Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you can do w
For anything requiring a computer, I feel like often, companies decide on a
I feel like many times, a Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on ses, I think it could save significant money. And if software is needed, th
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Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you can
do with open-source stuff. Something I was wondering about recently
was, I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I suppose) aren't being adoped & used more for commercial products.
For anything requiring a computer, I feel like often, companies decide
on a desktop or laptop computer running Windows (which requires buying a license) or perhaps a Mac system, and perhaps developing a software program to run on that computer if needed. I feel like many times, a Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on it, would be perfectly suitable and would be much cheaper than buying a standard laptop/desktop with a commercial OS. I know this wouldn't be true for all cases, but
for many cases, I think it could save significant money. And if
software is needed, there are good software development tools for
creating software for Linux.
I have seen plenty companies building their own solutions in house using RPis or similar boards and then deploying them. You just don't see them because they run in a blackbox behind the scenes.
Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you can
do with open-source stuff. Something I was wondering about recently was,
I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I suppose) aren't being
adoped & used more for commercial products.
Well, what would that look like? Would these be things that end users would run on devices that they own, or would the Raspberry Pis be used only as a development/testing/deployment platform for hosted software?
There are also issues of volume. RPis were pretty unavailable due to pandemic-related supply-chain issues over the last few years.
Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on it, would be perfectly suitable and would be much cheaper than buying a standard laptop/desktop with a commercial OS. I know this wouldn't be true for all cases, but
for many cases, I think it could save significant money. And if
software is needed, there are good software development tools for
creating software for Linux.
Nightfox
Re: Re: Raspberry Pi in commercial products
By: tenser to Nightfox on Mon Dec 11 2023 05:17 am
Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you
do with open-source stuff. Something I was wondering about recently
I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I suppose) aren't bei
adoped & used more for commercial products.
Well, what would that look like? Would these be things that end user would run on devices that they own, or would the Raspberry Pis be use only as a development/testing/deployment platform for hosted software
I was thinking something that end users would run - But I was thinking mainly of applications where the end user might be someone inside a company doing something for the company, rather than a home user. For instance, I've worked at a couple high-tech companies that make devices that take a silicon wafer and scan it with a laser & such to generate an image, so you can look closely at the surface for defects. They often
use a PC with Windows, with their own custom software, to interface with the wafer scanner to collect data.
Another software project I worked on was working on a Windows program to interface with a medical cart (to manage drawers and user access). It interfaced with the cart via a serial port.
These are things I was thinking could probably done with a Raspberry Pi running Linux, rather than a PC running Windows.
There are also issues of volume. RPis were pretty unavailable due to pandemic-related supply-chain issues over the last few years.
Yeah, that's definiately a problem. But there are also similar things available that are comparable to the Raspberry Pi (which is why I said "and similar" in my original post).
Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on it, would be perfectly
suitable and would be much cheaper than buying a standard laptop/desktop
with a commercial OS. I know this wouldn't be true for all cases, but
for many cases, I think it could save significant money. And if software
is needed, there are good software development tools for creating
software for Linux.
I feel this is mostly true. I haven't used the the 5 yet but video playback online had been a bit of an issue. Youtube really bogs down and most streaming services do as well. Now if you put a dedicated system in like kody then it seems to work better.
Another software project I worked on was working on a Windows program to
interface with a medical cart (to manage drawers and user access). It
interfaced with the cart via a serial port.
Honestly, any "Pi-like" ARM SBC would likely be too unreliable for something like that. I don't see why you couldn't run Linux on an inexpensive x86 (or workstation-class ARM) machine and reap many of the same benefits, though. Again, it's about the TCO over the lifetime of the device, not just the initial capital cost; for both of these applications, I imagine that the cost of the computer is a fraction over the overall cost, anyway.
Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you[...]
can do with open-source stuff. Something I was wondering about
recently was, I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I
suppose) aren't being adoped & used more for commercial products.
program to run on that computer if needed. I feel like many times, a Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on it, would be
perfectly suitable and would be much cheaper than buying a standard laptop/desktop with a commercial OS. I know this wouldn't be true for
I have four Pi's inistalled at a client site. 3 are Pi3's and one is a Pi4. They are connected to aprox 40" LCD TV's and are used to display the job board of outgoing cars (Car repair business). They have been in operation now for approx 4 years for the 3's and two for the pi4.
They had great results with the first unit, so added 1 another and then the final unit's the past few years.
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