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$25 super-ultra-portable "Raspberry Pi" computer to be used to teach programming to children

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  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    Someone on the Raspberry Pi forums mentioned running a MAME box off one of these.
    I'm totally making a cocktail table unit with this.
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    I would love to hack together some sort of pocket computer device out of one of these.
    Something like this:
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    Which we thought were going to be the future of computing one day.
    Hell you could just use it as a super cheap HTPC.
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    Actually, it's perfect for Personal Area Networking.

    Finally, we can all have Gargoyle Rigs.
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    Aw shit, these could be great for the end of the world if we need to set up an underground interwebs.
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    Holy shit, you guys. Fuck waiting till the end of the world. At $25 a pop, you could buy 200 of these for $500. For another $500, you could get USB WiFi cards for every single one of them. For another ~$1000, you could get deep-cycle batteries and solar panels for all of them. Then, you could mount them to telephone poles and build a huge mesh network, all for $2000. For $10000, you could probably build a mesh the size of downtown New York.
  • ColdguyColdguy
    Holy shit, you guys. Fuck waiting till the end of the world. At $25 a pop, you could buy 200 of these for $500. For another $500, you could get USB WiFi cards for every single one of them. For another ~$1000, you could get deep-cycle batteries and solar panels for all of them. Then, you could mount them to telephone poles and build a huge mesh network, all for $2000. For $10000, you could probably build a mesh the size of downtown New York.
    I smell an interesting geek project here...
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    We need to start a wiki.
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    edited August 2011
    We need to start our own internetz.
    edit: Fuck. Make cantennas with the usb wifi cards for them. You could have a pretty decent network, even without the more expensive shit WUB was talking about.
    Post edited by ninjarabbi on
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    Yeah, but the more expensive shit would make it almost entirely autonomous. Even without a connection to the mains, with solar panels and batteries,you could maintain the mesh in a power outage as long as one node had a landline connection to the Internet. Awwwww yeah.
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    True, but even without that, you could hook it up to your own generators or Main solar panels. Hell, you could use old satellite dishes to make long range line-of-site connections with these things.

    Aw shit. What if we just Built a bunch of units like WUB was talking about and just dropped a shit-ton of them on Cuba, or North Korea?
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    Oh god, weaponized internet.
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    And some could have cell transmitters connected, so we could drop a bunch of cheap phones and some cheap laptops built out of these with them. Talk about a way to get a country to revolt against its government. THE INTERNET IS COMING FOR YOU KIM JONG IL.
  • AndrewAndrew
    I can't tell you how bad I want a handful of these.
  • DaikunDaikun
    It took long enough, but Pi 2 is out.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    And it's gonna get Windows 10!
  • NeitoNeito
    Gonna see how it runs, but it's certainly going to be a very easy base for cheap HTPCs. (Well, moreso than the original, at least).
  • SuperPichuSuperPichu
    edited February 2015
    If they get a steam build for this thing it would be amazing for the In-Home Streaming
    Post edited by SuperPichu on
  • sK0pesK0pe
    SuperPichu said:

    If they get a steam build for this thing it would be amazing for the In-Home Streaming

    If it can run Windows 10 and Steam was shown working in Windows 10, it's safe to say this is your Steam streaming box.

  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Steam may have been shown running on Windows 10, but that doesn't mean it'll run on the new raspi. It would have to be compiled to run on ARM, not just x86.
  • sK0pesK0pe
    Victor Frost said:

    Steam may have been shown running on Windows 10, but that doesn't mean it'll run on the new raspi. It would have to be compiled to run on ARM, not just x86.

    I didn't realise it was on an ARM chip whoops.
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