dear community
Single board computers have been around for decades. But honestly - I think it was the release of the first Raspberry Pi in 2012 that really drove it - that move that really brought these low-cost SBCs to the market - to the mass market. From then on, everything was different.
School classes could afford it - and teenagers, young people in general!
That's exciting - and so great! - and probably a small revolution too..
Since 2012, we have seen great advances in the software and hardware aspects of SBCs over the last 12 years - the Raspberry Pi has inspired many manufacturers around the world.
Many, many new boards came along - such as the Espressiv developments (ESP 8266 and ESP 32) - all a great success and very inspiring: many newer boards have plenty of power to not only do most desktop tasks, but also run more complex and decent frame rates, for example.
In the meantime, a number of milestones have been achieved. The RPi has become more and more mature and more powerful. The Zero and the Pico were added; and just yesterday the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was released: microcontroller board with WLAN, and the dual-dual-core microcontroller RP2350, a 4 MByte flash memory, USB, WLAN, Bluetooth, etc. etc.)
I like the RaspberryPi because of its global community for exchanging ideas. The most impressive thing is the global community of friends: it's great to see the idea generation and knowledge transfer in the forums. That's why I choose RPI over the X86 architecture for small hobby projects!!
However, there are still some areas in which the SBC industry could do more.
So, what do you want - what's on your wish list - what aspects in which SBC could be improved?
This perhaps indicates to the manufacturers to focus on the future.
What do you wish for 2025?
look forward to hear from you - and to a fruitful discussion
Single board computers have been around for decades. But honestly - I think it was the release of the first Raspberry Pi in 2012 that really drove it - that move that really brought these low-cost SBCs to the market - to the mass market. From then on, everything was different.
School classes could afford it - and teenagers, young people in general!
That's exciting - and so great! - and probably a small revolution too..
Since 2012, we have seen great advances in the software and hardware aspects of SBCs over the last 12 years - the Raspberry Pi has inspired many manufacturers around the world.
Many, many new boards came along - such as the Espressiv developments (ESP 8266 and ESP 32) - all a great success and very inspiring: many newer boards have plenty of power to not only do most desktop tasks, but also run more complex and decent frame rates, for example.
In the meantime, a number of milestones have been achieved. The RPi has become more and more mature and more powerful. The Zero and the Pico were added; and just yesterday the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was released: microcontroller board with WLAN, and the dual-dual-core microcontroller RP2350, a 4 MByte flash memory, USB, WLAN, Bluetooth, etc. etc.)
I like the RaspberryPi because of its global community for exchanging ideas. The most impressive thing is the global community of friends: it's great to see the idea generation and knowledge transfer in the forums. That's why I choose RPI over the X86 architecture for small hobby projects!!
However, there are still some areas in which the SBC industry could do more.
So, what do you want - what's on your wish list - what aspects in which SBC could be improved?
This perhaps indicates to the manufacturers to focus on the future.
What do you wish for 2025?
look forward to hear from you - and to a fruitful discussion
