RE: It's early days29 Jul 2024 17:57
LOL, yes, that's MSN's automatic ad pulled-in happens a lot. But it does make your point if you read further down.
"Each of the SBCs made by both of these companies offers a wide variety of different applications, but one of the biggest differences between the two is that the community of private developers designing applications for the Raspberry Pi's hardware, architecture, and software systems is significantly bigger.
In addition to the official Raspberry Pi forum, you can find dozens of projects listed on sites like Reddit, Tom's Hardware, Instructables, All3DP, and even here on SlashGear. There are Raspberry Pi projects out there for your kitchen, home office, garage, hang out spaces, bedroom, back yard, open garden, and just about any other space you can think of. This network of communal resources is one of the brand's biggest selling points.
Banana Pi's community isn't nearly as big. There are a handful of projects for the company's SBCs out there. There are several listed on the official forum and then Ionos and hackster.io each list a dozen or so. It seems that the Banana Pi is much better suited to tinkerers and developers who want to create their own projects than makers who want to follow or adapt pre-designed projects."