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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 months ago

        But even with GPIO, there’s other cheaper boards out there with better specs to boot

        • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          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.

        • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          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.

            • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              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.

                • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  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.

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      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?

        • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          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