On 2/25/2013 2:45 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Yo uget a bit of paper telling you it
doens't meet the EMD directives (!) and a single sheet telling you how
to set it up. The latter is very incomplete.
I suspect most of the people are now
upgraded from 300 baud and TTY
connections to the internet. And shipping the > 500,000 units already
shipped with more paper would make no sense. I was perfectly happy
with what I got.
I will certainly be hitting one of your software complaints, and that
is that I plan to duplicate the software and source repository locally
at some time soon, but have not gotten around to it. Look up how to
duplicate a debian repo and there are example instructions. You won't
get it done via dialup, a fairly fast connection to the internet is
required.
I think as far as an educational tool is concerned, it is quite a good
tradeoff of features. All of your hardware concerns have been pointed
out, but they are not unique to PI at all, and most people who will do
any interfacing will deal with them. The loudest complaint I hear is
generally that there is nowhere near enough I/O brought out, not that
it is broken.
The Rev2.0 board has an additional header BUT a different pin out on the
original GPIO header.