On 12/10/2016 13:56, Daniel Campbell wrote: > My birthday's coming up in 10 days and my SO and others are wanting to > know what to get me for my birthday. I'm slowly growing tired of trying > to keep my desktop Gentoo machine lightweight and "clean", so it'd be > fun to hack on a little computer that I could possibly DIY a case or > other arrangement for. Maybe a file/web server, or a "freetoo" machine > where I can experiment with being rigidly FSF-APPROVED or other fun > shenanigans. > > I've looked around at the Raspberry Pi 3, the Pocket CHIP (I also have > PICO-8 and am hacking something for it), the Pi Zero, and have heard > about the Beaglebone and Arduino, though isn't the latter meant for more > interactive or robotic thing due to the large array of IO pins? > > If I had the right tools or gadgets, creating my own UMPC would be > really fun. > > At a minimum, I would prefer HDMI instead of composite or VGA, though it > could be headless and I just use SSH or an Adafruit LCD. > > Any opinions or use cases and stories would be much appreciated. I would > prefer running Gentoo on it, but Debian, Mint, or Slackware would be > tolerable. >
Those devices are dirt cheap, ask for one of each :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
