their "Choice" items menu.
- Rohansi 3mo agoAnd on the higher end you can get an ESP32 CYD (Cheap Yellow Display) which has a 2.8" or larger touch screen, SD card slot, LiPo battery connection and charger, speaker port, and maybe more for ~$15. Can make fancy UIs for it with LVGL or install something like MicroPythonOS on it if you have PSRAM. https://lvgl.io/ https://lvgl.io/ https://micropythonos.com/ https://micropythonos.com/
- bombcar 3mo agoA pregamgamanagany test can be $5 and apparently it can run doom, so in bulk compute has to be pretty cheap.
- xboxnolifes 3mo agoThere's very little compute going on in this chip. It's a few hashes per second. Which is to say you can do a lot with $5 of compute if you can figure out how to not need to use a lot of compute.