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One thing that's missing compared to the standalone pi is the camera connector (and display connector, but I've found that less useful as HDMI displays are cheaper and more available and I've ended up using several Pis in headless camera applications).

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As someone with experience in headless cameras, do you have any comments on the Pine64 "PineCube" [1] stand-alone IP camera? It seems pretty awesome but I have no clue.

[1] https://pine64.com/product/pinecube-dev-kit/?v=0446c16e2e66

Nope, sorry, haven't used it. The major benefit of the raspi setup is the software support, which is excellent.

I think the overlap of people who wants it integrated in a keyboard and people who will make meaningful use of camera connectors is pretty small.

You're probably right (though I see a lot of people using a pi as their first foray into computer vision, and I could imagine some of them wanting to play with this) but it was not mentioned in the review or in the raspi blog post so I thought I'd point it out.

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