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by fellowmartian 1051 days ago
You’d only do that if you absolutely have to, eg when you’re very constrained by battery or you do actually need real time guarantees. Getting a device with Wi-Fi, BLE, GPS, logging, camera, etc working on a RTOS is just unreasonably complicated when you have a huge battery and 2W power consumption of the SBC is dwarfed by a kilowatt motor.