I’m surprised nobody makes an affordable PCI or maybe even USB GPIO box.
To me, the RasPi served two purposes:
- if you wanted GPIOs and the associated ecosystem of hats/shields/capes/straightjackets but a less barebones experience than a bare metal MCU
- RiscOS, because an Archimedes is far rarer than even an Amiga or ST in the Rogue Colonies
PassingThrough@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You would go for a Raspberry Pi when you need something it was invented for.
Putting a computer on your motorcycle or robot or solar powered RV. Super small space or low-low power availability things, or direct GPIO control.
A MiniMicro will run laps around a Pi for general compute, but you can’t run it off a cell phone battery pack. People only related Pis to general compute because of the push to sell them as affordable school computers, not because they were awesome at it, because they were cheap and just barely enough.
Thade780@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fair enough, but I wouldn’t host something I consider as an essential service on something that isn’t constantly powered.
Guess our use cases are way too different to properly compare. 😊