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Consider this more a web API to GPIO instead of just a web server and you can see the inherent value.
by ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
Consider this more a web API to GPIO instead of just a web server and you can see the inherent value.
- noonespecial 13y agoI get it. And its a start. But its so huge and expensive its like considering the rest of the car an API to a tire. That's a crap-ton of computer and the sysadmin that goes with it to flip a switch. I don't have a beef with programming the 'net of things in java or lua or even pascal. What I'm saying is that that's way too much computing too far down the stack. The closer we get to the GPIO pin, the less computer, expense, and electrical requirements there should be. I'm just saying that the thing that should be hitched to the actual GPIO pin ought to look and function more like an RFID tag and less like a mini rack server.
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoI cannot agree (I mean I do from a pure techie point of view) but last week I got my hands in a Raspberry PI for the first time and knocked up a traffic light demo for a school in Python, with LEDs directly shoved into the ribbon cable. I have not been so child-like excited for years. by throwing a wasteful amount of computing power into just turning on a light, we put this in the reach of more and more people. we could have web servers in assembly language, and it would be more efficient use of computing resources - but that's not been the optimal way and it won't be here either
- grego 13y agoHey, this is just one of the necessary steps towards Marvin the Paranoid Android, or perhaps the sentient door...
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoall of which will exist in 42 years of course
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- KaiserPro 13y agoYup, slow, expensive, unwieldy and horrifically inefficient. and probably wildly popular.