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Philip Munts <philip.munts@gmail.com> writes:
> Anything on mains power should be running Linux.  The networking
> capabilities and development tools are just so far beyond
> microcontrollers.

That's an interesting comment that I've been remembering.

Do you happen to have measured the power consumption of the PocketBeagle
when a) idle, b) running full cpu?

I think the world needs a very low powered Linux board with 1/4 of the
speed and memory of the Pi Zero or PocketBeagle.  I wonder if something
like that exists now.