Not mentioned in the summary is a useful open source library to convert GPIO button presses to USB keyboard commands for the emulators. It uses minimal system resources, which is always good when working with the Raspberry Pi. You should be able to easily modify it to support more than the joystick and two buttons.
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame
This kind of response was certainly expected, thank you for the feedback though!
We built this because we thought that we could help people start quickly to get up and running with programs to blink LED's with their Raspberry Pi, or read temperatures with sensors attached to the GPIO pins (oh, and learn a little python, ruby or what have you, in the process!). We want it to be the easiest editing environment to use and setup on the Raspberry PI (low barrier to entry). We haven't built the guided experience yet, but you can kind of see which area of programming we're focusing on by looking at the following github repository: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code
Also, you have to start somewhere with someone just starting out in this quite complex, and layered environment. What better way than to have an editor that is pre-loaded with some basic scripts that will blink an LED, or read temperature and humidity off a sensor breakout, on their Raspberry Pi with little effort in an environment they're already comfortable with (a browser)?
Sure, they could start by first learning basic unix command line, then their editor of choice, and git, and python, and then interfacing with the RPi's GPIO pins, and on and on. We're just trying to remove some of these barriers.
An expert developer with loads of experience may not need this editor (but it is pretty convenient to just plug the pi into an ethernet port, and start hacking away in your browser...). But for someone that isn't sure how to navigate directories in a command line environment...well, this might help them out a bit (we even include a pretty powerful terminal emulator that may help them learn this!).
We're hoping to keep adding more advanced features as we go. We're releasing quite early in order to gather feedback to make it better suited for more people earlier in the process.
And yet Apple's competitors are having a difficult time matching the price of the iPad, and the Macbook Air (with comparable quality).
Maybe they're just a much more efficient company? Maybe it's a better run business to generate higher profits than their competitors?
Nah, has to be 'fanbois' giving away their money...
Depends on your definition of "automatically". From what I hear, there is this little prerequisite called "internet access".
If I had to take a guess, I'd imagine Google has already thought of this obvious issue. In fact, I bet Google Gears would fit in quite nicely in the Chrome OS. It seems to work well enough for offline access for a few of their apps already.
If you computer at home freezes, you hit reset. Trying pushing the reset button on a Mars rover--let me know how that works out for you.
Actually, in the article, he basically stated that they essentially do have a reset button. The software pings the hardware every 64 seconds. If the hardware doesn't receive the ping on time, it resets the software to potentially resolve the error/lockup.
Now in the event that that doesn't work, we have a whole second set of avionics onboard. So the hardware will try to boot to the same side, and if the same side doesn't come up and start stroking the watch-stop timer, then it will swap to the other side and boot the first side.
The problem is that cable tv was originally introduced as a completely different product than was advertised to everyone, including the government. It was supposed to be commercial free, and much more consumer friendly.
The problem with not having net neutrality is that even though there isn't a true monopoly it seems that the big ISP's work together to make more money, and that doesn't benefit the consumer.
As a consumer, why would you want it so you have to pay more, and have a nickel-and-dime service. We are already paying surcharges and fees for things that shouldn't have a fee or surcharge (note: Verizon and Cingular are famous for this).
Sometimes legislation, although unfortunate, is required to protect the consumers from being unfairly treated. The ISP's are already making money from you, and also making money from the websites that you go to. They are trying to double, and triple charge everyone to pad their pockets.
This happened to me with 10 domains. They held me hostage unless I paid some ridiculous amount.
They claimed we were spamming AOL domains, and we were not! It was a third party. They wouldn't even send me a copy of the spam emails. They would not listen to reason, or anything. It was the worst feeling being held hostage like that.
I didn't have lawyers to help me (couldn't afford them). You were lucky.
Godaddy is a scam, and an extortionist. I hope this story spreads all over the internet.
That's great that they are going for the gen x'ers, but once you can get a console in the hands of a college student, or kid, they will buy games with every single penny they have.
In college I would spend my entire months worth of money on video games, and struggle on crappy food.
When I was a kid, games were the only thing I ever wanted for gifts.
There are a lot of people aged kid to college student with money earmarked just for this type of thing.
Not only that, but locating the lines with a locator is not exactly a science. Some guy walks around with a wand (locator) and tries to find it, while also looking at maps. They are wrong way too many of the times.
One summer in high school I worked for a contractor that was burying telephone lines, and fiber to compete with Qwest in a smallish town. About once a week we would either hit, or get dangerously close to a gas/powerline/cable/telephone line due to the locators not marking them right. We hand dug to find the lines at every intersection we crossed them at. If we couldnt' find the line we would have a certain range we had to open up around the marker (I think it was 5 feet by 5 feet from OSHA) before we could cross that line.
