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Putting the Raspberry Pi Into Orbit
Jack Spine writes "The Raspberry Pi is likely to be blasted into space, according to project founder Eben Upton. The $35/$25 credit-card-sized single-board educational computer could be used in sounding rockets, satellites, and high altitude balloon tests, according to Upton. Raspberry Pi has proved wildly popular since its launch, with one developer planning to build into a model boat to sail it across the Atlantic."
Why launch one into space when you can't even keep up with demand here on Earth?
I was hurtin' for another pi article.
But I think Rasberry Pi is a terrible name. Reminds me of some icky porn title. They should change it.
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why give a shit about something you can't buy? I've given up on the pi. By the time they get around to the second batch, somebody else will have produced a superior version.
Every time a Pi story comes up I just see the page full of bitter comments. The Pi stuff is at least news for nerds and is hopefully fostering a lot of interest on the small scale, instead of regurgitating the same sh*t about what the big IT corps are forcing down our throats.
A little less bitterness, a little more inspiration. Is there no-one left on Slashdot who’s the slightest bit geeky any more?
I have been playing with my Raspberry Pi for a little while now, mostly as a media center and like the way the CEC package works with CEC compatible TV, turns on the TV and you use the TV remote. With all the developing going on, I suspect that before too long I will be able to put together a Raspberry Pi with an ipcam viewer app that can turn on the TV when a proximity switch is activated. I already have an Adroid app for ip cameras that also support TPZ , which could be rewired along with a inexpensive radio controlled, battery powered helicopter with an ip cam mounted and it's possible to have a small personal security drone. A coworker insists it needs a weapon but if worse comes to worse, the helicopter can become the weapon. For home security you do not need much time in the air, just enough to get the license plate numbers ect for the 911 call. Yes you can do it all already with out the Raspberry Pi but not at the same price - that is the key benefit to it all, a system for a few hundred as oppossed to a few thousand dollars.
Are they launching some space-hardened version? What about the radiation in space?
They could have got at least a dozen Slashdot posts that way!
I mean... BitCoins in space! How important is that?
Because everyone does it these days. Every other university has a student "space exploration interest club" who launch a helium balloon to "near" space, snap a picture and recover their "satellite". Google launched 7 such balloons with a bunch of Android phones onboard to prove that "Android works in space", and the iPad pouch creators launched one to show how their pouch/case protects your iPad in the event of it accidentally falling from space. A couple of years ago it was "it can run your toaster", now it's "it works in space", everyone does it. Two questions asked of *every* new device out there: Will it blend? Will it work in space?
The really creative folks launch chairs into space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hSDbAo2WMk&feature=player_embedded -- where's safety?) or a tent with people inside.
Putting something into orbit using sounding rockets and high altitude balloons? That sounds challenging...
... of components due to lack of air (and gravity!) for convection cooling. I think that these are not the same things (although they are related) the sunlit side of the satellite could be a toasty 100 degrees C, while the dark side could be -100. If the satellite is spinning but not fast enough perhaps some traces could expand and contract enough to break. Meanwhile without air to conduct heat, a single small component on the board could overheat and fail.
I think the Russians (at least in the early days), put their electronics in pressured boxes with fans to stir the air. The Americans developed space (vacuum) ready components and designs from the get go.
Put this Raspebrry Pi in my hands.
WHEN THEY ACTUALLY SELL THE FUCKING THINGS TO PEOPLE
Maybe when I can order one and have it at my house in less than 6 months, then I'll give a fuck about what you can do with them. This may as well be one of the million other vaporware products that were always impossible to get.
LK
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I wonder how they plan to hold it down, given that the Pi board's lack of mounting holes is something of an annoying fail. There's not even much space on the edge of the board to clamp it, which seems to have created an interesting challenge to those now making Pi-cases. Although in this application, I assume most of the connectors would be removed, giving a bit more spare board-area.
Maybe if you cared enough to actually order one on February 29 or on March 1st, you'd had one. It's been 2 months since i received both my RPis.
Whoever really wanted an Raspberry Pi already has one - the rest are the typical /. trolls.
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His boat was going to be driven by a solar powered propeller. Turns out that he hadn't thought much about barnacles and seaweed....
Please see my post about this all. http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2942427&cid=40468271
I hope someone will do an article about me when i actually get going past the initial thought process. I am planning to send my hamster into space. I will be using a Raspberry Pi so we are calling the project Space Pi. I haven't actually started yet since I wanted to do the full planning on a raspberry pi. Everything from writing up the design specifications using FOSS software on the PI its self using a FOSS monitor/keyboard/mouse and using Foss drawing packages, and hooking up a PI webserver to spread the word of my ambition.
Just to note I had the same plans when I got my first palm pilot IIIc, first win ce device, andriod phone, and and yes I forgot it's been so long my, commodore 64 which almost had more power than the space shuttle. Please post when they are though the design and are at the full testing part, not a few days in. If you really want I could post some paper drawing of my asperations if everyone thinks it will help me make a kickstarter page to get a few million dollars, or a few million in bit coins that I can convert to some real cash. Oh yea did I mention I was going to use the Raspberry Pi to be a bitcon hub, I plan on colouring it blue so I can call it a "Bit of blueberry pi".
Cons:
It's fair to say that there are a few "issues" with Raspberry Pi, so it's not surprising to see what you call "bitter comments" both here and on various Raspberry Pi forums (but not on the official forums because open discussion is censored over there).
Only a community of fanbois doesn't have a balance of pro and con views and open discussion about them. If you see both favorable and critical comments, you're looking at a healthy community.
Another Raspberry Pi article! Where are the Arduino news?
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Yes, thermal control is a problem. No, it is not a showstopper that stops you using COTS electronics in space.
Who else thinks the Raspberry Pi is dumb? It's not a microcontroller, and it teaches you nothing about embedded programming. It's just a slimmed down PC wanna-be; a shitty SoC. BUT IT'S $25! I could easily buy an old PC without a HDD at a garage sell for $25, that out powers the Raspberry Pi, is open to more distributions, can easily program on in many languages, and can be ABI compatible with my computers. THIS would help kids learn about programming. It would also re-purpose old machines.
Raspberry Pi propaganda spread by lintards and freetards is cancer.
It's not CMOS, so the potential for single-event upsets (SEUs) in low earth orbit (LEO) is significant. Especially after a significant X-class flare pointed directly at the earth...
I don't do pre-orders. If someone doesn't have the item that I want in stock, I won't order.
If I can't have it in 3 days, I don't order.
I'm just getting really sick of these slashvertisements. If it's not in stock anywhere, it's vapor.
LK
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