Atomic Pi: A Raspberry-Pi alternative with an Intel processor, less than US$35

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4 points·throwaway3157··4 comments

> At the time of writing, it is only possible to buy the device directly from Digital Loggers, which only ship to the US.

And they show a $59 price. (*edit: However, the amazon link does show it available at $34)

in the meantime, Adafruit will sell you a $35 Rpi4 1 and 2gb right now:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4292

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4295

Which I have to suggest almost everyone should do.

You might be looking at the price that includes the breakout board.

https://dlidirect.com/products/atomic-pi?variant=21555036979...

The device by itself is showing $35.88

https://dlidirect.com/products/atomic-pi?variant=21343701794...

The top two items in the drop down menu should probably be swapped to make more sense - first the board, and THEN the board-plus.

I didn't even realize why there were so many unrelated images until I saw your reply here.

EDIT: Having said that, I just went through the other items in the dropdown and discovered you can get one for cheaper than RPi if you don't need the missing bits.

It does have some nice features. 16Gb of eMMC so you can get away with not buying an SD card or net booting. It also has compass and gyro on board. And there's a powered realtime clock (although I don't care about that given ntp and all).

But the form factor is way larger, and requires more amperage from the PSU. The page says it "eats RPi for desert" but it isn't all that much faster - I doubt it is noticeably faster - and only has half the memory of RPi's current max. There are other things than CPU speed to take into account when it comes to eating anything for lunch, so I could be wrong there.

So, pros and cons, it does still look like a good product.

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