[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi launched!

Fri Mar 2 11:38:12 EST 2012

I'm VERY interested in discussing and testing ALL of the Similar devices
and am ready to order some up for us to play with at the next GRLUG Social.

Richard and I were online for the raspberryPi launch but ran into the same
issues as the rest of the group and eventually fell asleep.

I got a ROKU last week and someone said that the inside was a raspberryPi
can anyone confirm?

Currently I'm trying to purchase both raspberryPi and some Beagle boards,
please send your suggestions for similar boards so I can get them ordered
also.

Regards,

Casey

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Clay Ashby <kingpoiuy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think for me it's simply the price. Most devices like this tend to be
> closer to $100 or more. Yes, I have an old smart phone which I can put
> Debian on, but that is only one device. I probably can't find an old used
> smartphone for $35 especially one with Ethernet and HDMI.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>  Oh, I don't disagree at all.  I think it's quite a cool project and will
>> probably end up buying one (or something like it) myself someday.
>>
>> What I object to is the artificial barrier the thought of it seems to be
>> building in peoples' minds against them achieving their goals right away.
>>
>> And keep in mind this is coming from a guy who really misses the days
>> when you could walk into a local electronics store and buy a 4017, so I may
>> be a little biased toward building things myself.  :)
>>
>> - Kyle
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/29/2012 11:26 PM, John Wesorick wrote:
>>
>> A supported common platform is one reason. Availability (once they start
>> mass producing them) and price are others. For my project at least (same
>> thing with RaspBMC) , it would be super easy to host the already
>> built/setup OS, download it and dd to an SD card.
>>
>> Also, all hacking that's done on them benefits education (the Raspberry
>> Pi's main goal) in two ways. One, so the capabilities of the device can be
>> explored/tutorialized (yes, that's a word I just made up) and second that
>> once they are produced for schools, there will already be tons of cool
>> projects for kids to get excited for.
>>
>> My two cents.
>> On Feb 29, 2012 11:11 PM, "Kyle" <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  What I wonder is why there's so much hype for this when there are other
>>> cheap low-power ARM devices being thrown out all the time.  There are
>>> plenty of cell phones and other devices that'll run Debian just fine - old
>>> cell phones, old e-book readers, etc. - that suit the purposes of a number
>>> of the members' use cases.  Even broken devices.  Who needs a working EDGE
>>> modem - just about anything with WiFi fits the bill on a bunch of the use
>>> cases, and any device that has software control of USB host mode (most ARM
>>> devices I've encountered) solve the external storage cases.  HDMI requires
>>> a phone or other device with an HDMI port (without an external graphics
>>> card on USB host mode or something similar).  Some of the devices
>>> (particularly e-readers) do not have media decoding chips, but I don't see
>>> a need for that, nor even seeing it being used due to unlikeliness of
>>> compiler compatibility in a case like an Asterisk server.  That may be
>>> inaccurate, but it still satisfies a lot of use cases.  I mean, I regularly
>>> carry around two ARM devices that run Debian (and were not designed to) and
>>> one that runs Ubuntu (again, not designed for it).  It's not particularly
>>> difficult.  There are tools available to build chroot images that often
>>> times you can run under Android with minimal effort, giving you a familiar
>>> userland which you can apt-get install packages to.
>>>
>>> Don't get me wrong - the Raspberry Pi is a cool device - but I guess my
>>> point is that even without getting one, the possibilities and wants I've
>>> seen expressed are already achievable!  Go build cool things!
>>>
>>> - Kyle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/29/2012 08:57 AM, Clay Ashby wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm looking forward to playing with this. For the purpose of
>>> conversation; what's everyone planning to do with theirs? Maybe this has
>>> already been discussed and I missed it...
>>>
>>>  My first thought was getting it to access internet through my Android
>>> phone. It might be fun to try and cluster a few of them - pointless, but
>>> fun.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Brandon White <rbwhite18 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Same situation here... lame...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:18 AM, megadave wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Actually R-Pi's site was fine.
>>>> >
>>>> > It was their 'partner sites' (the ones that were supposed to be
>>>> > actually taking orders) that fell over hard.
>>>> >
>>>> > FWIW, I was actually on at the time (by plan) trying to get in and
>>>> > order.. I tried for half an hour before giving up and going to bed. It
>>>> > appears that all either of their partner sites are now offering is
>>>> > "register an interest".
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:42, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> Official launch was a few hours ago (6am GMT), and the demand was
>>>> high
>>>> >> enough to cripple their site. Shall we start a betting pool on how
>>>> long it
>>>> >> will take before somebody at GRLUG has one in hand on this side of
>>>> the
>>>> >> ocean?
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