is Raspberry Pi 3 the best bang for your buck? or are there cheaper+superior

>>58933240
yay #feminism

>>58933269
thanks for the bump

>>58933240
>are there cheaper+superior single-board computers?
Yes, but you probably don't want to deal with their chink tier software support.

Try your single board shit on the RPi3 first and consider a more powerful board if and only if the Pi is not enough.

>>58933327
couldn't I just run linux on them like any other board?

My project is to build a drone with it.

>>58933352
The official Linux images for some of those "better than Pi" boards tend to be ancient versions crudely hacked into supporting the hardware, mutilated beyond any hope of merging with the mainstream kernel. With no docs. Not sure they'd bother even if they spoke English.
Sometimes no source code even because it seems to be impossible to contact the people who made the images.

>>58933240
odroid

>>58933286
sage exists

but anyway, get a parallella

>>58933539
>parallella
why is it good?

>>58933604
everything a RPi has plus an extra processor with 18 cores that you can do cool things with

still, if you're just using it to play your midget hentai on your TV or serve files, probably unnecessary

>>58933683
what's the price difference

>>58933768
stfw

>>58933683
Why is it so fucking expensive though

>>58933778
>$100
>fucking expensive

neets get a job

>>58933804
Well it will never be able to compete with raspi's with such a price difference

>>58933901
it's in a different niche, it isn't competing in the first place. raspis have mediocre performance.

>>58933240
orangePi

way better bang for buck ratio.

>>58933240
There is cheaper boards and there is superior boards.
The advantage of the pi is it is a decent platform and everyone knows about it.
This simplifies the choice when you have to make an embedded system.
Selecting the hardware for a personal assistant, git server or need a linux box on your mobile robot? The PI is great for these things.
If you need more power, you probably need a lot more power or if you need less, you probably need a lot less.

So making a shield for a pi is safe.

>>58933963
Is it reliable?
It looks like chinese knock-off shit

>>58933240
rpi3 sucks

>>58934140
care to elaborate?

>>58933503
You can create your own image relatively easy.

>>58934125
it's literally the same hardware. Same build quality.