Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10

Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by imaginenore on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:34PM (#13757024)

esp8266 is not even close to being a replacement for rPi. The specs are orders of magnitude worse. 160KB RAM, 1MB flash, 80MHz CPU, no GPU. None of the builtin modules for networking, wifi, etc.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by hgchoi on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:47PM (#13757169)

I think I agree that there really isn't a comparable competitor to rpi .. rpiZero W offers a lot for an iot module at such a great cost. maybe something like the CHIP, but not even?

I'm currently working on an agriculture sensing iot platform and going to try to use rpiZero W with the current spectrum sensor from nanolambda. http://www.nanolambda.net . luckily they have the rPi api,sdk already.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by imaginenore on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:54PM (#13757237)

What do you mean? There are tons of rPi alternatives.

https://www.board-db.org/

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by khedoros1 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:20PM (#13757965)

I think some of the Orange and Banana Pi computers would be roughly comparable, if you don't mind the Allwinner chips.

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