[Oberon] Move over Raspberry Pi, here is a $4, coin-sized, open-source Linux computer

[Lars]

On Sun, November 6, 2016 3:04 pm, eas lab wrote:
> I'll try to d/l the story; but while I've got the gmail garbage system
> here:
> RPi is not about the $/hardware ratio; it's about the total eco-system.
>
>

I would say it is about both.. the money you have to pay for extending the
pi with extra gadgets (hats) is fairly inexpensive.

If the price was $100 for this, $400 for that, no one would be as interested.

It's a combination of price per hardware, and the entire eco system.

Indeed the eco system is large and extensive.

What displeases me about the pi, is stuff does not work. You have to
download specially crafted forks of the operating system just to get LCD
screens to work, or you install some broken driver that gives you a really
slow screen, with possible bugs.

c.h.i.p $9 computer goals are to get stuff working correctly out of the
box, as opposed to pi which requires futzing around and piddling around.