I got one of these recently. It was ridiculously easy to just install stock debs on.
Every time I look at the wall wart plug pack it comes with I laugh to myself. 8W.
In terms of price, speed and compatibility the Raspberry Pi looks laughable.
If I want GPIO I just use ESP32s with wifi. I am then unconstrained in terms of other stuff hanging off them. Using the new nano ESP32 boards I can just hot glue them to whatever I want to talk to.
Even ~2000, that might still have squeezed you into the bottom of the list? Note that power consumption of above system will have been in the 10s if not 100s of kW. To say nothing of size or purchase price.
That's only 1 human generation ago. What on Earth are you doing with these things? Running physics simulations of nuclear explosions, or what?
Every time I look at the wall wart plug pack it comes with I laugh to myself. 8W. In terms of price, speed and compatibility the Raspberry Pi looks laughable.
If I want GPIO I just use ESP32s with wifi. I am then unconstrained in terms of other stuff hanging off them. Using the new nano ESP32 boards I can just hot glue them to whatever I want to talk to.