Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
by user5994461 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:12PM
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There are plenty of dev board from manufacturers under $100. They're just too bad to compete with the Arduino/Pi.
It's not fun figuring out a board with no documentation and shit tools that noone ever used.
The core problem why many startups get stuck with Raspberry Pi, Arduino and friends is exactly the "dev board" problem.
When building an MVP and I have the choice between a $20 Pi/Arduino/Pi Compute Board and a $1.000+ dev board, hell I'll choose the Pi option. Lots more support, especially because any combo of I/O and a Pi has been tried by someone else before in contrast to $weird_sensor+$weird_niche_devboard, and especially you will want about 10 or more units so you can afford to blow a couple boards. This will happen inevitably during development, either by "fat fingering" +12V to a 3V3 input or by blowing the wrong eFuse, and better to lose 20$ than 1k$, not to mention you have to raise the 10k first...