ItWasntMe@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours agoThe 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another ‘unavoidable’ RAM price hikewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down11
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minus-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 hours agoAn ESP32-P4 is about the same ram, better IO options, but half the CPU of the original Pi for about $20 right now. So the tech has been progressing a little bit.
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 hours ago ESP32-P4 Theres a ton of ebook readers that are using the esp32 as a baseline. and meshtastic. Its a fantastic set of chips and setup.
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoThe original Pi had 512MB not KB. It ran Linux and had an SD card “disk”. The ESP32 series aren’t in the same class.
An ESP32-P4 is about the same ram, better IO options, but half the CPU of the original Pi for about $20 right now. So the tech has been progressing a little bit.
Theres a ton of ebook readers that are using the esp32 as a baseline. and meshtastic. Its a fantastic set of chips and setup.
The original Pi had 512MB not KB. It ran Linux and had an SD card “disk”. The ESP32 series aren’t in the same class.