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Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#41
Why was the title changed? It's misleading right now since there's already a Raspberry Pi Model B+ available for ages. Should be "New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+" just like on the blog post.

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#43
post #16

PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve…

Why not just use a USB microphone?

That's what I suggest people to use now. The USB microphone needs power and one more USB port. If the Pi had a microphone input, we would have absolutely no need for the second USB port. Not having to have the second USB port means we would need no chip for the 4-port hub. Having the distro supporting the Pi Zero that has 1 USB port has been something I've been dreaming about.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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post #7

> Here’s a long post. [...] If you don’t have time to read it all, we recommend you watch this video The video is 1 minute long. The article is ~84 lines, ~8 KB of text. Is that really long?

If you're not a native English speaker, I imagine the video may be preferable to the article.

Before I came to the US, I studied English on my own to be able to program/do computery-stuff because people on the internets always told me to RTFM. On my first TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test for college, I got 29/30 for my reading comprehension and a similarly high score for writing but got 15/30 for speaking and a pretty bad score (not as bad as speaking - don't remember exactly) for listening.

Reading and writing were much easier than listening and speaking to me.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#47

> If you’ve been a Raspberry Pi watcher for a while now, you’ll have a bit of a feel for how we update our products. Model B... Model A... Model B+... When can we expect to see the Raspberry Pi Master and the Raspberry Pi Master Compact?

You forgot 3D and Ultra silly! ;)

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#48
post #16

PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve…

FYI PXE booting has been possible for a while now: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

Yep, I always thought it was just booting from the USB stick. But nonetheless, having a version that is officially supported and enabled by default is great.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#49
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just use a USB microphone?

That's what I suggest people to use now. The USB microphone needs power and one more USB port. If the Pi had a microphone input, we would have absolutely no need for the second USB port. Not having to have the second USB port means we would need no chip for the 4-port hub. Having the distro supporting the Pi Zero that has 1 USB port has been something I've been dreaming about.

How about an I2S microphone [1]? Or a PDM microphone [2]? These hook up to GPIOs.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3421

[2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3492

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're not a native English speaker, I imagine the video may be preferable to the article.

As a non-native English speaker, I doubt that. In general listening to English is quite complex for someone that has learnt English only from school; listening to a non native language (especially a quirky spelled one like English) requires quite a bit of excercise to fully understand the various accents and how the words pronounced often illogically associate with those words you've learnt from books. I personally f…

I really wish it was easier to find movies in other languages to help learning. I've been half-heartedly trying to learn French the past few years but it's deceptively hard to either find a decent streaming service, or to find torrents with French audio + subtitles.

Strangely it was quite easy when I had a stab at Swedish a few years ago; a number of their TV channels have a free streaming service that you can access from anywhere.

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