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Raspberry Pi, Smart Highways Win World's Biggest Design Prize
An anonymous reader writes "Last night the €500,000 INDEX: Award was awarded to five designs that can improve life for millions of people around the world. The winners include high-tech highways that light up at night, the $25 Raspberry Pi computer, a simple piece of paper that can cut food waste by extending the life of fresh produce by 2-4 weeks, and a plan for adapting to climate change."
The latter will do better to benefit the one percenters.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Ummm maybe because only techie hipsters have heard of any of those? Raspberry Pi is a viable platform that people can easily get a hold of, has a growing community (developers, tutorials, etc), and is affordable.
Great, more light pollution for astronomers.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
from TFA:
If the road could talk to you, what would it say?
i'm guessing it would be something like, "OWW! OWW! GET OFF ME! IT HURTS!"
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Well considering people do not have the opportunity to go to a market or store every day, it might be worth the time, fuel and energy saved. Not to mention that people might buy and eat more vegetables, knowing they would be able to use them all.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
Refrigeration provides a controlled clean environment; the temperature doesn't have much to do with it for many foods, but the sealed space keeps out insects etc. and the humidity control is an added bonus.
THIS is something that could be extremely beneficial to most of the world, especially areas near the equator.
From the above list:
ODROID - $90
CubieBoard - $90
MK908 - $65
RPi - $30
How dare people vote with their dollars.
Where is moderation: -1 False?
The Pi is an ARMv6 with a FPU attached, and a decent GPU. Most of the new ARM SBCs out there now are ARMv7 which should be more efficient. Often they have NEON support to help with hardware decoding media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON.29.
Also Debian and Ubuntu only have official builds for ARMv7. The Debian team rebuilds ARMv6 as a seperate distro (Raspbian) for the Pi.
Many of the other boards are well within $10 of the price of a Pi, but include eMMC flash on the board so no SD card is required to boot the OS making the TCO about the same or cheaper if you are buying fast SD cards to boot quickly on the Pi.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3310907/what-are-the-advantages-of-armv7-over-armv6-when-compiling-iphone-apps
Consumer Reports covered Fresh Paper a few months back, and from their testing, determined an air-tight container performed better.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/06/claim-check-fenugreen-freshpaper/index.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDR20j0aTUY
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
Ummm... reduces lost of water by evaporation (juicier for longer time).
Slows down the ripening process... when if comes to shelf life, the supermarkets will count as a loss a too high quantity of ripen fruits that need to be sold in a short time (at a lower price). Because ripe fruits can be damaged not only by bacteria/fungi but also by... hold on... their own weight (have you tasted a peach ripen on the tree until juicy, fragrant and so soft you can take a bite from it with you lips? You won't be able to ever buy it from the supermarket).
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
From which I deduce you eat all your fruit mostly within 2 weeks of purchase. The fruit wholesalers may keep it for 2 years in cold storage though (and still have the audacity to sell it to you as fresh).
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
A couple of points to bear in mind:
- You can now buy a Model B Pi bundled with a fast 8GB SD card for $40 from both our primary distributors.
- Most other cheap boards use the Cortex A8 core, which is rather a primitive implementation of the ARMv7 ISA. In particular, while it's great at memcpy() and reasonable at integer operations, it has rather poor floating point performance; for a floating-point performance comparison of ARM11+VFP, Cortex A8 and the (more modern and capable) Cortex A9, see:
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/466?page=7
In other news, the FreshPaper guys are amazing. Definitely the stars of the show here in Copenhagen.
FTFA
I think it has as much, or more, to do with the culture surrounding the Raspberry Pi foundation as it does with the price point.
This is good work these people are doing and it is about making a difference (hence the whole point of the award).
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Consumer Reports covered Fresh Paper a few months back, and from their testing, determined an air-tight container performed better.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/06/claim-check-fenugreen-freshpaper/index.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDR20j0aTUY
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Greater probability of mechanical failure, whereas Glow in the dark temperature reactive paint may just need a very rare periodic repaint, just as the normal road paints require that are in use today.
Replying on the (probably optimistic) assumption that you're actually interested.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a somewhat unusual charity, in that it derives the bulk of its funding from trading activities rather than through "shake the tin" fundraising. In this respect we resemble charities which run high-street retail businesses to supplement their charitable income. Once you reach a certain size, it is considered good practice to separate trading activities into another, generally wholly-owned, business entity, and to have substantially non-overlapping board membership between the charity and the trading entity. I resigned in order to reduce the overlap to a single person, Jack Lang, who chairs the boards of both entities; we subsequently added Louis Glass to the Foundation board, restoring it to the original complement of six people.
More detail in our public filings at Companies House (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/).