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Having 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.
Edit: for eg http://pandaboard.org/
Here 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.
Except back in the day, I had to deal with cassette tapes and only 4K (subsequently upgraded to 16K) of RAM.
30 years ago, I learned code by typing in hundreds of lines of (sometimes buggy) BASIC source code found in print magazines that came out only once a month. Today, all a youngster needs to do is a pull (and in just about any programming language) from Github. Progress is amazing!
Nice 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??
None of this is a criticism of RaspberryPi. I think cheap computers that kids can screw up and fix is a very good thing. And often, less is more.
Here 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?
Nice 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??
Anyway, onto my point, i hope that the stories continue after its penetrated the hacker community and there is coverage of the million of cool applications that the computer has been used for. So much of the mainstream press lose interest after something is launched.
Nice 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??
I don't think this is closer to OLPCs goal of providing a laptop per child. OLPC was, literally, "batteries included," they even had a charging solution for the batteries. The OLPC device as a tool for kids to learn about computers and programming was just one facet of its intended use. It was also a notebook, and a textbook and a communications device. The RasberryPi needs a screen, a keyboard and power, and even wi…
I feel like maybe a version of the RaspberryPi that ships assembled on a breadboard with replacement parts - more expensive, of course, to cover the increased manufacturing costs and extra parts - would be extremely useful to anyone interested in hardware design. (Of course there are other kits that do this, but I think that there would be some benefit to RaspberryPi offering it as well.)
Having 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.
You can already buy ARM based dev kits from Nvidia, TI etc. They're much more powerful and suited towards that sort of goal (and more expensive). Edit: for eg http://pandaboard.org/
Nice 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??
It's nice to see another player in the educational computer market though. I don't think it's fair to compare to OLPC yet, because the raspberrypi has not finished their educational version.
Here 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?