Ten million Raspberry Pis
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Ten million Raspberry Pis
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Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#2I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers.
We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#3I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
I have three Raspberry Pi 1, model B and two Raspberry Pi Zeros.
Not a single one is in use.
And for running an emulator (SNES etc.) I will probably need another one with more power. Not sure what to do with the others right now.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#4I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
Yeah, probably a significant percentage. They're cheap enough that buying one, trying it out a few times, and then leaving it in a drawer won't bother you too much.
I think I've five (of different revisions), only one is in permanent use. Another is installed in a robot, and the rest are all collecting dust in a drawer or in a half-baked project bin.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#5I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
I wonder how many of them are quietly doing a whole pile of work.
Even if only 10% of them is in use (which would be a very very low estimate) then this amounts to an incredible success because you can afford to buy one, try something and forget about it without breaking the bank.
The raspberry pi is a game-changer because it gives you a full fledged computer for a very low amount of money, so low you can actually afford to buy one and let it gather dust in a drawer.
By the same token: I wonder how many Intel cpu's and the motherboards going with them of those that were ever sold are productive today. If you look at things this way the glass will always be half-full and you're not going to see the impact of the devices other than from an angle of waste.
But the better angle is to see what is done with them.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#6I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
I wonder how many of them are quietly doing a whole pile of work. Even if only 10% of them is in use (which would be a very very low estimate) then this amounts to an incredible success because you can afford to buy one, try something and forget about it without breaking the bank. The raspberry pi is a game-changer because it gives you a full fledged computer for a very low amount of money, so low you can actually af…
> Even if only 10% of them is in use (which would be a very very low estimate) then this amounts to an incredible success because you can afford to buy one, try something and forget about it without breaking the bank.
Yup. I currently have a Pi turning my TV on/off, because my Intel NUC doesn't support CEC. Is it necessary? Hell no. Would it have been simpler to buy one of Pulse-Eight's adapters? Of course. But I already had a Pi gathering dust, so why not just reuse that instead.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#7£99+VAT is overpriced. Similar items can be bought for 60 USD (or even less), shipping included (buying at Amazon and/or eBay).
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#8I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
As owner of a variety of hobbiest boards I'm not so sure all those pis are mostly lying around unused, it's just too easy to make them do useful stuff, as compared to the usual DIY board where you spend half your life battling some crappy patched kernel.
At my current office there is a pi behind every one of a bank of monitors hanging from the roof, at home I've got one doing file server in my cupboard, a non-tech buddy has one doing media centre duties, and so on.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#9I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.
So are a lot of regular computers and phones.
Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis
#10£99+VAT is overpriced. Similar items can be bought for 60 USD (or even less), shipping included (buying at Amazon and/or eBay).
"This is an unashamedly premium product", says the webpage. The Pi was originally designed with re-using existing peripherals, and will be used that way most of the time, but there's still demand for a premium starter kit.