A new microcomputer will be shipping next year The MIPS Creator CI20 costing $65 People seem quite impressed by it. http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/mips-creator-ci20-development-board-now-available Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Have you ever used such a development board? The Raspberry pi is the best known one. If so, what did you use it for?
I have a Pi. I use it for development (I2C driver testing and hosting a serial port VT100 terminal) and work (using it as a second screen to display documents/websites.) It's a good backup for a PC since so many things are available via browser nowadays,
Nope. You can run it headless by using terminal mode (i.e. using a serial port on your PC) but it won't fit in any common card slots.
I was cruising a Radio Shack last week. Everything was 30 to 70% off. Saw something called a Beaglebone Black. I tried an Arduino for a project a couple of years ago. Total fail! The programming was a bitch. I got this running Linus and doing digital output last night. The quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 is shipping if it is not Out of Stock. The Beaglebone will work but I will upgrade to the Pi 2 soon. Who needs desktops except for bloated software? LOL psik
Along with stuff I roll from scratch, I use pi's and arudinos (since someone else makes them and they'll be around for awhile). Since pi's run full linux and don't even slow down running X windows, why use a pi for what an arduino can do? Except for code you got already written, it's more or less the same language to actually program either, if you're a "real" programmer - C, or C++. Python is a fractal of bad design...;~). I do use perl as duct-tape on pi's sometimes. Since I'm already carrying hundreds of megs of ram for stupid stuff like a full blown operating system that destroys time-determinism by being pre-emptive, why not? It's a case of horses for courses. In fact, in my "LAN of things" projects, I'm using both for what they are good at, separately and together.
