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Enough with the Pi Hype

Posted Jul 20, 2012 1:26 UTC (Fri) by shapr (guest, #9077)
In reply to: Enough with the Pi Hype by jmorris42
Parent article: Hardware Hacks: The Raspberry Pi is everywhere (The H)

I'd say the hype comes from these projects being done with a $35 widget. $35 fits into the budget of almost everyone.

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Posted Jul 20, 2012 17:23 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

I don't see how that's relevant though. They replaced a $150 component with a $35 one, but the rest of the hardware probably costs 2 orders of magnitude more anyway.