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TL;DR Man uses HDMI port to drive HDMI monitor. [HDMI monitor is in car and HDMI port is on Raspberry Pi, but this doesn't really matter as no other features of

by piqufoh 13y ago

TL;DR Man uses HDMI port to drive HDMI monitor. [HDMI monitor is in car and HDMI port is on Raspberry Pi, but this doesn't really matter as no other features of car nor pi where used.]

RankingMember 13y ago
Haha exactly what I gleaned from this article. Big whoop.
3am 13y ago
Yeah, but it's more interesting than reading an (n+1)th opinion on Oculus/FB or another angry, well-paid engineer that doesn't understand the difference between no-recruit and no-hire policies. I have an old car (no HDMI or anything! It doesn't even have an automatic transmission) so this kind of gets my hacker juices flowing in a way that would have otherwise like 1) gps + wireless addones & google maps in some creative way 2) figure out how to attach a couple of cmoses on it and create a 360 degree display. edit: or infrared cameras, that could be fun. That said, the article itself is severely lacking. edit: strawberry pie :) ok, that's funny.
- piqufoh 13y ago
  I do agree, and it did provoke in me some genuinely interesting ideas for a car + rpi, I just got annoyed by the breathlessly impressed tone of the reporter! It's like I showed my Mum what I could do with my rpi and she wanted to impress her friends with this strawberry pie computerjingo - not good tech journalism.
chillingeffect 13y ago
The thing I despise about this and many other techno-dreaming articles is that they leave it up to the reader to do all the work of dreaming: > "I love where that train of thought is going" > "the sky’s the limit." > "it opens the door to some serious possibilities." Such as WHAT WHAT WHAT? I refuse to fill in the blanks here. The author is gassing me up to get me on board to figure out some brilliant use for their trivial activity. And I don't think the author even knows, they're just trying to generate hype.
- RankingMember 13y ago
  Yep, I saw a lot of this when the Arduino came out as well. It's cool, but it was written about like it was the invention of fire. "The possibilities are endless...now what the hell do I actually want to do with this thing..."

by piqufoh 13y ago

TL;DR Man uses HDMI port to drive HDMI monitor. [HDMI monitor is in car and HDMI port is on Raspberry Pi, but this doesn't really matter as no other features of car nor pi where used.]

RankingMember 13y ago

Haha exactly what I gleaned from this article. Big whoop.

3am 13y ago

Yeah, but it's more interesting than reading an (n+1)th opinion on Oculus/FB or another angry, well-paid engineer that doesn't understand the difference between no-recruit and no-hire policies. I have an old car (no HDMI or anything! It doesn't even have an automatic transmission) so this kind of gets my hacker juices flowing in a way that would have otherwise like 1) gps + wireless addones & google maps in some creative way 2) figure out how to attach a couple of cmoses on it and create a 360 degree display. edit: or infrared cameras, that could be fun. That said, the article itself is severely lacking. edit: strawberry pie :) ok, that's funny.

piqufoh 13y ago
I do agree, and it did provoke in me some genuinely interesting ideas for a car + rpi, I just got annoyed by the breathlessly impressed tone of the reporter! It's like I showed my Mum what I could do with my rpi and she wanted to impress her friends with this strawberry pie computerjingo - not good tech journalism.

chillingeffect 13y ago

The thing I despise about this and many other techno-dreaming articles is that they leave it up to the reader to do all the work of dreaming: > "I love where that train of thought is going" > "the sky’s the limit." > "it opens the door to some serious possibilities." Such as WHAT WHAT WHAT? I refuse to fill in the blanks here. The author is gassing me up to get me on board to figure out some brilliant use for their trivial activity. And I don't think the author even knows, they're just trying to generate hype.

RankingMember 13y ago
Yep, I saw a lot of this when the Arduino came out as well. It's cool, but it was written about like it was the invention of fire. "The possibilities are endless...now what the hell do I actually want to do with this thing..."