I personally pounded a ground rod (read: highly conductive rod that all the junction boxes are grounded to) into a 3-phase electrical wire. I single handedly shut the power down in half the town for the whole day because the guy that located the wire was about 6-8 feet off to the west. It was so dry that summer that instead of electricuting (sp?) me the electricity from breaking the wire with the ground rod went down into the ground instead of up to myself. The electric co-op guys came over and said I had a 99.9 percent chance of gettting electricuted. I quit the job the next day. It wasn't worth the risk.
These guys would put backhoes into pressurized gas lines all the time. I always respected the backhoe guys. They had to dig in some pretty risky situations.
we don't have a 5%-operating-system-market-share glass ceiling," Jobs says. "And look at what's happened. That same innovation, that same engineering, that same talent applied where we don't run up against the fact that Microsoft got this monopoly, and boom! We have 75% market share."
This makes you wonder what the world would be like if Microsoft played fairly.
I think it might be for the better, but Apple seems to have a little bit of a monopolistic practice in their sleeves also (not letting any other mp3 devices play with iTunes, and iPods only working on iTunes).
In the same respect: If you were never able to use your computer, except when the power was off (I know, sounds ridiculous, but so does the parent); would you even bother to keep it up and running in case of emergencies?
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Not mentioned in the summary is a useful open source library to convert GPIO button presses to USB keyboard commands for the emulators. It uses minimal system resources, which is always good when working with the Raspberry Pi. You should be able to easily modify it to support more than the joystick and two buttons. https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame
This kind of response was certainly expected, thank you for the feedback though!
We built this because we thought that we could help people start quickly to get up and running with programs to blink LED's with their Raspberry Pi, or read temperatures with sensors attached to the GPIO pins (oh, and learn a little python, ruby or what have you, in the process!). We want it to be the easiest editing environment to use and setup on the Raspberry PI (low barrier to entry). We haven't built the guided experience yet, but you can kind of see which area of programming we're focusing on by looking at the following github repository:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code
Also, you have to start somewhere with someone just starting out in this quite complex, and layered environment. What better way than to have an editor that is pre-loaded with some basic scripts that will blink an LED, or read temperature and humidity off a sensor breakout, on their Raspberry Pi with little effort in an environment they're already comfortable with (a browser)?
Sure, they could start by first learning basic unix command line, then their editor of choice, and git, and python, and then interfacing with the RPi's GPIO pins, and on and on. We're just trying to remove some of these barriers.
An expert developer with loads of experience may not need this editor (but it is pretty convenient to just plug the pi into an ethernet port, and start hacking away in your browser...). But for someone that isn't sure how to navigate directories in a command line environment...well, this might help them out a bit (we even include a pretty powerful terminal emulator that may help them learn this!).
We're hoping to keep adding more advanced features as we go. We're releasing quite early in order to gather feedback to make it better suited for more people earlier in the process.
And yet Apple's competitors are having a difficult time matching the price of the iPad, and the Macbook Air (with comparable quality). Maybe they're just a much more efficient company? Maybe it's a better run business to generate higher profits than their competitors? Nah, has to be 'fanbois' giving away their money...
Depends on your definition of "automatically". From what I hear, there is this little prerequisite called "internet access".
If I had to take a guess, I'd imagine Google has already thought of this obvious issue. In fact, I bet Google Gears would fit in quite nicely in the Chrome OS. It seems to work well enough for offline access for a few of their apps already.
Let's further assume slashdot drove 2 million unique's to the article.
Ha! You forget that we pride ourselves in not reading the articles.
I even prefer using a simple greasemonkey script to remove the links in the summary to prevent clicking temptation.
If you computer at home freezes, you hit reset. Trying pushing the reset button on a Mars rover--let me know how that works out for you.
Actually, in the article, he basically stated that they essentially do have a reset button. The software pings the hardware every 64 seconds. If the hardware doesn't receive the ping on time, it resets the software to potentially resolve the error/lockup.
Now in the event that that doesn't work, we have a whole second set of avionics onboard. So the hardware will try to boot to the same side, and if the same side doesn't come up and start stroking the watch-stop timer, then it will swap to the other side and boot the first side.
The problem is that cable tv was originally introduced as a completely different product than was advertised to everyone, including the government. It was supposed to be commercial free, and much more consumer friendly.
The problem with not having net neutrality is that even though there isn't a true monopoly it seems that the big ISP's work together to make more money, and that doesn't benefit the consumer.
