Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle
www.tomshardware.com
Where was this knowledge when the Pi supply was low?

Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!

  • @[email protected]English
    58•11 months ago

    I mean, the cold reality is that they developed and released a perfect piece of hardware for industrial automation and sold it for pennies in comparison to other industrial computer boards.

    Industry will always have deeper pockets than hobbyists.

    • @[email protected]English
      48•11 months ago

      It’s far from industrial quality, but it still is getting used there. There’s a reason it’s a fraction of the cost of a proper PLC.

      • @[email protected]English
        23•11 months ago

        Yep, exactly.

        If you can buy 10 Pis for the cost of one real PLC, and the only downtime you have if it fails is the time to swap the board and boot the machine back up it’s a no-brainer solution.

    • @[email protected]English
      20•11 months ago

      It’s not just that. If the Pi Foundation has to make a choice between fulfilling an order for 100 pis for a company so that the company can keep making products and meeting payroll vs. 100 hobbyists that want to make their own one-off project, which is the more moral use of resources?

      Yeah, those companies should probably not have chosen a pi board to power their products but that’s only noticeable in hindsight.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•11 months ago

          It’s amazing to me that there isn’t anything comparable to a fanlinc or keypad linc. RIP in peace insteon

    • @MeowoemEnglish
      6•11 months ago

      They also bent over backwards to help industrial buyers get them while flat out refusing to help content creators and Devs of open source projects that use the pi - it was really disappointing tbh

      Still love them though but not as much as I used to.