Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
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#2I'm not particularly impressed. The Pi isn't a budget computer, it's not for watching Nyan Cat or listening to podcasts, it's a computer sandboxing tool. Yes, it has teething problems but it's been designed on a minuscule budget, had little time in the wild to actually gain any traction and most definitely has not had the time required to mature the supported software. This review is targeting all the wrong things and glossing over what the Pi is actually meant for.
As a media centre or recreational tool, it's useless, but as an educational tool it's not to be rubbished. For $35 a go, I'm willing to put up with a lack of Youtube.
Re: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
#3I'm not particularly impressed. The Pi isn't a budget computer, it's not for watching Nyan Cat or listening to podcasts, it's a computer sandboxing tool. Yes, it has teething problems but it's been designed on a minuscule budget, had little time in the wild to actually gain any traction and most definitely has not had the time required to mature the supported software. This review is targeting all the wrong things an…
Agreed, and I imagine it will not be long until a RPi is running home built UAV's (for example).
Re: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
#4For newbies, here's a guide i uploaded yesterday:
http://moishtech.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/setup-and-run-asteri...
Re: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
#5 because apparently it's the lack of time spent punching
arcane commands into a terminal that has killed interest
in computer science
Re: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
#6The community for RPi is small mostly because it's impossible to get one. They really need to ramp up manufacturing to get the device into more hands. I ordered one 5 weeks ago from element14 but it looks like I'll still have to wait another month or two to get mine.
Re: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
#7I'm not particularly impressed. The Pi isn't a budget computer, it's not for watching Nyan Cat or listening to podcasts, it's a computer sandboxing tool. Yes, it has teething problems but it's been designed on a minuscule budget, had little time in the wild to actually gain any traction and most definitely has not had the time required to mature the supported software. This review is targeting all the wrong things an…
Agreed, and I imagine it will not be long until a RPi is running home built UAV's (for example).
And doing stuff like that is going to make stuff like IT/Engineering education a hell of a lot more fun, rewarding and accessible.
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#8I'm not particularly impressed. The Pi isn't a budget computer, it's not for watching Nyan Cat or listening to podcasts, it's a computer sandboxing tool. Yes, it has teething problems but it's been designed on a minuscule budget, had little time in the wild to actually gain any traction and most definitely has not had the time required to mature the supported software. This review is targeting all the wrong things an…
I like to think of the RPi as an arduino that can run opencv. Arduinos are nice little devices for getting started in the electronics world, but when you need to do real work, it's nice that the RPi is essentially the same price.
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#9because apparently it's the lack of time spent punching arcane commands into a terminal that has killed interest in computer science Uh, actually. I think that this review is well off, and it really shows here. The command line is simple . Everybody I know learned to program by writing command-line programs. I mean, seriously, int main(){printf("hello world");}. That's incredible for education. Review it as a media c…
I sort of agree and disagree with you on the accessibility of the command line, it's definitely a lot less difficult that it was a decade ago, what with the proliferation of the internet and therefore stuff like StackOverflow, but it's still notably daunting and somewhat steep on the learning curve. Still, stuff like this is how we make it easier and more accessible.
Re: Raspberry Pi impressions: the $35 Linux computer and tinker toy
#10because apparently it's the lack of time spent punching arcane commands into a terminal that has killed interest in computer science Uh, actually. I think that this review is well off, and it really shows here. The command line is simple . Everybody I know learned to program by writing command-line programs. I mean, seriously, int main(){printf("hello world");}. That's incredible for education. Review it as a media c…
The reviewer probably isn't aware of the tech bubble too. All the madness that is facebook & instagram, were fueled by arcane commands in a terminal. I remember from the first bubble that made computer science so hot, we had history majors willing to switch to CS to learn these arcane commands.