Proposal: Cheaper and more approachable officially supported hardware (e.g. Raspberry Pi) for home nodes.

[gobengo]

I think we could really increase the approachability of setting up a home node by aligning with existing beginner-friendly hardware communities.

Also, many microcomputers are now actually cheaper than an N600, not to mention more common.

e.g. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi

[eenblam]

@gobengo I think the main argument for the N600 is having a sufficient number of radios right out of the box. Device needs to be able to handle the usual amount of home internet traffic, along with all of its mesh connections.

EDIT: That said, we're working on moving towards platforms that are more open (and not discontinued.) @Juul has been doing a lot of research into LibreRouters.