Is that the kind you find at the second hand store?

Looks neat. I'm not really sure what you'd use these things for though.

DjangoStonereaver: I'll be springing for the $35 model when its available.

Same here; it'll make an interesting thing to play with.

BurnShrike: Looks neat. I'm not really sure what you'd use these things for though.

By itself, not much. The idea is that this is something cheap, small, and reasonably powerful: something that could perhaps be incorporated into other projects as a controller. Sort of like Arduino, but from the looks of it this isn't as easy to incorporate new hardware into; perhaps later versions will fix that.

BurnShrike: Looks neat. I'm not really sure what you'd use these things for though.

education, robotics, and other hobbyist stuff. mostly education for the childrens tho.

HeartBurnKid: DjangoStonereaver: I'll be springing for the $35 model when its available.

Same here; it'll make an interesting thing to play with.

If this can manage XBMC @ 1080p (the devs are already porting) I'll finally get to rescue my main gaming rig from the banality of running Thomas the Tank Engine videos. :)

Raspberry Pi - Quake 3 demo

Yeah I definitely want to test these suckers out.

Dorf11: HeartBurnKid: DjangoStonereaver: I'll be springing for the $35 model when its available.

Same here; it'll make an interesting thing to play with.

If this can manage XBMC @ 1080p (the devs are already porting) I'll finally get to rescue my main gaming rig from the banality of running Thomas the Tank Engine videos. :)

I was actually thinking something similar; this + ICS = instant Google TV.

I'm wanting one for robotics... the B version - I want to eventually cluster. And the fact that the Gertboard is coming helps.

There's only one man who would dare give me the Raspberry.....

Like a previous poster said... its sort of like Arduino, in that it makes hardware accessible to hobbyists. That being said, I see this COUPLED with an Arduino as full of Win. You could put the USB interface as a controller to something the Arduino is doing. Full TCP Stack, SSH from the Linux distro running on the Rasberry. Actually this could make some hobbyist stuff more secure in that you instead of a TCP stack that is build without security in mind (just the ability to give the arduino something to communicate with) It would allow the programmer to interface through SSH etc.

Damn

Just thinking about this is making me hot. TMI?

But can they make a Raspberry Swirl?

Millennium: By itself, not much. The idea is that this is something cheap, small, and reasonably powerful: something that could perhaps be incorporated into other projects as a controller. Sort of like Arduino, but from the looks of it this isn't as easy to incorporate new hardware into; perhaps later versions will fix that.

To be honest, I think Arduinos are more likely to inspire kids because you can do physical things with them,

I've got a lot of respect for Braben. He wrote goddamn Elite. And I'm with him on sorting out what's being taught in schools (which is nothing more than teaching kids how to be lusers). But abstraction is a reality to almost everyone. No-one is going to write assembler on this, a few people might write C, but a lot of people will code in something like Ruby or Python, and that's just fine.

farkeruk: Millennium: By itself, not much. The idea is that this is something cheap, small, and reasonably powerful: something that could perhaps be incorporated into other projects as a controller. Sort of like Arduino, but from the looks of it this isn't as easy to incorporate new hardware into; perhaps later versions will fix that.

To be honest, I think Arduinos are more likely to inspire kids because you can do physical things with them,

I've got a lot of respect for Braben. He wrote goddamn Elite. And I'm with him on sorting out what's being taught in schools (which is nothing more than teaching kids how to be lusers). But abstraction is a reality to almost everyone. No-one is going to write assembler on this, a few people might write C, but a lot of people will code in something like Ruby or Python, and that's just fine.

It's an ARM chip. It's the same thing that's in your phone. You don't need to write assembler; damn near anything can compile to ARM.

And this is supposed to be for programmers, not roboticists. In that regard, I think it has a shot; it could inspire kids of today the same way my Commodore 64 I got when I was a kid inspired me.

Though this could be used as a cheap HTPC replacement, reducing the costs for the One Laptop/Tablet Per Child, or used for tinkering and development (since it is a mobile processor, Qt developers have gotten dibs on it free gratis). One thing that concerns me is that it is a Brodcom chip and therefore it uses a closed source binary blob which meas no custom bios here. Still, for for an embedded board for about $35, is not too bad.

/I'll wait to see if they come out with 10/100/1000 Ethernet and usb 3.0 model
//Already considering making a Altoids can case for it if I get one.

I'm interested in the rasberry pi as a usb sensor platform. I think it'd be great with an arduino as well.

However, there was a guy on slashdot that had looked into the whole chip supply chain. He'd found a supplier that would provide a completely open source modern ARM chip supplier. He thought he could have something similar to the rasberry pi at a slightly lower cost and more power.

Ultimately, I really like the idea of computers for trying things such as rasberry pi's or aws free instances. You aren't going to do any work, but you can learn a huge amount for 30 bucks a tv, and a usb keyboard.