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Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Unveiled
First time accepted submitter anwe79 writes "Those of you who have been wishing for a Raspberry Pi this Christmas will sadly not get your wish granted. However, you may be happy to hear that populated beta boards have now been produced. Beta of course means the boards still have some more testing to undergo. But, if all goes well, those inclined should be able to get their hands on production boards in January!"
Wikipedia says the point of these is to "inspire learning computer science". Do you really need one of these to day that? This things seems really pointless to me. If you really like computer science just write code on your home computer. If you really want to write code for embedded microcontrollers, you already have plenty of cheap (or as cheap as they can be) options.
This raspberry pi thing is rather pointless. In addition, this is neither news for nerds nor stuff that matters. Slow holidays Slashdot?
You're too dumb to be too dumb.
Wanna be dumb? Here's a tip: get 120V AC (or 240VAC if you're in Europe), plug one lead into the chip ground and the other into the chip's VDD.
It's like watching the destruction of a fictional space-thing - the chip's shape stays intact, but there is a horizontal planar explosion through the seams.
+1, informative
Arduinos are for retards. They're for all the people who seek validation being able to get LEDs to blink without knowing any annoying facts like operating voltages.
The Raspberry Pi, however, is a BASIC stamp. That means that the real money-makers, the ones who know microcode, get back to work.
Raspberry Pi microcontrollers are already at work in the utility(they do everything SIEMENS PLCs do at a fraction of the price), finance(oh, those floating points - give us those pennies!), and defense(improvised bombs, which will never be used against us) sectors.