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How will the propeller survive this?!!

rwgast_logicdesignrwgast_logicdesign Posts: 1,464
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A $5 RPi!!!..... ok so there not quite the same but you could connect a few small attinys to this and it would be as much as one $8 propeller!!!!

I know none of us fanboys are gonna ditch the prop... but still how is a complete embedded PC now cheaper than a single micro? When I first got in to electronics I the beagle board XM was the only thing in town like a Pi and it was $150 bucks, now were down to $5!!! I bought a pi and I have never used it basically because I cant recreate a PCB and im not going to spend 30 bucks on every project that needs one, but now you can stick a pi in anything, for cheaper than one propeller >:|

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  • ElectrodudeElectrodude Posts: 1,658
    edited 2015-11-26 17:54
    Price isn't everything. The BS2 costs $50 each and is less powerful than a PIC and yet enough people still use it for it to be profitable to Parallax.

    There's another discussion going on about this at http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/162879/pi-zero-a-5-computer
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    rwgast_logicdesign wrote: »
    A $5 RPi!!!..... ok so there not quite the same but you could connect a few small attinys to this and it would be as much as one $8 propeller!!!!
    The price is impressive, but your own comment shows why this is not too much of a Chip-sale threat - you need to add more chips, to get it do do something useful.

    The best part to add to a PiZero, is something like the new EFM8LB1 (from $0.8484/100) - that has 12b DACs and 12b ADC and PWM and fast UARTS (etc), for the same price region as some ATtiny's

    What this will shake up a little, is the Eval-board-space expectation, and this header form factor may displace Ardunio.

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    jmg,
    ...this header form factor may displace Ardunio.
    God I hope so.

    The Arduino pin layout is broken making it hard to drop a proto board onto it. An accident in the original layout apparently, too late to fix after it went to production.



  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    Heater. wrote: »
    The Arduino pin layout is broken making it hard to drop a proto board onto it. An accident in the original layout apparently, too late to fix after it went to production.
    I thought that oops was deliberate, to prevent miss-rotate ?

    Of course, you can stay on 0.1" and indicate a right way around too, with very little effort..
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    That thing still runs Linux and that is not the same thing as a more lean, to the metal type solution like the Propeller and many other microcontroller devices are.

  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    I am going to merge this with the other previous post.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    I doesn't seem to allow me to merge after the discussion has been replied to. I will lock this one. Please visit:

    http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/162879/pi-zero-a-5-computer
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