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Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, the cold reality is that they developed and released a perfect piece of hardware for industrial automation and sold it for pennies in comparison to other industrial computer boards.

Industry will always have deeper pockets than hobbyists.

[–] ikidd 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's far from industrial quality, but it still is getting used there. There's a reason it's a fraction of the cost of a proper PLC.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, exactly.

If you can buy 10 Pis for the cost of one real PLC, and the only downtime you have if it fails is the time to swap the board and boot the machine back up it's a no-brainer solution.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been seeing them everywhere.

Those self service terminal at autozone? Pi’s.

[–] lemming741 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen one- what's it do?

[–] ashok36 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just that. If the Pi Foundation has to make a choice between fulfilling an order for 100 pis for a company so that the company can keep making products and meeting payroll vs. 100 hobbyists that want to make their own one-off project, which is the more moral use of resources?

Yeah, those companies should probably not have chosen a pi board to power their products but that's only noticeable in hindsight.

[–] hemmes 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how am I supposed to run pi-hole and connect my Insteon fan to HomeKit?

[–] lemming741 3 points 1 year ago

It's amazing to me that there isn't anything comparable to a fanlinc or keypad linc. RIP in peace insteon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They also bent over backwards to help industrial buyers get them while flat out refusing to help content creators and Devs of open source projects that use the pi - it was really disappointing tbh

Still love them though but not as much as I used to.