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Show HN: Pinoccio

5 pointsby hodgesmrover 10 years ago

2 comments

yellowappleover 10 years ago
I like the concept, but it seems... expensive.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just spoiled by the Raspberry Pi, but I&#x27;m having trouble swallowing a $60 machine (and that&#x27;s without any of the other gizmos that attach to it) when there are examples of products in the same niche that come out to a bit more than half that. Does the fancy low-power radio really cost that much?<p>On the other hand, I don&#x27;t think the Arduino or the various other prototyping&#x2F;microcontroller boards like this are any less-ridiculously priced, so maybe this is actually competitive and sane relatively-speaking. It still seems strange, however.<p>On the third hand, I suppose I could just download the schematics, source everything out, and figure out how to build it by hand. I have a feeling it would end up cheaper, even without being able to take advantage of bulk rates on the components.
andreashansenover 10 years ago
How does this compare to, let&#x27;s say, Spark Core or Spark Photon?