Subj : Re: Raspberry Pi in commercial products
To   : tenser
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Dec 10 2023 09:29:59

  Re: Re: Raspberry Pi in commercial products
  By: tenser to Nightfox on Mon Dec 11 2023 05:17 am

 Ni>> Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you can
 Ni>> do with open-source stuff.  Something I was wondering about recently was,
 Ni>> I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I suppose) aren't being
 Ni>> adoped & used more for commercial products.

 te> Well, what would that look like?  Would these be things that end users
 te> would run on devices that they own, or would the Raspberry Pis be used
 te> only as a development/testing/deployment platform for hosted software?

I was thinking something that end users would run - But I was thinking mainly of applications where the end user might be someone inside a company doing something for the company, rather than a home user.  For instance, I've worked at a couple high-tech companies that make devices that take a silicon wafer and scan it with a laser & such to generate an image, so you can look closely at the surface for defects.  They often use a PC with Windows, with their own custom software, to interface with the wafer scanner to collect data.

Another software project I worked on was working on a Windows program to interface with a medical cart (to manage drawers and user access).  It interfaced with the cart via a serial port.

These are things I was thinking could probably done with a Raspberry Pi running Linux, rather than a PC running Windows.

 te> There are also issues of volume.  RPis were pretty unavailable due to
 te> pandemic-related supply-chain issues over the last few years.

Yeah, that's definiately a problem.  But there are also similar things available that are comparable to the Raspberry Pi (which is why I said "and similar" in my original post).

Nightfox
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