|
| ▲ | devmor 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Those are entirely different operational models. While people do often use pis to do things you could do with an esp32, an ESP32 cannot do the majority of things a Pi can do. |
| |
| ▲ | Rohansi an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Over time the Raspberry Pi use case shifted more and more away from GPIO. They all still have it but probably most of them are used as a Linux computer without ever touching the GPIO now. The people who do use GPIO on a Raspberry Pi are often better off using an ESP32 because they have better control of GPIO, consume far less power, and are actually cheap. Personally I use ESP32s for GPIO to control things around the house and have one Raspberry Pi acting as a hub. | | |
| ▲ | alextheparrot an hour ago | parent [-] | | their RP1 IO chip is such a disappointment for high performance GPIO use cases as well, literally can’t trust any IO decision they make after having hacked on that chip |
| |
| ▲ | bdcravens 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In many cases that’s an advantage. Tiny (or no) attack surface, less power, etc |
|
|
| ▲ | nfriedly 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The original Pi Zero was $5, although it probably uses more power than an esp32. |
| |
| ▲ | jszymborski 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | IIRC that was the MSRP but you could never find them at that price. | | | |
| ▲ | Beached 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | it is also more capable than an esp32. Im dinking around with both. esp32 is very restrictive in its compute capacity. It isnt multifunctional at all either. A pi zero is to play with, an esp32 is so tiny, that it is more of a build for a single thing, and then set it and forget it doing that single thing. You cant really stack more and more cool stuff onto it and keep building on it. |
|