As a consumer, why would you want it so you have to pay more, and have a nickel-and-dime service. We are already paying surcharges and fees for things that shouldn't have a fee or surcharge (note: Verizon and Cingular are famous for this).
Sometimes legislation, although unfortunate, is required to protect the consumers from being unfairly treated. The ISP's are already making money from you, and also making money from the websites that you go to. They are trying to double, and triple charge everyone to pad their pockets.
This happened to me with 10 domains. They held me hostage unless I paid some ridiculous amount.
They claimed we were spamming AOL domains, and we were not! It was a third party. They wouldn't even send me a copy of the spam emails. They would not listen to reason, or anything. It was the worst feeling being held hostage like that.
I didn't have lawyers to help me (couldn't afford them). You were lucky.
Godaddy is a scam, and an extortionist. I hope this story spreads all over the internet.
Wow, just mentioning the word ipod gets us modded +4 Insightful now!
I guess it is more popular than beer...
That's great that they are going for the gen x'ers, but once you can get a console in the hands of a college student, or kid, they will buy games with every single penny they have.
In college I would spend my entire months worth of money on video games, and struggle on crappy food.
When I was a kid, games were the only thing I ever wanted for gifts.
There are a lot of people aged kid to college student with money earmarked just for this type of thing.
Not only that, but locating the lines with a locator is not exactly a science. Some guy walks around with a wand (locator) and tries to find it, while also looking at maps. They are wrong way too many of the times.
One summer in high school I worked for a contractor that was burying telephone lines, and fiber to compete with Qwest in a smallish town. About once a week we would either hit, or get dangerously close to a gas/powerline/cable/telephone line due to the locators not marking them right. We hand dug to find the lines at every intersection we crossed them at. If we couldnt' find the line we would have a certain range we had to open up around the marker (I think it was 5 feet by 5 feet from OSHA) before we could cross that line.
I personally pounded a ground rod (read: highly conductive rod that all the junction boxes are grounded to) into a 3-phase electrical wire. I single handedly shut the power down in half the town for the whole day because the guy that located the wire was about 6-8 feet off to the west. It was so dry that summer that instead of electricuting (sp?) me the electricity from breaking the wire with the ground rod went down into the ground instead of up to myself. The electric co-op guys came over and said I had a 99.9 percent chance of gettting electricuted. I quit the job the next day. It wasn't worth the risk.
These guys would put backhoes into pressurized gas lines all the time. I always respected the backhoe guys. They had to dig in some pretty risky situations.
I like TV; but not this much.
This is in obsession/OCD territory.
Is this all set up in your Mom's basement? Sounds sweet...
hahahahaha
(omg)
hahahahahaha
Dude, you post this ridiculous mess of a message every time a linux story is submitted.
Note to author:
Please get a grip man, and enter a neat place called reality.
Thank you.
1 tbsp of crazy
1 ounce of nuts
4 cups of pure genius
1/2 tsp of wit
5 gallons of caffeine*
*Your product of choice.
I agree, what an awesome display of guts.
:)
Steve Jobs is my idol.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own a single Apple product.
This makes you wonder what the world would be like if Microsoft played fairly.
I think it might be for the better, but Apple seems to have a little bit of a monopolistic practice in their sleeves also (not letting any other mp3 devices play with iTunes, and iPods only working on iTunes).
In the same respect: If you were never able to use your computer, except when the power was off (I know, sounds ridiculous, but so does the parent); would you even bother to keep it up and running in case of emergencies?
You are very short-sighted.
Who will want to keep their Ham systems operational when they can't use it except when the power is out?
The question remains though...What is the range on these systems?
Powerlines where never designed with having broadband traffic travel through them. They are highly inefficient.
By the time the signals get to your house in the boondocks the signal must have degraded significantly.
Once again, Powerlines were never, ever designed with this use in mind. They are terribly inefficient.
It's kind of sad that these companies have so little respect for the Ham Radio operators.
With all of the evidence showing the damage that the broadband over powerlines causes, this is kind of sad...
Is someone tooting their own horn? Or is this really the best software for A/V production?
Well, I could imagine why it wouldn't be very high in Google's listings. :)
Isn't Ubuntu, using Synaptic, pretty much click n run too?
What makes Linspire's click n run that much better?
I do like trying all these new flavors of Linux, it is quite fun, to say the least!
Sure, there may be 80 half-assed games.
Take a look at the reviews on IGN.
http://psp.ign.com/reviews/
I don't see too many decent games in there.
Considering most people do shop at Best Buy for their games, along with Amazon; I'm not impressed with their selection.
Admit it, most of the PSP games out right now are just rehashed PS2 games that are not designed for handheld play...