Sure, I'll bite. One of the practical challenges we ran into was powering the damned things in embedded environments--PoE can handle this neatly. Another part

Sure, I'll bite. One of the practical challenges we ran into was powering the damned things in embedded environments--PoE can handle this neatly. Another part was working out if cooling became an issue in our chosen environment...we figure we'll cross that bridge after alpha testing shows how things go. I suspect a small fan and convective cooling will be sufficient, if not a big heatsink built into the case. We also looked at using BeagleBone Blacks for the same application. The main draw of a Raspberry Pi was that you can replace them easily and they're good enough for an MVP until you can justify developing a real embedded system.