26 Feb
2013
26 Feb
'13
3:39 p.m.
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 2:01 PM PST Doc Shipley wrote:
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.
26 Feb
26 Feb
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. 
8:54 p.m.
On 2/26/13 6:45 PM, "Doc Shipley" <doc at vaxen.net> wrote:
On 2/26/13 5:39 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
+1, and I did eventually do a full engine rebuild. (We've talked, I'm
pretty sure you have, too.)
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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.
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