Raspberry > Orange
The Raspberry Pi is easily the gold standard of Single Board Computers (SBCs), and hobbyists the world over bounce between Raspberry Pi and Arduino for their projects. Not too long ago, a competitor arose out of China. Actually, a LOT of competitors arose out of China, but one in particular stands out: the Orange Pi. The reason should be obvious - the name is a play on Raspberry Pi. But also, the Orange Pi boasts some impressive specs - more ram, a more powerful processor, more headers, more form factors, and more RAM to name a few. But specs aren't everything. I spent the last few weeks toying around with the Orange Pi Plus 2E, which should be the near equal in every way to the Raspberry Pi 3 B. But in actual practice, it falls far short because the manufacturer doesn't fully support it with software. The default Android installation cannot use Google's Play store (can not), so you wind up having to side load apps, many of which need Google Play Services to properly fu...