Is Raspberry Pi the Cheapest Option to Get into Robotics?

Last weekend I watched a team of high-schoolers in Shenzhen cobble together a cardboard-wheeled rover from scrap plywood and a beaten-up Pi Zero. Their entire budget? Roughly the price of three bubble-teas. That moment hammered home a simple truth: in hobby and classroom robotics, cheap is not a buzzword—it is oxygen. In this post I […]