20 May
2013
20 May
'13
7:09 p.m.
On 21 May 2013 02:43, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> wrote:
Why is everybody loving this raspberry pie (sic!)
board?
Because it's so very cheap, and it can run a full desktop OS - about 4
or 5 of them, in fact. It also makes a decent media player.
Have never used mine. I prefer the beaglebone.
The Beaglebone is a tool for a hardware hacker. While the Ras? appeals
to them too, it also appeals to those who think a Volt is a model of
car and a pin is something dressmakers use.
OK, it's a fairly rubbish Linux desktop computer, but it works, it's
tiny and convenient and solid-state, it needs only simple generic COTS
peripherals, and it's so cheap that you can give them to children to
play with and it doesn't matter if they break them - because each unit
costs roughly the same as a basic restaurant meal.
Raspberry pi and it's
Broadcom chip are a bit too closed source for me.
I agree. I still want one, though, because it runs RISC OS and I used
to love that OS in the 1980s.
And it has nearly no
expansion pins.
This does not matter at all to me, nor to most would-be owners, I
think. If I wanted to play with hardware, I would not have sold my
Lego Mindstorms kit.
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