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I do wonder what could be built while keeping the price under £60 / $100.
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Fortunately, URB-to-Ethernet adapters aren't very expensive.
Or USB->WiFi. The mini-USB bluetooth adaptor that they currently have stock of in my local pound shop (for, not surprisingly, £1) (they look very like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk//300388440707 so may be the same thing) work perfectly will under Ubuntu (at least on 10.04 and 11.04). So as long as the bluetooth stack doesn't eat too much of that small chunk of RAM and network speed is not a big issue you could use the PAN or…
What's ... interesting about that reasoning is that according the Wikipedia, HDMI sources at most 50 mA at 5 V, which is 10% of what a USB root port is expected to deliver (500 mA).
Perhaps it will require a power supply, unless you can find a power-efficient keyboard. Shouldn't be impossible I guess, keyboards are fairly passive.
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Or USB->WiFi. The mini-USB bluetooth adaptor that they currently have stock of in my local pound shop (for, not surprisingly, £1) (they look very like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk//300388440707 so may be the same thing) work perfectly will under Ubuntu (at least on 10.04 and 11.04). So as long as the bluetooth stack doesn't eat too much of that small chunk of RAM and network speed is not a big issue you could use the PAN or…
I assumed (from the video of Braben) that it was the other way around; it's powered by the HDMI connection to a TV. This makes kind of sense, since it's a USB host . It allows you to connect stuff like keyboards and mice, which a USB device wouldn't do. What's ... interesting about that reasoning is that according the Wikipedia, HDMI sources at most 50 mA at 5 V, which is 10% of what a USB root port is expected to de…
Perhaps the connections seen at the top of it in http://www.raspberrypi.org/pcb.jpg are providing the power - it looks like they end up plugging into the USB hub (if that is the case then it must be a powered hub, but a passive hub could presumably be used if the board were getting power from elsewhere like a battery connected to those contacts).
I've not watched the video yet (no speakers/headphones handy) so I could be missing something they show/say in there.
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Fortunately, URB-to-Ethernet adapters aren't very expensive.
Or USB->WiFi. The mini-USB bluetooth adaptor that they currently have stock of in my local pound shop (for, not surprisingly, £1) (they look very like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk//300388440707 so may be the same thing) work perfectly will under Ubuntu (at least on 10.04 and 11.04). So as long as the bluetooth stack doesn't eat too much of that small chunk of RAM and network speed is not a big issue you could use the PAN or…
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-deta...
It should be possible to power this thing with power over ethernet.
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I assumed (from the video of Braben) that it was the other way around; it's powered by the HDMI connection to a TV. This makes kind of sense, since it's a USB host . It allows you to connect stuff like keyboards and mice, which a USB device wouldn't do. What's ... interesting about that reasoning is that according the Wikipedia, HDMI sources at most 50 mA at 5 V, which is 10% of what a USB root port is expected to de…
But it also supports composite out - if you were connecting the display that way it would need power from somewhere else. Perhaps the connections seen at the top of it in http://www.raspberrypi.org/pcb.jpg are providing the power - it looks like they end up plugging into the USB hub (if that is the case then it must be a powered hub, but a passive hub could presumably be used if the board were getting power from else…
I agree that the wires in the picture look like they're coming off of the USB hub, and also that the hub looks like the powered variety.
So, probably they'll go with at least one, preferably many, ways to power the machine externally. I hope they leave HDMI only as an option though, since it's incredibly neat.
Oh, and I agree with others that they should look hard at integrating WiFi onboard.
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Or USB->WiFi. The mini-USB bluetooth adaptor that they currently have stock of in my local pound shop (for, not surprisingly, £1) (they look very like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk//300388440707 so may be the same thing) work perfectly will under Ubuntu (at least on 10.04 and 11.04). So as long as the bluetooth stack doesn't eat too much of that small chunk of RAM and network speed is not a big issue you could use the PAN or…
There are 802.11 USB adapters in the same form factor: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-deta... It should be possible to power this thing with power over ethernet.
With PoE you wouldn't need a wireless connection at all of course.
I want two or three. No kidding. Any possibility to upgrade RAM? When will this be avaliable? At 20€ they're going to sell like crazy.
Probably not; they're likely using a SOC with integrated memory.
Still I am blown away by the size
Does anyone know if this could be made to run iOS?
