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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by geerlingguy on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:04PM (#26438757)
Just noting that according to the Pi Foundation/Pi Trading, they do sell 44% of their boards to industrial customers[1], so education is definitely a primary goal, but they do have a much broader audience, and I'm sure that influences some of the decisions about what hardware and price points to target.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/for-industry/

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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by justin66 on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:17PM (#26438918)
That figure is amazing.

I interviewed in person at a leading industrial automation company over five years ago. They were looking for someone to work on ARM stuff and I was (naively) proud of the work I'd done with the original Raspberry Pi in school. The hiring manager had never even heard of the Pi...

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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday March 13, 2021 @09:05PM (#26452118)
Things have changed a lot since then. One of the well-known names in industrial automation, Opto-22, now has adapters to connect their hardware to raspberry pi. And they're not the only one.

http://developer.opto22.com/pi/

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