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Adafruit Releases Educational Linux Distro For Raspberry Pi
ptorrone writes "Open-source hardware company Adafruit has released a Linux Raspberry Pi distro for hardware hacking and teaching electronics. This distro comes with SPI, I2C, & OneWire WiFi. It also has some things to make overall hacking easier, such as sshd on startup (with key generation on first boot) and Bonjour (so you can simply ssh raspberrypi.local from any computer on the local network). The distro is called Occidentalis v0.1. Rubus occidentalis (the black raspberry) is derived from Raspbian Wheezy, and is available for download here."
Wait until they post about my beowulf cluster of bitcoin mining raspberry pi made with an arduino-controlled 3d-printer.
It was my understanding that the Pi was more of a hobbyist/educational market -- it's not for people who want a cheap computer (which is what your android device is) but for people who want a REALLY POWERFUL Arduino. Find me an Android device with SPI/I2C/OneWire. Or with GPI/O pins in general. I know there are devices to do that, but what kind of cost is that adding to your Android phone. Plus your phone seems cheaper because it's contract-free -- but that's only a benefit if you plan to use it in a way that it can still be your phone. I was considering a Pi for a barbot (though I'll probably just use my old laptop and an MSP430 for I/O) -- I'm certainly not building my phone into my bar...
(Not sure how a Pi is a better choice for a budding programmer than an Android phone.)
How many Android phones can you quickly and easily plug a keyboard into? And a mouse, and power the phone at the same time? And get a decent resolution on a monitor? Can you put your text editor up on one side of an Android screen and your terminal on the other? Just how much programming is actually possible using only an Android phone (on which you probably won't have root without jumping though hoops) anyway?
I was interested in one, once, but you can get a much more powerful Android phone for the same price as a Pi
Really? Without a contract? I wouldn't mind a link to one.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Adafruit are great. They produced an enhanced clone of the legendary Roland TB-303 bass synth and sequencer, then open sourced the circuit diagrams. Unlike the dozens of prevous 303 clones, they actually cloned the sequencer which was as essential to the appeal of the machine as the synth section.
Looks nice, but it seems the download link (Amazon S3 mirror) isn't working. I keep getting HTTP 403 Forbidden. Try back later I guess.
I was wondering what this is. Turns out slashdot/the submitter didn't understand "one wire, and wifi".
I love Adafruit. I love my Pi. But how is this news. Its just a slightly modified distro with a couple of extra kernel drivers compiled up. If they'd built them as DEBs then they could have just been dpkged in to wheezy anyway.
...is support for SPI and I2C. I'm hoping they've also applied (and tested) some of the latest kernel patches for GPIO interrupt support for the Pi. Only thing that makes this news for me is that I don't have waste the time side-building my own distro to get all this working (not to mention having a friendly ARM cross compiler, although crosstool helps with that immensely). I've grown really lazy as my years in Linux usage increase. Let the development begin.
Hopefully before Apple sues you for it.
Well. avoid rounded corners, then!
It was my understanding that the Pi was more of a hobbyist/educational market -- it's not for people who want a cheap computer (which is what your android device is) but for people who want a REALLY POWERFUL Arduino. Find me an Android device with SPI/I2C/OneWire. Or with GPI/O pins in general. I know there are devices to do that, but what kind of cost is that adding to your Android phone. Plus your phone seems cheaper because it's contract-free -- but that's only a benefit if you plan to use it in a way that it can still be your phone. I was considering a Pi for a barbot (though I'll probably just use my old laptop and an MSP430 for I/O) -- I'm certainly not building my phone into my bar...
I'm afraid I can't agree on that. Firstly, because I believe that the stated goals of the RPi's developers was quite explicitly a "cheap computer to facilitate learning" and secondly because the RPi isn't nearly as well suited for primitive hardware hacking as the Arduino.
I have designed Arduino circuits to serve as solar charge controllers, scan punched cards and operate home automation systems. I have run a Raspberry VM (don't have the hardware yet) that emulates an IBM System/370 mainframe computer (via Project Hercules) and acts as a direct replacement for one of my older webservers running Apache/PHP and MySQL database client.
Actually, I'm seriously thinking of using a Raspberry Pi as a scheduler and smart control interface to an Arduino X-10 automation controller.
I was curious about this as well and his claim actually isn't as far off as you might think. Amazon's got prepaid phones that support HDMI output starting around $220. Personally I've got about $90 into my Pi, counting the SD Card and case. If you also want WiFi that's another twenty bucks, plus another $13 for a powered USB hub since the Pi itself can't put out enough juice. A phone's still more expensive, but isn't too much more when you consider it'd also have a built-in display, battery, and GSM or CDMA radio.