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| pbj:
Nothing spends like someone else's money. :cheers: |
| keilmillerjr:
--- Quote from: sharpfork on May 04, 2014, 11:31:45 pm --- --- Quote from: stan2323 on May 04, 2014, 11:22:39 pm ---I backed it. I hope he makes it to $10,000. I want this ported to the BeagleBone Black. I want to see what it can do. --- End quote --- The BeagleBone Black is hardware worth putting some energy into. RasPi= meh. I'll back it regardless. --- End quote --- Agreed. The beagle bone black hardware is much more attractive than the raspberry pi. I plan on picking up one soon for one of my projects. |
| Locke141:
(Sorry for the spelling/grammar. I'm on my phone and have dyslexia. I'll fix it up latter) Well then, some good news for all of you pi haters. The stretch goal to port to the BBB has been met. As for some of the other reasonable concerns. Yes, most of the work was done by him and others before he started the champagne. But it being open scores he was and is given it all away for free. He was only looking for for $2,500 from small donation. The R-pi community is huge and piplay has it's own not small community with in the larger world of ip. This wouldn't have made it very far if it was a BBB project. The pi is slow and the hardware is not very impressive but that's not the point. It's cheep, small, hacking friendly, and is trying to get young people to learn about computing. The best way to no that is by having lots of different interesting protects around to try. |
| ark_ader:
The Pi was supposed to introduce programming to the UK schools, that we're pushing ICT to its students. I haven't seen too many schools adopting the Pi, but the spirit was there for the A model that supposed to be like a USB key. Priced so any child could afford a computer that was more than a console. Now I see this kick starter and it sends a message to the organizers of the Pi, that it was a waste of time. I think this a classic example of a bad idea, then the kids should be learning to code and not distracted by playing console games. Nice that the guy has a project, but unless he is teaching the youngsters how to code emulators, this is an incredible waste of resources. |
| Locke141:
There are literally thousands of well documented projects to do on the R-pi. If the R-pi was just for learning scratch and python you could do that with a CD. There would be no point of making a physical computer. This is just one more project. There are others on how to control the temp of brewing beer, making an Asterisk server (BPX phone), making a weather station, putting a weather balloon + GPS + camera & R-pi near space. There is a hole magazine dedicated to projects you can do with a R-Pi. The point is having lots of fun options, leads to lots of opportunities to learn. Motivations + challenge = learning. Experimentation is the best path to deep learning. If say you wanted to install pi play, you would need to learn how to use DD in command line. If you want to use the GPIO's to interface to the controls, you may need to remap the GPIO. It's just another peace of the puzzle. |
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