This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute.

This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected faucet.

> $5 compute

Unrelated but the author at Tom's Hardware is apparently unaware of AliExpress so they bumped the price from $2 (or less) to $5. And that's the price for just one. These things are so cheap you can throw them in everything. They're the perfect alternative to a Raspberry Pi because they have WiFi, Bluetooth, lots of GPIO, and decent compute. Not enough to run Linux but you don't need Linux for IoT.

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Scoundreller a day ago | parent [-]

I just bought an ESP32-C3 with a tiiiiny 0.42" LCD screen for CAD$3 from Aliexpress off their "Choice" items menu.

	▲	Rohansi a day ago \| parent [-]
		And on the higher end you can get an ESP32 CYD (Cheap Yellow Display) which has a 2.8" or larger touch screen, SD card slot, LiPo battery connection and charger, speaker port, and maybe more for ~$15. Can make fancy UIs for it with LVGL or install something like MicroPythonOS on it if you have PSRAM. https://lvgl.io/ https://micropythonos.com/

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xboxnolifes a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's very little compute going on in this chip. It's a few hashes per second. Which is to say you can do a lot with $5 of compute if you can figure out how to not need to use a lot of compute.

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bombcar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

A pregamgamanagany test can be $5 and apparently it can run doom, so in bulk compute has to be pretty cheap.