Raspberry Pi - 35$ computer on a card

Not shipping just yet, but the company says "soon".

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It's exciting stuff. Low powered, cheap, enough resources for HD playback. Lets hope the supply will live up to the demand. First small batch got sold out in seconds yesterday.

future smartphones will trample this thing, it's just an intermediary step..

for $35 i am interested

  On 3/1/2012 at 6:57 PM, eugene said:

future smartphones will trample this thing, it's just an intermediary step..

Current smartphones trample this thing, but they cost 10 times more.

Looks pretty fucking wicked.

  On 3/1/2012 at 7:08 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 3/1/2012 at 6:57 PM, eugene said:

future smartphones will trample this thing, it's just an intermediary step..

 

Current smartphones trample this thing, but they cost 10 times more.

they don't really cost 10 times more, they're just marketed this way. it's a shame that this thing isn't really a direct competition.

What are you talking about? Find me a smartphone with those inputs and outputs (2xUSB, Ethernet, HDMI, GPIO) under $350... This isn't a smartphone, it's a computer for $35 which can provide various services your stupid dumbphone can not because of its retarded software jail, closed hardware design or lack of connectivity. It can be a router/firewall, a fileserver, a webserver, a VOIP server, a media player/server, it can be used to control your domotics and so on.

The name is unfortunate, it sounds like a cheap Blackberry knock-off you'd get on a market.

  On 3/1/2012 at 7:26 PM, eugene said:

  On 3/1/2012 at 7:08 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 3/1/2012 at 6:57 PM, eugene said:

future smartphones will trample this thing, it's just an intermediary step..

 

Current smartphones trample this thing, but they cost 10 times more.

they don't really cost 10 times more, they're just marketed this way. it's a shame that this thing isn't really a direct competition.

OK, 5 times more? Can we say that, at least?

Also these seem a lot more hackable and developer-friendly than smartphones. It's kind of apples and oranges. I want one of these to run a small, low-powered home webserver off, for example. While I could run a webserver off my phone there are logistical problems with that.

fuck this is neat, i want to use one of these with my projector

does it run crysis?

I want to try to run a dedicated Minecraft server on this, and then later when they allow you to buy more than one I would like to add a dedicated Sauerbraten server.

  On 3/1/2012 at 8:31 PM, SecondaryCell said:

I want to try to run a dedicated Minecraft server on this, and then later when they allow you to buy more than one I would like to add a dedicated Sauerbraten server.

Yeah, at this price, you could just have a dedicated server/client for whatever you want. This seems kind of ridiculous until you consider that you could strategically place them, e.g. plugged into the TV, in the kitchen, etc. Combine this with stuff like USB-enabled Arduinos (for nearly the same price, I might add!) and you can have a computer that that fits almost anywhere and uses whatever interface you want, as long as its processing requirements aren't too demanding. Great.

could you buy like 20 for £500 or whatever and link them all up into some kind of supercomputer? then like, become a supervillian or something....

can it act as a server for something with 256mb of shared ram and a 700 mhz cpu ?

(im not sarcastic i just don't really know what are the requirements of servers for such stuff)

  On 3/1/2012 at 8:47 PM, eugene said:

can it act as a server for something with 256mb of shared ram and a 700 mhz cpu ?

(im not sarcastic i just don't really know what are the requirements of servers for such stuff)

Yep, that just depends on what the demands placed on it are. As long as you're doing it for fun and not trying to run some high-traffic blog or something, you should be fine.

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4012 Apple ][ web server... ironically appears to be down right now lol.

  On 3/1/2012 at 8:47 PM, eugene said:

can it act as a server for something with 256mb of shared ram and a 700 mhz cpu ?

(im not sarcastic i just don't really know what are the requirements of servers for such stuff)

servers have been run on far less spec'd equipment.

Ah, here we go.

http://ingles.homeun...bsrv/index.html

  Ray Ingles Home Page said:

About This Webserver

 

This web site is hosted on a Macintosh SE/30 running NetBSD. First introduced in 1989, it's quite possibly the best compact Mac ever made.

 

...

 

Specifications

Feature Macintosh SE/30

Processor Motorola 68030, 16MHz

RAM 32MB (128MB max)

ROM 512KB

Screen 512x342, b/w

Disk 4 GB

CD-ROM 2x (300KB/sec), CD & CD-R media

Modem 14.4 baud data, 9600 baud FAX

yeah, i kinda forgot that there was networking and computers in the 90's too for a moment

you could use this as your own personal music streaming server.

set it up so that it accesses your FLAC files sitting on your 1TB external USB hard drive, and it will transcode on the fly and stream to your device of choice while you're out and about.

very cool stuff

cool. i just imagine fashioning your own little case and customizing it for music/video purposes. i can definitely dig it.

this is such an exciting time to be alive.

I need one of these so my girlfriend stops using my high end laptop to do incredibly low end stuff whilst swirling drinks and not paying attention to what shes doing

  On 3/1/2012 at 7:26 PM, eugene said:

  On 3/1/2012 at 7:08 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 3/1/2012 at 6:57 PM, eugene said:

future smartphones will trample this thing, it's just an intermediary step..

 

Current smartphones trample this thing, but they cost 10 times more.

they don't really cost 10 times more, they're just marketed this way. it's a shame that this thing isn't really a direct competition.

they easily cost more than 10x more when you factor in the monthly charges rolled up in acquiring one

  On 3/1/2012 at 9:02 PM, oscillik said:

you could use this as your own personal music streaming server.

 

set it up so that it accesses your FLAC files sitting on your 1TB external USB hard drive, and it will transcode on the fly and stream to your device of choice while you're out and about.

 

very cool stuff

Indeed.

I like the way it's more limited by the user's imagination than the machine's own performances. You could do so much with such a little thing in the hands…It's really exciting. Even in "pure" informatics purposes it's really interesting, running a small programming/testing station for example. I guess you could play some old games on it, even have a DAW working and bring it everywhere.

Gosh, I want one of those.