[ondra]

MIPS is still quite alive in consumer networking hardware.

[eqvinox]

True - but at the same time, about half¹ of it is mipsel, i.e. in little-endian mode :). It's also in decline, AFAICS there is very little new silicon development.

¹ on the OpenWRT table of hardware

[tonetegeatinst]

Learning MIPS assembly currently using mars and QtSpim.

Any recommended hardware I should use for bare metal development messing around? Hopefully priced like a SBC like the raspberry pi.

Want to move from making basic programs like adding, messing with functions, etc and bring my MIPS assembly up to a real hardware environment.

[AntoniusBlock]

Many routers use the MIPS ISA and they can be rooted to get shell access. That's what I did with an old Netgear router, which was like a very low spec SBC. If you have a PS2 lying around, you could try that.