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Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink

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133 points tosh | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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whatever1 ◴[02 Apr 25 04:29 UTC] No.43553680[source]▶
At what point does one decides that a microcontroller doesn’t cut it and moves to a full OS system like rpi?

For example this could be an esp32 project

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1. NikkiA ◴[02 Apr 25 09:12 UTC] No.43554912[source]▶
Probably at about the point you look at implementing a network stack on a microcontroller that isn't the ESP32.

Yes, this could have been a ESP32 project, because that has a network stack included, but it doesn't have an LVDS LCD interface, so you're going to have to implement one or the other on any 'simple' microcontroller.