Thanks Wayne, this is interesting to hear of as an ex BBC Micro boy I'm a
fan of the idea J

 

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Merricks
Sent: Sunday, 15 January 2012 1:09 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [RDD] OT: Raspberry Pi

 

Hi all,

Forgive me as this is almost completely off topic but given the background
of some people I've seen around this list for the year or so I've been
lurking I figured this might be of interest.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

The summary of the above is an ARM powered SOC, with USB, SD Card, HDMI,
RCA, 3.5mm Audio Out and GPIO pins all in a package about the same size as a
bulky USB memory stick.  The best part about this thing, $35 if you want the
model with a network port on it.

It is due to finish its first production run of 10,000 units at the end of
January with a limit of 1 per customer.  I can think of lots of things to
use this for and I'm guessing the first 10k units will sell out near
instantly given the interest surrounding it however what about a Rivendell
system on one of these things?

It supports Fedora and some others "out of the box", add yourself a USB
sound card and suddenly it looks quite interesting?  Obviously I have no
idea how difficult getting Rivendell working on one of these would be.

Either way its a project produced by a charity in the UK with the noble aim
of getting every kid a computer to rekindle the late 70s early 80s era of
bedroom programmers.  It seemed like a fascinating project to share here
anyway, apologies if this isn't relevant to you.

Regards,

Wayne

(Edit: Apologies if this gets double posted, accidentally sent this to
riv-dev-bounces the first time)

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