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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!

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[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's the issue ultimately. The ESP32 chips are nice and easy to use but still pale in comparison to getting things working on a pi for the average developer without embedded experience. These devs may not even know they exist to be completely honest.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was working with a buddy on a "startup" that was more of a hobby than anything (and didn't go anywhere). The early prototypes were controlled by Arduino and Pis early on -- ease of software development was key as we experimented with and dialed in the hardware. The later prototypes used an ESP32 though, because we're aren't idiots.

I'm a hobbyist at best: it kills me that there are well paid "professional embedded software engineers" out there that can't work with actual embedded hardware. All I could think of was this article on electrical engineers that can't solder. The complete lack of real world, hands on experience with the hardware blows my mind.

[-] Meltbox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yup. This is really the worst part. I am a village idiot. So if i do it at home that’s fine.

But then again the shit I see at work sometimes…

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