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It was a fun run.

I hope someone else comes up with a similar product soon.

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I’m pretty sure there are a lot of similar boards out there

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OrangePi comes to mind.

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Banana Pis are great

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RIP

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Well, so much for that I guess

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Yeah its really too bad. I used to love the company but now I just don’t see them making things for hobbies. Anyone know of some good alternatives? Ive heard good things about lepotato?

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Lattepanda mu is apparently a very powerful alternative.

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I have been using Odroid boards for many years. I currently have 3 C4 boards and 1 older C1 board. My kids use them as their computer in their rooms. Hardkernel is the company behind the boards, they also provided the official Home assistant blue devices that came pre installed with HASS.

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Oh! Great idea - kid’s computer. I’ll be stealing that for my next project. Thank you!

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They were never about hobbies. We were a niche that they were happy to have, but they never cared. Origionally it was about education (which has a large overlap with hobbies so they served well).

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OrangePI

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I had one and returned it. The hardware was good but the software was total ass

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Goodnight, sweet prince.

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Guess I should stock up while I can huh?

I’ve been a RPI fan since the beginning and have used their boards for all sorts of projects and tinkering. But it’s hard not to feel like it’s losing sight of what made it attractive in the first place: low power and low priced computing. It had its charm in buying a Pi Zero and just chucking emulators on it and handing them out to folks who might want to have a go.

But with the more expensive, more powerful hardware you just can’t really use them for things like that anymore. Just too expensive and too much oomph for the use case.

We’ll see if the company finds its way. But this usually isn’t a good sign…

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