Raspberry Pi. Credit Card Sized Computer

[#17D500winner]

I thought there was a tech section around here but couldn't find it so I'll put this here.

Anyway, I seen this on CNN this morning. Suppose it's what Toyota has been hiding in their race cars and drivers are playing with the valve timing

Seriously, though, interesing gadget.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

 

[Magnethead]

Yawn. It's been out for a few years. I've looked into getting it, but I can't justify the $30 or so, yet. But I'm liking the newer version (Model B ) with ethernet onboard. I may wait for Model C, though. Depends on ym needs/wants at the time.

 

[#17D500winner]

Yawn. It's been out for a few years. I've looked into getting it, but I can't justify the $30 or so, yet. But I'm liking the newer version (Model B ) with ethernet onboard. I may wait for Model C, though. Depends on ym needs/wants at the time.

I knew I was behind the times lately

 

[Magnethead]

I knew I was behind the times lately

It's been kinda hidden due to the VERY narrow customer base. It only runs linux, and is very hardware knowledge necessary to operate. Some of it is even over my head, which is why I haven't bought one yet.

 

[#17D500winner]

It's been kinda hidden due to the VERY narrow customer base. It only runs linux, and is very hardware knowledge necessary to operate. Some of it is even over my head, which is why I haven't bought one yet.

CNN said that it's estimated sales were 100,000 or so but have actually sold over a million of them. I was thinking about buying one but would likely tire of in a about a week so I think I'll save up my cash for something else...a Q10, maybe

 

[Magnethead]

Alot of people are buying them and just leaving them on the desk. a few have made small laptops/netbooks with them. It's really not a bad deal in that respect, especially since the factory package lets you bump the CPU to 800MHz.

 

[Magnethead]

Here is the 3.141591's competitor. The BeagleBone Black.

http://www.mouser.com/new/beagleboardorg/beagleboneblack/

http://beagleboard.org/Getting Started

The nice thing about the BB is that you can make it into a full linux computer. There's a $70 wifi/bluetooth "cape" for it and a $150 7" touchscreen for it. Plus the $45 beaglebone. That's a $265 computer with 1GHz CPU, 512 of RAM, and whatever you want for storage. Or just get the wifi/BT cape and use your own display via the mHDMI connector.

The only thing I'm not sure on, the 3.141591 was designed for graphics first and computing second. The beaglebone was done the other way, CPU first and graphics as an afterthought. So I don't know how good it is at playing video.