[G0atmaster]

http://www.wimp.com/raspberrypi/

Discuss.

[Nuke]

it can run quake 3, nuff said, do want.

it will also come in handy for those projects where an arduino is just not fast enough.

[S-99]

It's ability to play watchable hi-def content should be something that i find needs to be tested before batting an eye at it. I'd get one just to make it one hell of a low powered server. You could probably make a get up that turns that thing into a wearable computer.

[Bobboau]

scale model cluster.
quadrotor drone.
portable VPN.
home automation.

[BlueFlames]

I can't be the only person thinking of the sales pitch, "Raspberry Pi - Bringing the Beowulf Cluster to the home user."  With a budget for a computer of $875 to $1750, you could get twenty-five to fifty Raspberry Pis and build your own supercomputer.  Tell me that's not f'n awesome.  Go on.  Try.

[achtung]

Already on the waiting list.

[G0atmaster]

I'll try to cite the story later (on my phone at the moment), but I read a story about The Pirate Bay using these things in drone fliers over international waters, connected via wifi to host their servers. Just to make it more difficult to raid.

I also read that, because these are easily hideable, the applications for, say, helping oppressed peoples are endless.

[pecenipicek]

i will admit that this looks ****ing awesome and has my interest piqued

[LHN91]

Mine as well. I can think of several things this would be brilliant for.

[Dark Hunter]

Looks awesome. I want one.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

I can't be the only person thinking of the sales pitch, "Raspberry Pi - Bringing the Beowulf Cluster to the home user."  With a budget for a computer of $875 to $1750, you could get twenty-five to fifty Raspberry Pis and build your own supercomputer.  Tell me that's not f'n awesome.  Go on.  Try.

The important question is:

Can it run Crysis? 

[Nuke]

lets see, it has:

cpu: 700mhz arm11
memory: 256mb (shared video)
gpu: Broadcom VideoCore IV (supports opengl es, 1080p, and h.264/mpeg4 decoder)
video ports: hdmi/composite/dsi
audio ports: hdmi/3.5 jack
usb: 1 port on the a model, 2 on the b model
storage: 1 sd/mmc/sdio slot
network: 10/100 ethernet on the b model only
low level interfaces: 8x gpio, 1 uart, 1 i2c bus, 1 spi bus with 2 select lines, gnd, 3.3v and 5v power buses
power: 500ma/2.5w for the a model and 700ma/3.5w for the b model, power is sourced from microusb or gpio header
size: 85.6mm x 53.98mm
supported operating systems: debian gnu/linux, fedora, arch linux, and risc os

its not a lot but its still pretty powerful for its size. hardware hackers will love the gpio header, which will make it easy to integrate into hardware projects, like using it for quad copters or cnc machine controllers. portable applications seem very possible, its not hard to build a power supply, a couple lithium cells and an lm7805 regulator, battery control chip (for pussies who dont want their batteries exploding) some filter caps and other components. it probably wont be very useful as a desktop, media server client would be a good application, or, with a usb hard drive, a lightweight file server. i guess it would be ok for some older games (probably use it as an open source console if you code it bare metal with a non multitasking game-oriented os). so lots of possibilities here.

[Topgun]

do want.

[S-99]

I'll try to cite the story later (on my phone at the moment), but I read a story about The Pirate Bay using these things in drone fliers over international waters, connected via wifi to host their servers. Just to make it more difficult to raid.

I also read that, because these are easily hideable, the applications for, say, helping oppressed peoples are endless.

You mean to say what the pirate bay was purportedly planning to do. It just may be fud. However would be great for oppressive regimes citizens to have these.

The one big thing i see like with netbooks becoming popular with the eeepc. That linux got there first, and microsoft will have a difficult time adapting to it. Example: microsoft had to ressurect xp for netbook hardware since vista ran too slow on it (linux beat microsoft to the chase).

So linux again beats microsoft to the chase. It's not about the superiority of linux i'm paying attention. But, mainly how pretty close to non-adaptable microsoft is. I don't see microsoft being able to do much if anything about trying to get onto raspberrypi if they're even interested. If they are interested, what do they do next? Windows phone 7 for raspberrypi?

[Nuke]

its not like ms doesnt have an arm operating system, unfortunately its a ****ty phone os and not really a general purpose arm os. and i doubt you could buy a copy that can be installed on whatever arm device you have. if ms got smart they would rebrand windows phone for general arm devices like this, and they could actually make a buck.

thing ive really not liked about arm devices is how closed the hardware tends to be. you have to buy a phone to get a decent processor, and the cell contract that goes with it. i have nothing against the cpu architecture itself. and its nice to see open arm system like this. besides i wanted to start dipping into arm processors for my hardware projects, and this makes an excellent dev board.

[Topgun]

its not like ms doesnt have an arm operating system, unfortunately its a ****ty phone os and not really a general purpose arm os. and i doubt you could buy a copy that can be installed on whatever arm device you have. if ms got smart they would rebrand windows phone for general arm devices like this, and they could actually make a buck.

thing ive really not liked about arm devices is how closed the hardware tends to be. you have to buy a phone to get a decent processor, and the cell contract that goes with it. i have nothing against the cpu architecture itself. and its nice to see open arm system like this. besides i wanted to start dipping into arm processors for my hardware projects, and this makes an excellent dev board.

you can install pretty much any arm linux on it.

[Nuke]

its not like ms doesnt have an arm operating system, unfortunately its a ****ty phone os and not really a general purpose arm os. and i doubt you could buy a copy that can be installed on whatever arm device you have. if ms got smart they would rebrand windows phone for general arm devices like this, and they could actually make a buck.

thing ive really not liked about arm devices is how closed the hardware tends to be. you have to buy a phone to get a decent processor, and the cell contract that goes with it. i have nothing against the cpu architecture itself. and its nice to see open arm system like this. besides i wanted to start dipping into arm processors for my hardware projects, and this makes an excellent dev board.

you can install pretty much any arm linux on it.

i ran linux on an old pda back in the day. unfortunately i was so pissed off at not being able to uninstall linux that i threw the thing across the room and it broke. its ok, i stole it from a bum anyway.

il probibly run riscos just to be a dick
besides im curious if you could play arc elite natively on the thing.