Then you should take a good hard look at older, much cheaper Raspberry Pis.

Then look at Apple’s ARM offerings, and AWS Graviton if you need ARM with raw power.

If you need embedded/GPIO you should consider an Arduino, or clone. If you need GPIOs and Internet connectivity, look at an ESP32. GPIOs, ARM and wired ethernet? Consdier the the STM32H.

Robotics/machine vision applications, needing IO and lots of compute power? Consider a regular PC with an embedded processor on serial or USB. Or nvidia jetson if you want to run CUDA stuff.

And take a good hard look at your assumptions, as mini PCs using the Intel N100 CPU are very competitive with modern Pis.

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kortex 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There are a lot of reasons you probably would want a Pi over an ESP32 (or in addition to one), e.g. you want GPIO, plus, internet connectivity, and want to run certain linux programs (e.g. full python, not micropython), or need timesharing, or any number of reasons you might want a linux box over an embedded.

But single board computers with something external to do your GPIO is often way more compelling.

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privatelypublic 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've heard nothing but horror stories on the Jetson & Tegra in general. I'd Avoid it unless the project MUST use a SoM w/ CUDA. which will basically only be Professional stuff. I've never heard of anything hobby level where a PCIe slot was a deal breaker- even with high vibration. (PCIe 4.0 isn't terrible difficult to get good flex cables for)

	▲	Computer0 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I hate my Jetson, and the hardware is fine for my purpose.

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greenavocado 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

N100s absolutely curb stomp Pis and have very good video hardware encoders/decoders to boot

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jaredhallen 3 days ago | parent [-]

A different thread on here the other day seemed to come to the consensus that if you're considering an N100, you may as well go with a low end Ryzen. And for much the same reasoning being used here. Seems to be a little bit of a slippery slope.

	▲	Computer0 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have looked at it extensively and the Ryzen never is available at the pricing of an n100. Though it would offer a lot more performance.
	▲	c0wb0yc0d3r 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you or someone can find that thread I would find it an interesting read. My cursory research indicates that a low end ryzen would make sense if you are building the board yourself. Right now, I haven’t found a new ryzen mini pc sub 200$. New N100 minis can be had for 150-175$, and if you don’t care so much about power N95 minis are even cheaper.

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bschwindHN 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> If you need embedded/GPIO you should consider an Arduino, or clone. If you need GPIOs and Internet connectivity, look at an ESP32

I would throw in the RP2040 for consideration as well, and nRF chips if you need wireless connectivity.