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ark_ader:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 07, 2014, 01:20:39 am ---I think the group didn't initially give schools priority buy was because there was virtually nothing out there. It's fine if you want to push a new product onto schools but most schools don't have a budget for any sort of internal support much less any sort of external support contracts. I think the group was trying to bulk up the community (ala Arduino) so the teachers and students have someone to turn to.

Which kind of leads me to my next point. I can't vouch for the rest of the world, but schools up to the High School level state side are practically being spoon fed the curriculum. It's kind of embarrassing really but I digress, Pi isn't going to be a part of any school, at all, if it doesn't make it into the curriculum (or that whole Obama  :censored: gets  :censored: :censored:). I would imagine that the group was hoping to get enough market penetration that more schools might take notice. I dunno, I'm just guessing.

That whole ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- with the NDA and the ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up boot sequence might have something to do with it. That would be a stretch, but if a product markets itself as a student worthy product where they can get into the nuts and bolts but proceeds to hide some of it away, I would look elsewhere.

But yeah, a shell is necessary, at least a clear one. In college, we beat the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the 68HC11 boards just by moving them around. I think the hardware class spent half their time soldering those poor boards back together so the software class can hammer away at them.

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Sorry I was referencing the UK school system.  The US 6-12 grade is pretty dire when it comes to computing and mathematics, and doesn't worth mentioning in this scenario.  UK schools was supposed to have PIs instead of ICT.  The raspberry Pi is a UK product.
Locke141:
I'll start by saying I work in education, I am an early adopter of the R-pi, and I have seen Eben Upton (the founder of the R-pi foundation) speak and got to chat with him and his wife Liz for a bit after.

The Wikipedia entry the story starts on a later point in the story then I am going to recap here. The Raspberry Pi project was the idea of Eben when he was working at Cambridge. He noticed many of the incoming computer science (C.S.) students had never programed. The idea of the Raspberry pi was to make a run of boards to give to incoming students to motivate them to learn Python. The short version is they were going to try to fund the small project by R-pi's on line. They received a huge number of orders and the mission changed. 

There are lots of schools in the U.K. that do use the R-pi in ICT classes, the foundations runs free trains for teachers, the R-pi is also used by lots of people for non school projects and that great! There are thousand of people all over the world making, learning, and teach with the R-pi. The more fun,interesting, exciting things there are to try on a R-pi, the more likely kids are going to want to get one and try a project themselves.

I have a MK802. It is faster then a R-pi but still slow and is less hack able. Speed is the the point.   

   

 
   
kahlid74:
There are use cases for RaspberryPi.  There were many more when it first came out.  BB and Arduino have since gotten more competitive but the RaspberryPi still has a nice price point.  I use two RaspberryPi's in my house; one for pool automation (Automatic testing of ORD{Chlorine} and pH) and one for the furnace in the house with a PiFace for SSR control.


--- Quote from: Locke141 on May 05, 2014, 12:10:40 pm ---He made an OS for the pi that comes with all the video game emulators a pi can handle. It does 99% of the work .

The kick starter is to improve support.   

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For me, Kickstarter's purpose isn't that.  If he wants support he needs to work on a big DONATE button for his website.  Either way I've rolled emulators on Pi and it's very underwhelming.  To each their own!
Locke141:

--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 07, 2014, 10:03:49 am ---There are use cases for RaspberryPi.  There were many more when it first came out.  BB and Arduino have since gotten more competitive but the RaspberryPi still has a nice price point.  I use two RaspberryPi's in my house; one for pool automation (Automatic testing of ORD{Chlorine} and pH) and one for the furnace in the house with a PiFace for SSR control.


--- Quote from: Locke141 on May 05, 2014, 12:10:40 pm ---He made an OS for the pi that comes with all the video game emulators a pi can handle. It does 99% of the work .

The kick starter is to improve support.   

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For me, Kickstarter's purpose isn't that.  If he wants support he needs to work on a big DONATE button for his website.  Either way I've rolled emulators on Pi and it's very underwhelming.  To each their own!

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All good points.

R-pi is not and will not be a great, or even a good, options for the vast majority of projects here. Out side of Micro cabs I can't think of any. It does not mean it's a bad idea to get people interested. 

Indiegogo my have been a better setting for this kind of thing.

I think the more things people do with the R-pi the more likely kids will pick one up and learn something.

 

 
nitrogen_widget:
I've been playing around with my PI.
Right now it's a toss-up between a custom linux distro on a p3 or my pi for my vertical classics cab.
both can boot off SD card, the p3 will have a few fans.

The PI does really well with older games & i've seen on the forums it handles capcom & neogeo stuff well also.
The PI also has the option to wire the controls directly to it's in/out pins and emulate  keyboard presses.

Front ends on the PI are not as cool. There are two main front ends are emulationstation & advance menu.
Right now Emulationstation has had bug that renders it not usable in the vertical orientation for almost a yr & every time I compile Advance menu I boot into a black screen.

I have installed wah!cade on my PI but it ran way too slow even with the basic 640x480 layout so i've moved on from that.
Definitely a learning curve compared to Linux & Windows.

as for the beaglebone black....well, if i'm going to pay that much more for a tiny PC I might as well get an Atom or Amd E-series setup for a few bucks more.
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