PCIe card with GPIO?
Comment on Raspberry Pi prices are rising again by up to $60
ramble81@lemmy.zip 17 hours agoGranted this is a gaming sub so that view makes sense, however for specialized applications where you need the GPIO pins or space/power is a large factor they’re still needed and this is gonna suck.
rollerbang@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
ramble81@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Except a PCIe GPIO card is bigger the the entirety of a Pi, let alone the entire computer and still suffers from power draw issues. On the software side I don’t know how well that would work as there already are a lot of GPIO SDKs a libraries specifically targeted at the Pi.
ralakus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If space isn’t the biggest factor, you can get the micro-pc and connect a microcontroller like a raspberry pi pico via USB or serial and write a driver to interface between the two systems (or use something like micro-ros). It’s not the best in extremely space constrained situations or areas where the connectors could come apart though
michael@piefed.chrisco.me 15 hours ago
Yeah it sucks. I know there are alternatives like the orange pi that are cheaper but the software support just isnt as good.
End of an era.