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And I want wifi, and a built in 8GB flash and at least 2GB of ram and make the board smaller and cheaper (or even free) and include a touch screen and dual ethe

by icefox 15y ago

And I want wifi, and a built in 8GB flash and at least 2GB of ram and make the board smaller and cheaper (or even free) and include a touch screen and dual ethernet and a camera, and firewire and thunderbolt and a floppy drive and a battery and gps, and more blinky leds and an extra Alpha co-processor so I can run my favorite version of WindowsNT and a scsi port so I can connect my scanner. I am at least glad they left off the jazz drive, who needs that anymore! Seriously it is $35. Someone is going to take it give it a case and a SD card that has 1 single application/purpose and do something amazing with it and people will eat it up. This device isn't about what old thing you can run, but about what crazy NEW things can be done. It is insulting that you would even bring up Adobe in this as they have for all intents and purposes killed flash and it will never appear on this device. Start thinking about how to exploit what the device gives you. The feature of this device is that it is dirt f*n cheap. A $3000 computer you want to keep working for months/years, but at $25 who cares if it dies and you have to buy another. Rather than sharing USB sticks you share your Pi. Put them in colorful cases and kids will trade them at school. Mount them in locations where water damage is very possible and just replace it when it dies. Give it a big battery and _bury_ it in your yard. Drop it in the ocean and have it transmit until it is crushed for amusement. Buy four of them and make some sort of game. Etc Edit how cheap can you get a screen for this?

MBCook 15y ago
That's kind of where I see it. An Arduino Uno costs $30, has 2KB of RAM, and runs at 16 MHz. The Raspberry Pi costs $35, has 256 MB of RAM, and runs at 700 MHz. It also has two USB ports, ethernet, HDMI, composite video, a great GPU, SD card, and more. You only get 8 GPIO pins, but you also have I2C and SPI. Plus they were developing a board to help with that. There are quite a few projects you might want to do that would take quite a bit more horsepower than an Arduino, but a Raspberry Pi would do great for. Think of using something like a Raspberry Pi with a serial breakout board for running a Reprap or Makerbot. Enough power to run the machine and provide an amazing 3D GUI of the object being printed during the process. It still has less IO than a Beaglebone, but it also costs 1/3rd the price. I don't think many people will be using the Rasperry Pi to replace netbooks or most desktops, but I see a ton of hobbyist uses.
GuiA 15y ago
> Drop it in the ocean and have it transmit until it is crushed for amusement. I now have a new hobby.
- xd 15y ago
  You won't get very far on radio waves so you best look up torpedo wire or something around the .1mm diameter range to tether to the pi to get a signal. edit: farnell do 19300ft of 38awg .. that should do the trick.

by icefox 15y ago

MBCook 15y ago

That's kind of where I see it. An Arduino Uno costs $30, has 2KB of RAM, and runs at 16 MHz. The Raspberry Pi costs $35, has 256 MB of RAM, and runs at 700 MHz. It also has two USB ports, ethernet, HDMI, composite video, a great GPU, SD card, and more. You only get 8 GPIO pins, but you also have I2C and SPI. Plus they were developing a board to help with that. There are quite a few projects you might want to do that would take quite a bit more horsepower than an Arduino, but a Raspberry Pi would do great for. Think of using something like a Raspberry Pi with a serial breakout board for running a Reprap or Makerbot. Enough power to run the machine and provide an amazing 3D GUI of the object being printed during the process. It still has less IO than a Beaglebone, but it also costs 1/3rd the price. I don't think many people will be using the Rasperry Pi to replace netbooks or most desktops, but I see a ton of hobbyist uses.

GuiA 15y ago

> Drop it in the ocean and have it transmit until it is crushed for amusement. I now have a new hobby.

xd 15y ago
You won't get very far on radio waves so you best look up torpedo wire or something around the .1mm diameter range to tether to the pi to get a signal. edit: farnell do 19300ft of 38awg .. that should do the trick.