Raspberry Pi computer in action
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#2Nice summary on the history of Raspberry Pi
And loved the fact that they use scratch to demo it :-)
Maybe this is closer to the OLPC original goal??
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#3Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
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#4Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
>isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
No, not anyone. Hackers maybe, but not schools. First of all, you won't find 100,000+ cheap-but-quality laptops on ebay, not to mention you'll have to install Debian yourself. Not that it's difficult to install for "us," but these are targeted for school children. The whole point of this project is simplicity.
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#5Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
Any HD TV should work as a monitor, no? Presumably many people already own one. And USB mouse and keyboard are available dirt cheap.
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#6Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
It is intended to be connected to a television set via Composite or HDMI. I'd assume most families in the UK already have a television set so really the only additional cost is the keyboard+mouse.
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#7Having something this size for home automation would be a dream. I suppose you can't to video processing and wifi with Arduino's, but with a full sized PC... would be great.
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#8Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
Hardware and firmware will vary across different laptops. This allows a stable platform for tinkering and experimentation.
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#9Here is something I don't get: while this project is cool, if cost is the goal, once you add monitor, mouse & keyboard, isn't anyone better off with a combo of eBay laptop + Debian?
I believe the intention is that if you break it, you can just turn it off and on and it's back to normal.
This was true of computers from the golden age of 80s UK home computers (where the R-Pi founders are coming from). It's not so much true of ebay laptops.
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#10Nice summary on the history of Raspberry Pi And loved the fact that they use scratch to demo it :-) Maybe this is closer to the OLPC original goal??
Hardware is not the goal of OLPC. But it's an important component and a Raspberry Pi is not in the same ballpark as an XO laptop.
A kid in rural Peru is not going to have access to monitors, keyboards or the power required to run them. Nor will they sling a monitor over their back on the 5 mile walk back to their village every day.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this sort of comment is?