Raspberry Pi

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

On 22/05/12 16:08, Marc Nostromo [M-.-n] wrote:
>
> I was pretty sure the subject came in but didn't find (quickly) any references
> in the archives.
>
> Any one tried it ? Is it worth exploring as a cheap ass unix embedded board ?
>
> I was expecting much lesser specs.

it needs proper d/a converters, and at present you could only get that using a 
usb device (so, not great latency)

definitely the platform the chameleon should have become: anyone can design 
their own interface, and the number of units being sold is in the hundreds of 
thousands

the most essential aspect being that most of the code written for it will run on 
other hardware, so there's no lock in. also r-pi (not-for-profit) foundation is 
planning to make their pc-design files available to competitors.

we will see plenty more of this kind of thing:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27867/?p1=blogs

with cost coming down, specs going up, and a huge developer community increasing 
in number.

the only thing worth noting is that r-pi uses an older generation of ARM 
instruction set.

given this seems to make the CPU that much more affordable to so many, i 
personally have no problem with using a compiler.... or even writing a bit of 
assembler, if there are hundreds of thousands already waiting to download code ;)

Tony (HB)