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Re:A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 by drb91 on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:18PM (#18268971)
While this is true, why not just get a raspberry pi zero or whatever?
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Re:A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 by gkm25 on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:22PM (#18279811)
Developing on an ESP8266 is completely different than a RasPi Zero. If you want a challenge, and want to write code that can run in 80KB of RAM and have the code and all of its dependencies fit in 4MB of flash, then that’s part of the reason why microcontrollers are popular (also because a lot of them are easy to get going with).
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Re:A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 by drb91 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:33AM (#18281977)
Great answer, thank you :)
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Re:A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 by ktta on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:24PM (#18269003)
It is cheaper
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Re:A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 by drb91 on Sunday October 21, 2018 @02:32PM (#18269393)
If we’re evaluating cost, surely micropython is at least $5 of lost functionality for a single chip. Only at scale would you see any savings.
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