Raspberry Pi anyone?
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An amazing project with a well defined and specific goal. :-D According to their foundation's website the goal is to encourage kids to develop programming skills in the UK. Obviously what works there could work elsewhere. Using an ARM IP core in the SOC is a especially good idea since it will make porting the code the kids write to commercial platforms a lot easier. What I find especially amazing is that it took only one trace cut and one blue wire to go from alpha to release boards. (Hardware can be edited too!) The buccaneers on ebay, ought to be called what they are, scalpers. It might be legal to re-sell the boards at inflated prices but totally subverts the principles of the project. They obviously don't get the point.:thumbsdown: I'll be happy when mine comes in May. It looks like a cool device to run as a small web server. I have a Cisco USB Wifi I can plug in it. My family's Android phones ought to be able to connect to it through the AP just fine.
I was thinking Home Security for mine, now where did I put that Tesla coil..... :) Oh hardware being edited it happens more than you think, more often than not the new improved version is basically a re-spin of the board with a track moved (you know who you are & you are probably reading this!)
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Well it'll never be Educational only, as hobbyists will use them for all sorts of things and people have been speculating about using it at a little Media Centre but I don't see that as a problem. The more people that buy them, the more funds they will have to put the Raspberry Pi in the hands of somebody who could really benefit from it.
-SK Genius
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I could buy a 486SX PC for the price of an Archimedes CD-ROM drive back in the day. Turnabout is fair play, so now the economies of scale that favoured the PC over every other computer work for this little cell-phone SOC based computer. I hope RISCOS gets a new breath of life, there may be unused educational software moldering on the shelves of UK schools. "Your project Timmy is to port Zarch onto the Rasberry Pi". Actually, that could happen anyway, isn't David Braben involved in the RasbPi project?
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glennPattonWork wrote:
What are the views of the Code Project Readers to the Raspberry Pi.
'Reported': ordinary men like me cannot get one.
Veni, vidi, vici.