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points by nfriedly 2 days ago | 0 comments

The original Pi Zero was $5, although it probably uses more power than an esp32.

[–] jszymborski 2 days ago

IIRC that was the MSRP but you could never find them at that price.

[–] officeplant 17 hours ago

The original pi zero even had $0.99 price moments at Microcenter with a limit of one per customer.

[–] overfeed 1 day ago

> you could never find them at that price.

Microcenter sold it for $5, limited to 1 per customer. Additional ones were $15 each.

[–] aimor 1 day ago

And on Pi Day they were $3.14. I'd go every year, it's a neat little machine.

[–] ssl-3 1 day ago

For awhile, I picked up yet-another Pi Zero W every time I went into Microcenter for $5.

It was a wonderful time to live nearby.

[–] dansquizsoft 2 days ago

Yeah the price was always a bit of a con (even if it was a great product!)

[–] Beached 2 days ago

it is also more capable than an esp32. Im dinking around with both. esp32 is very restrictive in its compute capacity. It isnt multifunctional at all either.

A pi zero is to play with, an esp32 is so tiny, that it is more of a build for a single thing, and then set it and forget it doing that single thing.

You cant really stack more and more cool stuff onto it and keep building on it.

[–] everforward 1 day ago

That’s why esp-idf has components. I have a bunch of components that are basically “compile if this SDK config is set, otherwise pretend you’re an empty file” using macros.

Then I just pull in all my components. The ones I use will get compiled, the ones I don’t won’t.

Mostly works fine. Eventually you will run out of NVRAM to save binaries on, but another esp-32 is like $3.