Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
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Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
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#2It has been amazing watching what people have done with the Model B. I'm actually considering picking one up just to play around with web development and all these mysterious languages I hadn't heard of before reading Hacker News, ie the *.js languages, and a personal trial of Django vs Rails.
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#3It has been amazing watching what people have done with the Model B. I'm actually considering picking one up just to play around with web development and all these mysterious languages I hadn't heard of before reading Hacker News, ie the *.js languages, and a personal trial of Django vs Rails.
Your current computer almost certainly will run a Linux virtual machine with more than enough performance to try out Django, Rails, Node and more, for free. It'll also be much closer to the kind of environment you would likely deploy on (64 bit x86 vs 32 bit ARM).
That's not to say you shouldn't get a Raspberry Pi, quite the opposite - just don't let the lack of one stop you from doing what you want, today!
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#4Model A is very restrictive than the B, if you are even slightly serious to do sth of little weight with it. I wonder if A can withstand always-on torrent and/or a connected hard disk which is constantly filled by CrashPlan or Time Machine. One USB port is another big restriction. Kills my idea of making it work with two hard disk(without using a hub).
PS. It hurts to think that I am not buying it(B) because it costs ~$60 here(IN) and the original price being $35. Maybe I would have bought it if it was released for $60 and available here for the same cost. Played with it at a friend's place though.
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#5I picked up a Model B from Amazon earlier this month, here in the US. I have been really impressed with it, even though I paid ~$48. Very impressive device in such a little package. I used mine to make a WiFi garage door opener with node.js backend and iOS app to open our garage doors from our phone. So many more projects in mind.
Shameless plus as I just wrote a post about my project this weekend. http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#6It has been amazing watching what people have done with the Model B. I'm actually considering picking one up just to play around with web development and all these mysterious languages I hadn't heard of before reading Hacker News, ie the *.js languages, and a personal trial of Django vs Rails.
Your current computer almost certainly will run a Linux virtual machine with more than enough performance to try out Django, Rails, Node and more, for free. It'll also be much closer to the kind of environment you would likely deploy on (64 bit x86 vs 32 bit ARM). That's not to say you shouldn't get a Raspberry Pi, quite the opposite - just don't let the lack of one stop you from doing what you want, today!
Good advice - might be worth just trying a micro EC2 instance from Amazon, which is part of their free tier.
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your current computer almost certainly will run a Linux virtual machine with more than enough performance to try out Django, Rails, Node and more, for free. It'll also be much closer to the kind of environment you would likely deploy on (64 bit x86 vs 32 bit ARM). That's not to say you shouldn't get a Raspberry Pi, quite the opposite - just don't let the lack of one stop you from doing what you want, today!
Good advice - might be worth just trying a micro EC2 instance from Amazon, which is part of their free tier. http://aws.amazon.com/free/
Micro instances have savage CPU throttling with a little bit of leeway. What this translates into is you'll compile something biggish (eg node.js), things will seem fine for a few minutes, then the machine appears to freeze. *
If you want to keep a machine around that you know doesn't do much, it's the cheapest option on AWS. But it's no fun if you're doing unplanned, interactive work. Even for the first use case, you want to fire up a bigger instance to do things like package installation, then restart as a micro once its configured.
(* I experienced this a year ago. Others report similar things.)
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#8Model A is very restrictive than the B, if you are even slightly serious to do sth of little weight with it. I wonder if A can withstand always-on torrent and/or a connected hard disk which is constantly filled by CrashPlan or Time Machine. One USB port is another big restriction. Kills my idea of making it work with two hard disk(without using a hub). PS. It hurts to think that I am not buying it(B) because it costs…
The problem is that it's manufactured and sold by a UK non-profit, so you're importing it to India. You may be able to get it cheaper by buying it from someone outside of the country and shipping it to India. I'm not sure if importing for private vs. commercial use matters or not in India.
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your current computer almost certainly will run a Linux virtual machine with more than enough performance to try out Django, Rails, Node and more, for free. It'll also be much closer to the kind of environment you would likely deploy on (64 bit x86 vs 32 bit ARM). That's not to say you shouldn't get a Raspberry Pi, quite the opposite - just don't let the lack of one stop you from doing what you want, today!
Good advice - might be worth just trying a micro EC2 instance from Amazon, which is part of their free tier. http://aws.amazon.com/free/
Microsoft BizSpark (free for startups, http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/) gives quite a bit of azure access (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Azure/Default.aspx) to let you run multiple virtual machines.
HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293098
Re: Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
#10I picked up a Model B from Amazon earlier this month, here in the US. I have been really impressed with it, even though I paid ~$48. Very impressive device in such a little package. I used mine to make a WiFi garage door opener with node.js backend and iOS app to open our garage doors from our phone. So many more projects in mind. Shameless plus as I just wrote a post about my project this weekend. http://itsbrent.ne…
Really cool. Could you point me towards any resources for learning the electronics side of this? I've had my pi for awhile and want to get into the hardware aspect of it more, but have zero experience.