I agree. PI by itself is boring. You plug it in and you have... a shitty desktop.
Need some sensors and associated electronics or just drop down a level to an arduino so theres no OS baggage and things are less magical.
Need some sensors and associated electronics or just drop down a level to an arduino so theres no OS baggage and things are less magical.
Then point them at chatgpt and see what happens haha.
The only novelty of a PI or a audrino is the pins.
That's. The. Point.
Instead of a closed down consumer hardware like a phone, tab, laptop, there's something that you can physically expand, read data from nature using it, and make changes directly in the physical world using code.
That's fantastic and exciting.
The pins are the point.
> there's something that you can physically expand, read data from nature using it, and make changes directly in the physical world using code.
You can't do this with _just_ a RPI though.
A RPI without any extra sensors or electronics is just a desktop.