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New Raspberry pi Zero 2 announced !
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Posted on 10/28/2021 1:27:32 PM PDT by algore

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To: algore

Just to add that their ability to design custom SoC packages is becoming a real competency and pays dividends as we see in the Zero 2, where the SoC was made to fit in the constraints of the PoP ram packaging scheme. Pretty slick.


21 posted on 10/28/2021 2:43:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: FlipWilson
There is a processor inside every uSD card that not only is more powerful than the Apollo spacecraft, it is more powerful than the System 370 mainframes they used on the ground to control the mission.

The cpu that handles memory on an SD card is typically a 100mhz 32bit ARM.

You can see the ARM controller at the upper right in this image... it's mounted as a COB or chip-on-board.

22 posted on 10/28/2021 2:45:08 PM PDT by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: Rebelbase

6. Great! Love Apple Pie and Raspberry Pi together.


23 posted on 10/28/2021 2:55:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: algore

Is it Windows 11 certified? If so forget it.


24 posted on 10/28/2021 2:59:01 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: algore

I got a rasberry pi 400 and have a ball with it. still exploring everything i can do


25 posted on 10/28/2021 3:05:50 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Billthedrill
Wow! Computer Shopper magazine.

Hadn't thought of that for...decades... Loved it!

Thanks

26 posted on 10/28/2021 3:48:12 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (I use an euphemism for "Let's Go Brandon!". It's F*** Joe Biden! )
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To: nascarnation

I have a few slide rules. I pull them out once in a while.

with the exponential technology increase we have had since the 60’s and the same increase in the available money supply

It almost makes one wonder if humans have ever really walked on the moon and came back to talk about it.


27 posted on 10/28/2021 3:51:39 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: algore

I was hoping for an upgrade to the Pi 4 but an able $15 unit is cool and good for the kids. I’m wanting to make a Home Media Center from a Pi 4 or Pi 400 which is a Pi 4 built into a keyboard and we usually end up using a wireless USB keyboard anyway for a firestick or the nVidia Shield TV. The stick as outdated and the Shield went capoot so I’m wanting to replace them with something that has zero preinstalled app crapp and isn’t a product of BigTech.


28 posted on 10/28/2021 4:02:36 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: Yo-Yo
... I remember my first computer, an Amiga 500, had a 7.16 MHz clock

Mine (first) was one of the original IMB PCs. It's clock ran at 4.77 Mhz. (It cost just over $3000) - (This was in 1981, mind you, when I was a Junior in High school.)
I even shelled out the extra dollars for a SECOND 360K Full height 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive! And as a Christmas gift for my little brother a few years later I bought him a Commodore VIC - 20.

And today I am typing this post on a Kamrui Quad-Core Celeron
with 8GB of RAM and 256GB Solid State Disk that cost me $277.

Time and technology marches on....

29 posted on 10/28/2021 4:22:30 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: carriage_hill

Thankfully, no Microsoft will work. This is a big tech free zone.


30 posted on 10/28/2021 5:07:17 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

So, WHAT works on it?


31 posted on 10/28/2021 5:10:15 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: George from New England
A few years into those Amigas an outfit called Newtek came out with the video toaster.

NewTek is still around, and still making PC-based production switchers/streamers. Instead of the Video Toaster, they're now called Tricaster.

And of course, NewTek hired "Booth Babe" Kiki Stockhammer to be their spokesperson at the NAB, and even had a wipe effect of her silhouette.


32 posted on 10/28/2021 5:13:36 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: carriage_hill

I’ve read the article 2x, watched the yt video and STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS...


33 posted on 10/28/2021 5:29:21 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

It is something you might not personally need, but if you got the kit, it might be a great holiday gift for some nerdy relative


34 posted on 10/28/2021 7:40:19 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: carriage_hill
I’ve read the article 2x, watched the yt video and STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS...

From Wikipedia -

The Raspberry Pi is a series of single-board computers. They are low-cost, high-performance and the size of a credit card. The Raspberry Pi was developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Foundation's goal is to "advance the education of adults and children, particularly in the field of computers, computer science and related subjects."[1] Many people have used Raspberry Pis to make things like cameras, video game consoles, robots, web servers and media centres.

35 posted on 10/28/2021 7:59:57 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: carriage_hill

Raspberry pi are single board computers that people use for all kinds of little DIY side projects.

Pretty much all Raspberrys run Linux. BSD is also possible. Windows is typically viewed as too restrictive.

Personal heart rate monitors, video game emulators, bike mounted RPM meter, various electronic/voltage reading, facial recognition projects, data servers and game servers and print servers and much more. They are also used as main desktops.

https://itsfoss.com/raspberry-pi-projects/


36 posted on 10/29/2021 3:49:39 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Thanks for the clarification. I’ll just keep Win-7 Pro x64 purring along on both desktops.


37 posted on 10/30/2021 4:54:39 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Just curious - I genuinely want to know and not trying to be provocative - why isn’t there much interest in getting off of big tech MS with your existing hardware? Do you have a particular application or use case that keeps you in place?


38 posted on 10/30/2021 8:00:08 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I have a LOT of “legacy software” that won’t run on Linux, Win-8-10-11 etc, so I am staying with Win-7 Pro x64; it works just fine in these 2 commercial/industrial HP boxes.


39 posted on 10/30/2021 12:48:48 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
... STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS...

The little red box next to the coffee mug is the Raspberry pi computer. Itty bitty thing, ain't it?


40 posted on 11/04/2021 4:40:27 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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