Why don't they do a Kickstarter for this? Or do they already have the funding lined up?
Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
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Re: Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
#32I had a few vague thoughts:
* How is it powered? I assume neither composite video or HDMI can provide power to it (which would be cool), in the photo it looks like some it's probably powered from that ribbon cable that's soldered to the through-holes on the side. Would be neat if you could power it from (say) common older mobile phone chargers.
* I wonder which ARM SoC (system-on-a-chip) it's using,and what their open source support is like.
* Neat it has GPIO (general purpose input-output pins), I wonder where they are broken out? The row of 6 full-size through-holes in the photo look good, but it doesn't look there is much additional board real-estate for making other easy-to-solder additions.
* I know from working w/ WM8505 devices that ARM9 + 128Mb RAM is a fairly sorry combination for Ubuntu. I'd be surprised if they final device isn't built on something like Debian, they still support ARM9 (Ubuntu stopped after partial support in 9.04), have lower spec requirements overall, and their 'armel' package repository is huge.
Re: Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
#33I'm confused - he said its good for children who might not have a computer at home, but there is only an HDMI connection. What is the likelihood of a family not owning a PC - but does own a TV advanced enough for HDMI?
I was also surprised by that. Personally, I do own both a computer and a smartphone, but I do not have the HDMI supporting TV.
Re: Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
#34I had a few vague thoughts: * How is it powered? I assume neither composite video or HDMI can provide power to it (which would be cool), in the photo it looks like some it's probably powered from that ribbon cable that's soldered to the through-holes on the side. Would be neat if you could power it from (say) common older mobile phone chargers. * I wonder which ARM SoC (system-on-a-chip) it's using,and what their ope…
How is it powered?
If only their site wasn't so uselessly spartan!
Re: Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
#35Re: Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
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it's similar (but very much different) to http://www.MyLowCostPC.com project, that, unfortunately, hasn't raised, so far, the founds to develop it
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but the Raspberry Pi is much close to this one http://humaneinfo.com/pc.html
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Re: Raspberry Pi: A £15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers
#37When you factor in the cost of a monitor or TV, keyboard, and mouse (plus any other peripherals required for your curriculum and the USB hub you would need to use them), I think that this $200 laptop is probably a more cost-effective solution:
http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html