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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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[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Oh so that's why you can't buy them anymore, people are using them as microcontrollers.

[–] dan@upvote.au 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Pis are pretty commonly used in industrial automation use cases (production lines, robot arms, etc) too. They're not the best thing for those use cases, but they're far cheaper than anything else, and anyone with basic programming knowledge can get something running on them, rather than having to find someone experienced with embedded systems (usually in C or C++).

When there were major supply chain issues, a lot of the limited supply was going towards those use cases, as the companies using them had already placed large orders very far in advance.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“When there were”, implying you can find a pi4 in stock right now that isn’t from a scalper

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