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I'm glad in a way that this is happening. Arduin-ification is an important step towards ubiquity and 3rd party compatible addons of all kinds. OTOH, it really
by noonespecial 13y ago
I'm glad in a way that this is happening. Arduin-ification is an important step towards ubiquity and 3rd party compatible addons of all kinds.
OTOH, it really is a terrible form factor if you think about it. It's ports are spread across every edge and surface and even at that, the USB is offset on its edge just to make it interesting.
- ajross 13y agoHonestly, I'm not sure that makes sense to me. Your criteria for "good form factor" seem to presuppose that the board is going to go into some kind of standard enclosure. That's not the way these are being deployed -- they're going in weird custom boxes (or costumes, or stuffed animals...) with a bunch of other junk. Making the board physically larger just to get all the connectors on the same edge is going to be a net inconvenience for lots of the target market. Obviously for any one device there's going to be a better form factor. But that's not what the Pi is for.
- zokier 13y agoI think you got it entirely backwards. If there was some standard enclosure then nobody would care where the connectors were. But exactly because it ends up in all sorts diy projects and enclosures, the crazyish design makes it bad because it is unnecessarily difficult to design around.
- adestefan 13y agoUnfortunately. Arduino-ification means that shields continue in the world of non-standard header pitch size. And as you pointed out this is once again just making a terrible "standard."