Re:Raspberry Pi CEO: ‘Million-Unit Months’ Are Ahead
by Kirby64 on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:20PM
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If you're into making custom stuff that fits whatever connector/pinout/etc exists, then yeah you can make almost any of these SBCs work just fine, no debate there. My point being there's an infrastructure built around Raspberry Pis that as of yet is not nearly as robust for other SBCs.
Is it worth like, $150 for a scalped Pi4? Almost certainly not. But I'd hesitate to say they're just strictly better. They're just different, and have different limitations.
Some of the more complex Adafruit / Pimoroni / Seeed hats are very specifically written for Raspberry GPIO, sure, but they have the problem of keeping you on an old OS after a year or two, unless you're willing to put in the same amount of effort as porting their examples to a different GPIO layout.