26 Feb
2013
26 Feb
'13
6:45 p.m.
On 2/26/13 5:39 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 2:01 PM PST Doc Shipley wrote:
Granted. As I said, an accessible *entry point* into hacking.
My first foray into hot rods was a carburetor swap, not a full engine
build. I'd never have finished a motor if I'd jumped right into the
deep end.
Doc
My take on the Raspberry Pi is that it offers
EXACTLY what it claims to offer. A cheap, accessible ENTRY POINT into programming and/or
hardware hacking.
It seems to be more about high level hardware interfacing then hardware hacking in the
purest sense - chip level interfacing. Building or modifying a sbc, even a very
rudimentary one, from discrete parts is more of what I would expect, and what I did expect
when I first heard of it. Or being able to add some sort of functionality, etc.