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Aha, here comes the 16gb Pi 500 with a working M.2 slot. It never stops.
Do I feel sarcasm? Because I actually struggle to set up my Pi5 with the M2 hat I got π₯².
Just curioys, why wouldn't you buy say a 50β¬ thinkcentre instead or a raspberry?
Same reason as any other mini PC.
GPIO.
Honestly there is no other reason to use pi. Just the simple ability ti connect and build your own connection stuff.
Pi is by far the easiest system with a well suppirted os and api for learning\experimentation.
When to comes to using as a desktop etc. There are loads of better options if gpio is not wanted.
But even with GPIO, there's other cheaper boards out there with better specs to boot
Yeah but non with better support. They all tend to have OSes with limited updates and/or community support.
That is a huge plus for pi. And likely the only reason they survive.
I tried the orange pi, and that was a hassle, I had to fix and compile some obscure library in C to make python control I/O work.
Fair.
I always thought about the raspberries strength as small mobile devices. If I want IO on my PC I could buy an adapter/card. Or use my raspberry because I have one or two ofc. It sure is easy with them.
Best adaptor out there, atm. Is a pi zero with gpiozero on it. There really is not much in the way of adaptors with the support and flexibility for beginners that pi provides.
I meant an adapter for a classic PC, like a usb/serial port adapter.
So did I. Pi zero can boot via USB otg and act as a USB gpio port.
Have to tried it yet bout planning to.
Gpiozero is the library used.
Ha yes of course, using a raspberry so you don't need to use a raspberry (small pi vs big pi)!
Now I want to do just that but over wifi...
More small pie and full power PC already in place.
The issue with other options is lack of community support. So less usable for beginners and experimentation.
But def agree with the WiFi thing.
hmmm I'm not sure now π
I'm using the RPi for other projects but this one was for a server and I might not have put much thought for the hardware
But I've never seen a mini PC that cheap though?
It depends on when big companies throws out their pcs, like when they are 5 years old, or so it feels.
I did a quick search on ebay, it probably depends on where you live but I stumbled upon a 55β¬ one here
The problem with tinkcentres (tiny here) is that they are really easy to open and service, usually has place for a 2'5 drive plus a nvme and had two sodim slots, plus some funky stuff like small cards and CD player and so on so eventually it might cost more than 50β¬...
Is that really a problem π
I'm actually in France, but somehow ebay is not really in my mind, so u totally miss those, I'll have a look because it sure looks like less trouble to go this way than with the raspberry pi, even the OS as it would be a 64bits and not ARM (if I looked well on the specs)
(edit) also, now that I look at my setups I realize that I don't even use much of the GPIo on the rpi4 because I have a stupid amount of Esp32 spread everywhere in my place that fulfill the need
Quel coΓ―ncidence :-D ! Bordeaux ici !
Do you control the esps from your network? I did some simple sever controlled I/O with esp8266 (IIRC, the first popular esp).
The comment was about the 500, which currently has non-working M2, as a money grab apparently.