Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
by Chris2048 on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @07:24AM
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But the BB is ~$50? Literally 10x?
Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
by bsder on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:46AM
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It ain't $5 if I can't fab it at that price.
I can get a Raspberry Pi 2/3 for $35. That's a real price that reflects the Bill of Materials.
However, I still can't get a datasheet or support from Broadcom. That's a dealbreaker.
Feel free to use RPi's in your projects or for small volume. But if you need real volumes, use a Beaglebone Black/Green.
It's called a BeagleBone Black/Green. I can buy 1000 of those tomorrow off of Mouser. And I can go talk to TI to get a volume discount if I'm buying bunches.
The RPi is a neat toy good for one offs and the community is excellent. The $5 is cool marketing, but it's vapor when you go to fab it.
However, when I need to support something commercially, I need datasheets and customer reps. I get that for the Beaglebone while the situation for the RPi is laughable.