I've been doing a lot of embedded work lately with raspberry pis and beagle bones. I don't really see Max fitting there as almost all software on these devices are running open source code. It's another philosophy. I've been mostly using pd and pyo on these platforms, I do miss the ease of use of Max but in the end these tools get the job done and it's much less expensive than buying a mac mini to run Max...

Very interesting and exciting stuff. It would be fantastic to be able to use Max with a RPi but ...unlikey to happen. As much as I was happy to leave PD behind I might delve back into it as it would be great to be able to make some very cheap fx/etc boxes for live use.