schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoOuch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385www.pcworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square159linkfedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down15
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minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoYou’re not wrong but… A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. Microcontrollers are IFAIK still as cheap as ever.
minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours ago A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. I wouldn’t use a Pi for that either as this can all be done with a $5 ESP32
You’re not wrong but…
A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. Microcontrollers are IFAIK still as cheap as ever.
I wouldn’t use a Pi for that either as this can all be done with a $5 ESP32