It's a little more useful than a normal Linux system. It's small, low power ie. Battery/solar operable, a standardised platform and has accessable gpio. As such it's a fixed target driver-wise, and you can interface Frank with the outside world easily eg. UAV design - LOGO turtle on steroids. Lastly, it's unbrickable, you can just swap sd cards to change oses so making os experimentation more likely.
Cheers On Feb 7, 2012 11:14 AM, "Reuben Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 February 2012 10:58, Ryan Mitchley <[email protected]> wrote: > > This may not be news to list subscribers, but wouldn't the Raspberry Pi > make > > a great target for Frank etc. ? -> > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs > > No worse or better than any other system; the point is precisely that > it's a pretty standard Linux system (if rather low-powered). Why do > you think specifically it's a good target? If Frank builds on GNU, it > should be straightforward to build it for R-Pi… > > (I think Raspberry Pi, other than its unfortunate reliance on non-free > software, is an excellent thing; I know Eben Upton, who is behind it, > and was fortunate enough to see his first tiny computer prototype some > years ago. I'm very excited about its aim of getting more children > interested in programming. I'm just not sure what the connection is > here, other than the obvious one of new, simpler models of programming > and children.) > > > The Model A / B naming brings up memories of my own childhood computing > > introduction on the BBC Model B > > That's entirely intentional, right down to the model A being the one > very few people will probably buy! > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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