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Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 57 points 5 months ago

I think pi is on the road to mainstream. Probably time to shift to an open source hardware competitor to boost it. Not saying pi is bad, I have one and its great. Those like me who love tinkering should consider going the extra mile and „radicalize“ themselves to open hardware. The project I hear the most of is Banana-PI. https://www.banana-pi.org

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Most alternatives use Rockchips such as Rk3566 or 3588 which are better in every way to the Pi chips of their respective price points. As long as they don't use the Allwinner chips it's usually decent out of the box but still a bit lacking.

I like Orange Pi more. They have pretty good out of the box documentation and a good range of hardware.

Radxa is also an option but they seem to offer the same stuff as Orange Pi but more expensive.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you very much for pointing this out! It seems I‘ll have to read up on this stuff for my next home automation project.

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I used a lepotato on my last project in place of a pi3 but libre computer totally has rockchip boards available as well. Price wise seemed decent, documentation was decent enough for me and more importantly I could actually get one.