Pizero or Omega2 - help me decide!

Helo Jeremiah,

I add my opinion. I think that the choice should be on Pi Zero for some pragmatic reasons that should condition your choice. You want to start - no matter your current skill level - putting your feet into this (you say). Ok so the choice is implicit, Pi Zero. Let me explain. I think you are almost prepared to be in front of a sort of a new personal challenge: understanding how the embedded works, make experiments, experience languages and Linux on embedded devices and hopefully meet other users in this community (but not only) who shares their knowledge that is the most valuable  value for your goals.

With these premises your initial post shows the clear evidence that you will start from something stable and reliable, having no problems to decide if the bugs you meet (expect to meet bugs and problems anyway ) depends on the board or your mistakes. By one side there is Pi Zero, a stable machine that has already its own history with previous versions born by the experience of thousand of units already sold and - extremely important - it is the most recent child derived by a project developed by a good team of engineers on the market with 10 millions of devices by some years.

By the other side there is a recent project, without great advantages that accordingly with stiriac it is almost uncomplete. To this add the fact that the Omega project has its own form factor, its own standard and a dramatically reduced number of options to buy accessories with a very low level of compatibility with other (including the PI, obviously) embedded boards.

Last but not least, in this scenario pricing has no influence as it is essentially the same.

Enrico

Helo Jeremiah,

I add my opinion. I think that the choice should be on Pi Zero for some pragmatic reasons that should condition your choice. You want to start - no matter your current skill level - putting your feet into this (you say). Ok so the choice is implicit, Pi Zero. Let me explain. I think you are almost prepared to be in front of a sort of a new personal challenge: understanding how the embedded works, make experiments, experience languages and Linux on embedded devices and hopefully meet other users in this community (but not only) who shares their knowledge that is the most valuable  value for your goals.

With these premises your initial post shows the clear evidence that you will start from something stable and reliable, having no problems to decide if the bugs you meet (expect to meet bugs and problems anyway ) depends on the board or your mistakes. By one side there is Pi Zero, a stable machine that has already its own history with previous versions born by the experience of thousand of units already sold and - extremely important - it is the most recent child derived by a project developed by a good team of engineers on the market with 10 millions of devices by some years.

By the other side there is a recent project, without great advantages that accordingly with stiriac it is almost uncomplete. To this add the fact that the Omega project has its own form factor, its own standard and a dramatically reduced number of options to buy accessories with a very low level of compatibility with other (including the PI, obviously) embedded boards.

Last but not least, in this scenario pricing has no influence as it is essentially the same.

Enrico

By all means select RPi. But select an enclosure that is Flexible. I chose the Pi-TopCEED:

(L-R) are: (a) "Hub" board that comes w/ Pi-TopCEED, has HDMI input which drive the 14" LCD Screen,

provides +5VDC via a USB-A -full-size Receptacle, many other options/connectors. (b) RPiZW (on top

of Prototype(ing) Board. {BTW RPiZW works w/ "2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie"), (c) Up SBC (x64 Intel

Atom Processor) running WIN10Pro-64bit

Flexibility works for me

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