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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't sound like the 'cheap small computer you can run your hobby electronics project on' that the original Pi used to be. It is not as cheap and a power hungry beast, still small, though. More and more like a PC and less and less a small cheap embedded platform. For some people it is a plus (I guess for most people here), for some not so much.

I tend to build my projects on Raspberry Pi Pico now, but sometimes I would need something more powerful and Raspberry Pi 5 will be too much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The project goal has never been a 'cheap small computer you can run your hobby electronics project on'. The whole point of the project is to build a small cheap PC to give away to school children to increase computer literacy, while making it attractive enough for normal people to buy to fund the charity side

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

So the current benefit is: it's small? At which point run tablets. :)

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

Tablets don't have gpios tho

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

Isn't the Pi 3B still available for that kind of job?

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

If you can find a new one. They are $45+ on ebay used. None of the usual US sellers has any.