As of December 2022 Semiconductor shortage has led to various companies searching for alternate options that are in stock or have longer term availability. One such example is the availability of Raspberry Pi, Toradex older versions, etc. MyIrtech has an extensive portfolio of such equivalents. https://www.myirtech.com/ There was a need to support a client who needed a browser preferably chrome and apache and php. One requirement was to support serial port via PHP modules, needing the not actively maintained DIO module Why anybody would use serial port via apache definitely weird, but maybe the customer only had that as the default skill An NXP imx8 SBC MYS-8MMX was found to be suitable wrt the application needs. Its an imx8 quad 1.8G cores and also a single 400 MHz microcontroller. 2GB DDR4 and 8GB emmc, with USB Host, NVME, gig E, WIFI/BT, MIPI CSI, LVDS/HDMI output, etc All for a cost of 100 USD. And with a 7 inch display would work out to say 20k INR ...
Teeny space in the WebVerse to shamelessly brag (document) about things that were attempted, things that worked and that did not, both in the professional and hobby fronts. Topics include hacking, modding, new ideas/ways of doing things in many domains (electronics hardware/software, making stuff, mechanical, etc). Maybe to inspire, learn, ignore or forget. It might not work for you. Try at your own risk. Thank you for stopping by and would be delighted to hear from you.