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That 40 pin connector is a big STEM deal. First peripheral I would sell is an add on breadboard station with lots of good sensors, lights, input controls, moto
by ddingus 6y ago
That 40 pin connector is a big STEM deal.
First peripheral I would sell is an add on breadboard station with lots of good sensors, lights, input controls, motor drivers and such that is buffered to prevent damage and start producing education kits.
- marmaduke 6y ago> That 40 pin connector is a big STEM deal. yes really, this is nearly spectrum-opposite of a chromebook (desgined to keep you in a prebuilt ecosystem)
- jayd16 6y agoIf you can write code to drive hardware from pinouts I think you can click a button to enable Linux apps.
- ddingus 6y agoWriting code means not requiring Linux apps.
- ben_w 6y agoPis don’t require Linux, they support Linux. If you want to teach kids on RISC OS like I was in the late 90s, there isn’t anything stopping you.
- ddingus 6y agoYou were that is all true. I was speaking more to the Chromebook model, not so much what someone wants to or needs to run on a Pi. I don't feel all that good about developments on things like iPads and Chromebooks. Not for stem type tasks.
- NortySpock 6y agoofficial Raspberry Pi Sense HAT https://www.microcenter.com/product/453920/raspberry-pi-sense-hat https://www.microcenter.com/product/453920/raspberry-pi-sens... 5x5 RGB LED matrix, gyro, accelerometer, magnetometer, thermometer, hydrometer, barometer, joystick sensor, all for ~$30 USD
- lostlogin 6y agoGetting the POE hat in there somewhere, somehow, would be pretty neat.
- soneil 6y agoThe PoE hat - at least the existing one as we know it - won't work for the 400. Besides the 40pin header it also uses another 2x2 header behind the magjack, which is where it receives the input from the ethernet jack. Oddly, this board spots a separate ethernet transformer which does support PoE, but there's no circuity to tap that, and nowhere to add it. Which begs for a modification, but seems like missed opportunity.
- wang_li 6y agoPoE seems off for the target audience of this device. In all likelihood the most prevalent mode of network access is going to be via wifi.
- soneil 6y agoOh totally. And I can see why they'd want to keep the component count down. Their regular keyboard is $17, and the 4GB pi4 is $55. So if you just duct-taped the pi to the keyboard, you'd already be $2 (plus tape) over the RRP of the 400. The bit I don't get is why use an ethernet transformer at all, especially if they're not reaping the benefit from it.
- numpad0 6y agoAgreed that it’s a missed opportunity but a Pi with a GPIO hat attached and receiving power over PoE and in hand of a kid doesn’t sound particularly great
- rickspencer3 6y agoIt's also Linux based on a properly supported distro that is maintained specifically for the rpi. You can do real hacking, not "try to get this to run" hacking.
- ddingus 6y agoSeriously. That counts for a whole lot. Frankly, that was one of the great things about the old 8-bit computers. They were constant in some ways. You could turn them on. And then go. What we've got here is something a lot like that. But it has a lot more power connectivity. All the things the simple machines don't have. But it's all still pretty lean too. I'm excited.
- AstroJetson 6y agoHere you go https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/breakout-garden https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/breakout-garden the easy way to add devices to the Pi. You add SPI and I2C devices and the sell a ton of different sensors, motor and servo units, etc
- hellweaver666 6y agoThey’ve actually just bought out a breakout garden “hat” specifically designed for the Pi 400
- hellweaver666 6y agoCheck out the PU Cobbler from Adafruit. It literally breaks out the PU header to a standard breadboard layout.