So for the price of a $1000 pc I could get 200 of these. What would be great experiments for them?
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Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
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#313The 80s are widely considered as the golden age of hacking, but what the hell? I just bought ten microcontrollers that can run Lua/Python/C for $20, there are full-blown computers for $5, and all the supporting ecosystem (sensors, components, etc) is cheaper than most toys. I am very optimistic about the future, given that people (and children) these days have trivially cheap access to powerful programmable and easil…
Plus standardisation (linux, usb, arm, etc) which I understand was one thing lacking in the 80s.
The standard was pretty simple in the 80's, > 3 V = 1, anything below that counts as a 0.
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#314Does it make sense to run your own hardware again? If you leased rackspace at a provider, you could just have tiny clusters of these everywhere for each service and pay virtually nothing. You could have it triple redundant and have it configured however you wanted. Edit: it was a dif time, but wasnt that hiw google got started? Tgey just bought a ton of hardware.
Like http://www.pidramble.com/ - running in my basement right now, but it's comparable in performance (for many workloads) to a cluster of t2.micro instances.
Re: Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
#315So for the price of a $1000 pc I could get 200 of these. What would be great experiments for them?
>What would be great experiments for them?
Donating them to school computer clubs and seeing what teenagers do with them.
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#316I find the lack of ethernet or wifi concerning. I get that they're trying to keep it small and low cost, but I can't immediately see any use for a Pi that can't run standalone.
Could powerline networking not work for this?
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#317Amazing. If only I'd get my act together and do all the amazing stuff I planned when I bought my first pi - then I could justify buying this
Two years after buying mine, I put the pi to a good use only last week! Now I am using it as ad-blocker thanks to http://pi-hole.net/ , works like a charm. I ported the web interface for pi-hole to Go single executable ( https://github.com/girishso/pi-hole-web ) Now looking for something interesting to do on my second pi! Edit: Added pi-hole-web link.
What is the difference between this and privoxy with an ad blocker?
Re: Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
#318I find the lack of ethernet or wifi concerning. I get that they're trying to keep it small and low cost, but I can't immediately see any use for a Pi that can't run standalone.
You may be interested in CHIP. 8 USD (this Monday only), and includes wi-fi as well as integrated flash storage. http://getchip.com/
And it has an armv7. But no builtin display adapter?
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#319Oh Nice! They are finally delivering on what I feel was the great promise of the Raspi in the beginning. Full linux install in the size and price of a micro (read: Arduino). Some people are bound to gripe about the "lack" of ports but its not like this one displaced the A or B models. Its just another spin of the concept where you don't have to pay for expensive physical parts you don't need. Its a linux server at a…
Buy magazine, get a free computer. It's a pretty good time to be alive.
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google for PC/104 its exactly what you're looking for although its aimed at industrial control users (and unfortunately priced accordingly) Of course if you could guarantee a production run of 5 million then a contemporary PC/104 board could probably cost as little as a ras-pi. Note that there's PC/104 the concept and form factor, and another concept with the same name was a 104 pin header that was vaguely a PC/AT bu…
Neat. Not exactly what I imagined but probably a lot more practical OTOH. I'd just like a standardized high speed interconnection port with power supply and a shared router of some form. Probably would be more plausible when high speed optical links becomes cheap and ubiquitous enough so that a single thin cable can be drawn from each module to an PoE equipped router, so there's not a large mess of wires. Then the on…
"Optical" and "PoE" do not go together?