@arturo182 That was such a good series. (Minus the overdone laugh track.)
They tried to make an American version of that. They even got the same character to play Moss. The pilot leaked to YouTube but has since been disappeared. It was exceedingly terrible.
@gemlog @lupyuen That's the sad thing about Pi5: it misses the mark for ALL of those.
Too expensive for disposable hardware & education. (Pi Zero, Mango Pi, Ox64 hurt less to smoke. Each is < $10. All run something recognizably "Linux".)
Too wimpy for desktop/workstation use.
Not even price OR performance-competitive in its own market for net appliance, as Greeling calls out.
They released a 2020 product in 2023.
@gemlog @lupyuen - There's room for more than one "right" answer to most problems. Just be sure to frame the problem.
Even yesterday's PC is unquestionably a better PC than any Pi-like substance. My always-on Pi (3) monitors smokeping, telemetry from several devices, PiHole, and several more tasks. The comparison of electricity consumed by a PC is laughable.
Turns out that "Pi" grew to encompass a few lines: education, hardware hacking, net appliance/server, workstation, etc. Not all are $35.
I can't think of a match for S3 in RISC-V yet. WiFi + dual core + embedded UART (no external uart or JTAG needed) + >40 GPIOs through a pin MUX + USB host/device mode (full speed only. meh) + "paging" for RAM/Flash over OSPI for ~$4USD is just an IoT hobbyists dream.
Espressif fell into the trap of spray-painting yet another C906 (gross) for their upcoming "performance" P4 design, but leaves out their signature radios. Surely they'll fill that gap.
Nice company to work with. ESP32-S3: 🤙
I've spent a lot of time and deffort learning and helping build the RISC-V ecosystem on MCU-class parts. Learning more about the ESP32 ecosystem, it's not perfect, it has a lot going for it. Their naming is terrible, but the ESP32-S3 WROVER-class modules, in particular, are great. Yeah, they know they need to ditch Tensilica and move to RISC-V; they're working on that.
Their doc, code, developer support, libraries, tools are awesome. They will review your board design BEFORE you build it. (1/2)
@MoritzGiessmann I'm merely famous-adjacent, but set your expectations appropriately and go for it! Are you going to serve up ebay on it? No. Update an LCD with stats from your car or solar other IOT thingy? Easy. The S3 - esp. in larger 8 and 16MB configurations - isn't THAT far from a notebook of early 00's. 2 core, 32-bit, somewhat expandable.
esphome.io (I don't use it) may have a head start for you.
If you're wrong you're out, what, $5 and maybe learned something. Even losing is a win!
@jeffowski This is just good use of science. They're perceived as less threatening and the higher frequencies simply cut through sound floor level noise.
Survey after survey (including asking anyone who was ever a child) show that people respond better to female voices. (I could quote some, but nobody on the internet has ever changed their mind from a link from more authority sources. :-/)
I don't think it's about mind-control, but about telling you things you can hear and will think are true.