On 05/03/2012 00:48, brass monkey wrote:
"Bob wrote in message
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On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:38:29 +0000, Rick wrote:

On 04/03/2012 10:10 PM, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:09:32 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

Since the Raspberry Pi will be with us soon-ish (well, about six weeks
I am told, for mine) does anyone have any interesting ideas about what
they might do with it/them?

I've heard of car computers, TV boxes, PBCes as ideas...

PBC = PBX



I remember a similar looking dev board that came out back around 1981 ..
it had a built in Hexadecimal keypad... you do a whole days worth of
coding and get a stepper motor to revolve or a set of LED's chase a
traffic light sequence.
The issue was none of the students could be arsed to do this more than
once .... then would rather play with the Commodore pet.

I think that is the problem with Dev board approach, it provides so
little for your effort when you can instead just go use a PC and gui.

Well, the RP has a quarter of a gigabyte of memory and a reasonably
powerful CPU. And a place to attach keyboard, mouse and display. So it's
a bit more than a development board.

It maybe needs something like this to make it a decent toy -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-Serial...item483c978fbc

It already has some of that onboard IIRC...


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Cheers,

John.

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