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I sort of left the hobbyist electronics world back in 2018, and now everything seems to have an embedded Raspberry Pi in it. What's the best way to catch up? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ch00f@lemmy.world to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de

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I'm an EE by trade focusing on embedded devices, but most of my work is in relatively low-power STM32 applications. When I stopped following developments in hobby kits, it was mostly Arduino Unos slowly driving I2C OLED displays.

Now suddenly, there are embedded Raspberry Pis and ESP32s doing realtime facial recognition and video feeds.

Is there a good place to look to catch up on what's now possible with these embedded devices?

Also, while I enjoy the ease of the hobby kits, I'm also interested in more mass-production-focused solutions.

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[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

It's not that you can't make a more efficient device without it. Hell, if you wanted to impress people, you can absolutely populate a board with IC's and traces and build your own logic.

Orrrrr you could spend $45 to get a full GPIO header backed behind a vast online electronics community. Tbh pi's, arduinos, and other ARM core hobby kits give you a root skillset to base any project on. Once you can get logic through your code, there'e no need to figure out wire logic if you can program based on I/O and software variables. But it -is- a different skillset that you'll need to learn to use it efficiently.