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  • Price? Tiny/mini/micro PC

    Simple sensor use? ESP32

    Complex GPIO? Arduino is still a cheap option if you dont need it too standalone.

    Straight up pi-alikes? OrangePi is my preferred

    Most of what I personally use is esp32s and tiny/mini/micro. TMM for servers and services, esp32s for sensors, interfaces, prototyping, etc. If I need something fully standalone thats going to go in a rack or whatever, needs to be small and have all the GPIO, thats where I’ll use an orangpi, clockwork, whatever. Ive even used a tinkerboard or a Jetson (client paying obviously, because screw those prices and nvidia).





  • I’m using windows 10 mostly, but I have another one made recently for win 11 because of another stupid manufacturer with stupid requirements.

    Once I made the first VM, I made a clone. The clone is what gets the software installation, the original just stays stored on my NAS so I can clone again as stupid manufacturers distribute stupid software that requires windows. I name each VM based on the app its going to run.

    Some are a suite of apps and companion applications, some are just a singular application.














  • Kind of the other way around there, starting with markdown to make a mindmap. Not that I haven’t used mermaid (though I’ll be candid, I mostly hate how mermaid renderers work and the layouts can get real funky real quick), but I’m more going the other way around. Start dropping stuff into a map, then sort it out after. For concepting things out, I like a GUI better. For documenting something existing, mermaid is a perfect decent option.