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Is it even reasonable to use a raspberry pi for production? Wouldn't you want to go custom with an electronics manufacturer at some point?
by jbhatab 12y ago
Is it even reasonable to use a raspberry pi for production? Wouldn't you want to go custom with an electronics manufacturer at some point?
- Someone1234 12y agoDepends on scale of your product. For example, let's say you have a company which does school scoreboards, you might install 3x a month, 36/year. You can do a custom Pi solution for $35 (+software), or buy the commercial solution for $150+/board. For that type of operation you likely wouldn't make your money back having someone else produce a bespoke board for your 36/year installations. Even at three times that number it likely wouldn't be cost effective. You see this a lot in niche installations. Up until somewhat recently many POS terminals in small stores were just standard desktop PCs wrapped in a custom case and with some custom software (sometimes written in VB6(!)).
- lucaspiller 12y ago> Up until somewhat recently many POS terminals in small stores were just standard desktop PCs wrapped in a custom case and with some custom software Even in larger stores they ran Windows. I used to work for a large supermarket in the UK and the checkouts even now run on Windows NT and Windows XP with a custom UI. There are special versions of Windows for this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Industry
- angdis 12y agoThere is yet another form factor from Raspberry Pi-- the "compute module", it is a board that fits into a sodimm socket. This is a competing product for the Intel Edison. These are both practical form factors that can go into production assuming a stable and long term supply.