[trevvr]

There was at least one NUC with a full GPIO header set. The DE3815TYKHE. I've done motor control, I2C and sensor IO with it and it was rock solid on that little NUC.

There was also the UP Board which was an Atom SOC with PI compatible GPIO. I believe that's still in production?!

[moffkalast]

Oh wow that's the first I'm seeing that, looks like it's still available though a bit pricey for over 1 GB of memory.

https://up-shop.org/up-board-series.html

Then again that is severely dated, the Atom was a very capable processor... when it launched, almost a decade ago.

[robotnikman]

Wow, I never knew they had x86 boards like this. The fact that its x86 is a huge deal itself in itself, due to more software/distro compatibility.