[TriEmbed] new $4 Raspberry Pi

[John Vaughters]

Case in point, I finally delved into the ESP12-E and literally got 5 of them yesterday and loaded VS Code and platformIO for the first time and got an ESP12-E connected to my wireless network with a Modbus slave and all of that was done in 4-6 hours, which I consider to be super fast for never having used the software and hardware before. With a few more hours work, I will have a 5 min/device work load to build as many wireless Modbus nodes as I desire. All this possible due to the support of this device from the community.

So Yea! support matters. 

But this Pico device could be used as stand alone electronics brain. I could see using multiple devices in a robotics setting for instance. I don't know yet, but I like the competition. Also, you could use the ESP class as a wireless access point for this device. So them keeping the cost down with no wireless makes sense, because you can add wireless quite cheaply. 

My first reaction is still impressed.

I like RPI developing as much as possible. To think about 10+ years ago, gumstix had similar devices for over $100. 

Perspective!!

John Vaughters






On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 8:58:48 AM EST, Rodney Radford <ncgadgetry at gmail.com> wrote: 





The biggest competitors will be the esp8266 and esp32 that offer similar specs but already include wifi and a big user following, so that may be a hard sale - especially considering the very low prices of some of the variants direct from China now.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:50 AM Mark Sidell via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
> Of course, it's not exactly a pi. More like a pi-ish Arduino, perhaps. Hackaday did a nice write-up: https://hackaday.com/2021/01/20/raspberry-pi-enters-microcontroller-game-with-4-pico/
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>> competition for arduino?
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>> 3 ADCs is nice and super flexible I/O definition possibilities. 
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