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.
The problem with tinkcentres (tiny here) is that they are really easy to open and service,
Is that really a problem 😅
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
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 🥲.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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hmmm I’m not sure now 😅
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?
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Is that really a problem 😅
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
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The comment was about the 500, which currently has non-working M2, as a money grab apparently.