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Wizardskills said:
I'm sure I have seen videos of a powered USB hub being used on it. As for the wireless dongle, you will be completely at the mercy drivers that have been made for the dongle. I'm sure most of the common ones will be supported very quickly if not from the outset.
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Thats good then, yeah im sure someone will push out some drivers etc

hunts for SD cards! :P
 
Tefal said:
they do engineering and electronics courses at gcse now apparently so there's that if you prefer the hadware side of "IT".


but from speaking to people who've done it it's just what we used to do in physics but with more practical work.
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A level electronics is completely different. There is a large project involved which is great fun. Though you can't use pic which makes it even more challenging. Not enough people to offer it nationally though, lucky I had the chance to take it.
 
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Ok, I get the point of this device and will be buying one myself but....

I really think they're aiming a 3rd world product at a comparatively rich country and yeah I know it's a global launch but bare with me. When I was a lad (early 80's) and home computers were just being launched they were very expensive, I remember paying £129 for a 48K spectrum, £200 for a CBM 64 and £400 for a BBC B. and yet these were snapped up by eager young programmers. Youngsters started out programming demo's for various scenes and some went on to code games etc. And I'm sure this is the sort of thing that the RPi team have in mind.

Surely it would have been far better to produce a slightly better but backwardly compatible version for the UK and other richer nations and make the cheaper one available to poorer countries like Africa. Lets be honest who wouldn't pay £50 for a RPi with faster CPU, WiFi, 1GB, 16GB Built in storage etc. I also think it would be a good idea to work with and tie this devise with Ubuntu as it's by far the most popular distro with users new to Linux and it's well supported and very polished.

Just my opinions :)
 
pumaz said:
Surely it would have been far better to produce a slightly better but backwardly compatible version for the UK and other richer nations and make the cheaper one available to poorer countries like Africa. Lets be honest who wouldn't pay £50 for a RPi with faster CPU, WiFi, 1GB, 16GB Built in storage etc. I also think it would be a good idea to work with and tie this devise with Ubuntu as it's by far the most popular distro with users new to Linux and it's well supported and very polished.

Just my opinions :)
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That might be offered in a future generation should the launch go well and the product sells well. If there was just one feature you've listed that was available in the second generation then I'd like the WiFi (and perhaps Bluetooth). I think the WiFi addition would extend the capabilities the Raspberry Pi can achieve but the faster CPU, extra RAM and storage just improve on what it can already do.
 
Monkeynut said:
They don't think we're very bright. :(
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Well, about 90% of the posters in this thread have completely missed the point. (Which is understandable as the article in the OP doesnt really say much about the background or aims of the project)

I cant wait to get one (or however many we'll be allowed to buy) :D


Mp4 said:
Maybe robot wars might be more fun with one of these at its heart?
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That would be cool. No need for remote controls :eek:
 
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pumaz said:
Surely it would have been far better to produce a slightly better but backwardly compatible version for the UK and other richer nations and make the cheaper one available to poorer countries like Africa. Lets be honest who wouldn't pay £50 for a RPi with faster CPU, WiFi, 1GB, 16GB Built in storage etc. I also think it would be a good idea to work with and tie this devise with Ubuntu as it's by far the most popular distro with users new to Linux and it's well supported and very polished.

Just my opinions :)
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*I've not read the thread and only heard a little bit about the product.

I was under the impression that one of the aims of the device was to see what could be done with it. It's easy with our ever improving hardware to create sloppy code, but put a limit on the hardware and the developers have to think about the limitations and how to get the best from them. It's not just to get people programming, or teaching them to program, it's about getting them to think and maximise potential.

I have a game development book somewhere with an interesting interview with the developers of half life and how they had to overcome the restrictions of the limited graphics cards at the time. Do developers have that issue now with gfx cards with 1gb+ of ram?
 
Im hoping to get one of these, make a extremely small case, get a HDMI to VGA adapter if there is any, get a touchscreen monitor like 7inch and put it on my dashboard. Epic car pc! good for sitting waiting on things in your car
 
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