Posted on 01/04/2016 12:36:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“Why?”
35 years ago I used a home computer that cost $100 in kit form. 1KB RAM. Audio cassette data storage. Home TV for a screen.
Now for $5 you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero, operating capabilities in the vicinity of the Cray 2 & iPad 2, using your home TV for a screen (and whatever stray keyboard & mouse & SD card you can find lying around unused).
100x faster.
2700x more pixels.
1,000,000x more memory.
1/20th the price.
That’s cool.
Any idea where to pick up the copy of Magpi?
Sounds like the mighty Sinclair ZX-81!
Loved that little Z80 beast!
That is cool.
Why is the thread only for “techies”? I’m no “techie” and I find the subject fascinating. I can see all kinds of uses for this stuff- especially for SHTF times.
follow-up:
this would be the camera. it will support 720p60 ... more then enough for vision.
so... $35 per 'eye'. then i'd add a third board for 'the brain'
link: $50 from intel (performance comparison: link)
combined, it would be pretty small, have binocular vision, and be able to control other on-board devices easily
I just got my first PI 2 for Christmas. I have it set up as a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). It collects data from temperature and humidity sensors (driven by Arduino) in the attic and crawlspace. This replaces a Virtual Machine I had running on my Windows 10 box.
Can’t wait to get my hands on the $5 version.
ZX-80, actually. Programmed that thing to the limits, which were extremely narrow. Learned a lot trying to cram program, OS, and video into just 1024 bytes. Even built a sound card for it, playing music the very hard way.
Then you’re a techie (broadly defined for friendly purposes).
Create a Smart Beer Fridge with a Raspberry Pi
http://makezine.com/projects/create-raspberry-pi-smart-beer-fridge/
Make a case for it out of Legos!
RE: Can I get some Java with the Raspberry Pi?
Absolutely.
See here:
http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/java-apps-on-the-raspberry-pi/240155309
TITLE: Java Apps on the Raspberry Pi
There is in fact, an Open Source project to provide a friendly object-oriented I/O API and implementation libraries for Java Programmers to access the full I/O capabilities of the Raspberry Pi platform. This project abstracts the low-level native integration and interrupt monitoring to enable Java programmers to focus on implementing their application business logic.
See here:
Yeah I am going to have to pick myself up a couple of them to tinker around with . My husband is so going to kill me because I just cleaned up the closet I keep my computer parts in . I can hear it now .... Do you really need more junk ? lol
That was actually my THIRD home computer, following COSMAC Elf in 1976 and a KIM-1 a couple of years later.
Sold the KIM on eBay for over $2k a couple of years ago. Although I've divested myself of a lot of other personal computer stuff in recent years, I certainly lucked out in picking the one that I thought might be worth a little $ someday!
I have a need for it. Currently, I have two 3D printers. I have to connect my Mac in order to not only create what I want to print, but to control the 3D printer. I can connect a SD card to the 3D printer to print from a stored object already created, but I find that problematic if anything goes wrong. The Raspberry Pi would allow me to cheaply dedicate a computer to each printer for all print tasks. If you use 3D printers, you would know they take hours to complete a print job. This would free up my regular computers for other use.
see also Ringing in 2016 with 64 open-spec, hacker friendly SBCs
I personally liked Beaglebone Black, but it's too expensive. Costs nothing compared to servo motors of course.
the Omega is exciting with its wifi capabilities
BFLR
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