Hey thanks for your comment!
The vocore is wicked cool, and I've never heard of it before!
It looks pretty similar to an Arduino board, but then again all of these small chipsets are pretty similar I suppose.

I'm relatively new to Linux, (at least my knowledge base), and have virtually no programming skills, but programming is certainly something I'm interested in, and RPI does have some software's for learning programming that cater to the noob, so it may be a good place to start.

All of the things you can do with those GPIO's.. It's amazing. I was going through the projects site for the Pi and saw one that was a motion detector made with a laser pointer lol.

Yeah a home assistant would be kind of cool. That project is available as well on the site. I just think it's awesome to be able to create these things with universal chips when people will go out and pay hundreds of dollars for something they could build themselves, while learning as well.

So much to learn. I have an endless array of projects and ideas I want to do with this thing.

In terms of pricing, I think I paid too much for it as a kit some years back, but the chips can be found as cheap as around 20 dollars USD online, which isn't bad in my opinion, but money is tight for most of us. I generally have to starve if I want something nice for myself lol.

Thanks for stopping by!