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by paxys 2087 days ago
Yeesh $35 for a single button presser?
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People frequently spend that on a night at the bar/movies/bowling. Why is this a worse use of money?
I mean, for a power supply, bluetooth receiver/chipset, actuator... I don't think I cobble together something half as good for twice as much, and that's not factoring in labor.
It's really about the economies of scale. You can get entire computers for $35.
You can get an entire RPi computer for $10. It all depends on what you call a computer.