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
    22•11 months ago

    It’s a lot cheaper than getting an EE to design you a more efficient bespoke solution.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•11 months ago

      Could just buy an ESP32 board instead, at least that doesn’t suck down power and need to boot Linux to function.

      • @Meowoem
        English
        5•11 months ago

        They probably could have used a Pico, certainly a zero instead of a 4

      • @[email protected]English
        1•11 months ago

        This is what I mean. It’s not like they are running some kind of image processing or literally anything heavy.

        Just seems way over the top. Also my bet is it they didn’t bother with bespoke hardware they probably didn’t do much to power optimize.