I remember when the RP2040 and the Pico came out and some people scoffed at it because it didn't have wifi built in, asking what the hell is it good for if you can't connect it to anything? You know, like no one ever built anything with an Intel MCS-51 before, even though it was the standard for anything that used a microcontroller for decades and decades.Sorry this is not any criticism, but after 3-4 years working with various raspberry pi boards, I failed to understand why it is made?
Sure it can be a good hobby project for college students who can showcase some programming skills and automation..
GPIO pins are great, hardware and software are robost...
But can we use it in any serious application without having hardware accel computer vision, opencl.. Pi not having any AI support at hw level.
Running these AI / computer vision algos on CPU is not going to help.... Sadly there is no plan on providing even a very basic AI API
Without HW accel AI where raspberry pi foundation is aiming go, how far.... ,!!!
One can build a robot or home surveillance but if your software cannot understand images.. Then what is the point...?
RPi has tried to become one fit for all problems and not single thing worked satisfactorily, 4-5 years ago rpi boards were our choice for making a home surveillance system..
Now various vendors have come up with their flashy IPCam hardware, sure it is not customizable but they work amazingly....
Your thinking is as myopic as those people were. And I mean no offense.
Can you honestly NOT think of anything that did not work without computer vision or AI, ever before?
The millions of Pis sold before today, around half of all of them, do all those things you are not capable of thinking of.
One could try to make a very convincing argument that the failure isn't on a board that seems to not be able to do much, but with your innability to come up with something useful to do with the board that fits within its specs.
I will also add that the board was never meant to do very much other than get kids to play with computers by being cheap. Yet it is so versatile and capable that the hacking/diy crowd picked it up and kept on pushing it to its limits, and the little board kept on delivering. Many other boards tried to copy it, most failed. For it size and price, it is a marvelous piece of hardware. But you do have to have what it takes to make something meaning pful out of it.
I'll say it again: Millions.
Statistics: Posted by memjr — Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:53 am