Rasberry Pi - Hmmm - what is the future for this one?

[martint123]

Well I certainly lust after one. $35 / £22 for USB/Ethernet/HDMI/SD card/Composite/Audio

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439

[bgowland]

Looks like it may be fun.

[mvallevand]

Not advanced enough for me, but I do have put myself on the list for the CuBox Here it is running XBMC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEoMYEJls4

Martin

[martint123]

There seem to be so many of these popping up, how on earth does anyone select which to jump onto?
I liked the one I mentioned mainly on price as they can be used for minor applications.
These definitely take me back to my Nascom 1 days which provided so much enjoyment and education.

[bgowland]

There seem to be so many of these popping up, how on earth does anyone select which to jump onto?
I liked the one I mentioned mainly on price as they can be used for minor applications.
These definitely take me back to my Nascom 1 days which provided so much enjoyment and education.

Yes it seems the designer is of the late 70s/early 80s generation of home micros. My first was a ZX80 which I quickly ditched for a (little known) Microtan 65. It had TV out but the basic model only had a hex keypad. BASIC interpreter and even assembler were optional extras as was an ASCII keyboard.

A few years later as an electronics apprentice I used one as a controller for a small-scale industrial robot arm. Great fun and very educational.

The low price suggests it's being subsidised to encourage education (as the BBC article mentions). A new generation of people like us...hmmm, that's a scary thought.

Cheers,
Brian

[Reddwarf]

Ah yes, I remember those. My first "real" computer was a Mycron 8080, black box with two 8" 144K drives, running CP/M and later MP/M with UCSD Pascal

[mvallevand]

My first was the Commodore Pet over 30 years ago. Back then I paid more for a calculator with a square root key, then many of these new small computers cost.

Martin

[sub]

I started with the ZX81. Still got it somewhere.

[martint123]

Still got my first one.
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[bgowland]

Good grief, a SCRUMPI - that's a blast from the past I'd totally forgotten about. Never owned one but I remember the ads in the monthly electronics magazines I used to get.