"Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe "democratise"?) production through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to start making them locally."
For what I saw, the circuitry is not opened, or is it? I fear that, unfortunately, I didn't see it anywhere so it seems they haven't done that, although they are surely willing to disseminate the usage of technology. And I know wat you mean and that is why I hope something like that happens. And, as I was saying, the arduino works like that and some people in brazil can spend around less than 20$ in the parts needed to build it. And so I also mentioned about this possibility of a newer version of the arduino made up with an ARM processor. It seems it will be not only open hardware, but capable of being both a computer and an arduino. I look forward to that. Cheers 2012/9/16 Andy Farnell <[email protected]> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 05:47:22PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > > Thanks a lot Andy, that was really informative. > > > > So I see there's no point at all comparing this "super" Pi rack to > general > > computers, and that you can't run one Pd having it being served by 64 of > > these. > > > > cheers > > Actually, there's a lot of value in these arrays for DSP work, at least > particular > kinds of creative DSP work, because what you have is effectively a giant > modular synth. Data flow is a good candidate, because the work is > usually a unidirectional flow of data frames through the system. > > On another note, I was pondering your comment on the economics of > the Pi in Brazil that you replied to Charles. > > Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation > are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe "democratise"?) production > through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to > start making them locally. I know Brazil can't compete with > China on economies of scale right now, but nontheless the > opportunity is there at least without any trade barries based on > intellectual property nonsense. Its long past time we had a standard > international unit of computing that any 10 year old kid can grab and > know the other 9 billion people on the planet have access to. > > best > Andy >
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