I admit that I am a little naive on the Raspberry Pi. What is it? and what is all the excitement about? Regards, Jim > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [OT] Can anyone confirm Raspberry Pi shipping ? > From: John Ferrell > Date: Mon, March 05, 2012 1:04 pm > To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." >=20 >=20 > It seems to me that after you have the working prototype that it should=20 > not take long to build. PC boards, parts, assemble, Test (maybe?) > Not knowing instruction set, architecture, available software or=20 > intended additional documentation I think I ordered one with RS but I=20 > did not get anything in the way of a confirmation. Bare metal is fine=20 > with me if there is enough information about the interfacing details. If= =20 > it takes a year to sort it out I can accept that. In fact, the Project=20 > has such good intentions that if I just plain lose $50, I will be more=20 > concerned about the folks trying to put this together. >=20 > The price is like an Arduino with a lot more promise! >=20 > On 3/5/2012 12:11 PM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote: > > On 5/3/2012 5:59 PM, Tamas Rudnai wrote: > >> I have read few articles about this device but still not very clear wh= at > >> can you do with this? Only learning programming with some Logo style > >> language? Or can you browse the internet with it? Can you use/install = SkyPe > >> and OpenOffice on it? > > It is basically a big ARM chip (with video hardware), RAM, some > > boot-flash, and a memory card. It runs Linux, but probably not on par > > (speedwise) with your current desktop. AFAIK (and what interests me > > most) is that you can also use it bare-metal, as a low-cost processor > > board, using every language that can target ARM (uncluding all GCC > > variations). > > >=20 > --=20 > John Ferrell W8CCW > Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example= .. > Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) >=20 >=20 > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .