My idea for them is to use at least one as a cheap XBMC box.
Then another one for maybe heating control, but this will have to wait until the GPIO board becomes available.
Also been looking at programming options and narrowed it down to Gambas and or Visual TCL. At least with TCL its easy to get it to run on any platform.
I agree with what the Raspberry Pi foundation are trying to do. As I have noticed a complete lack of decent computer skills from many people who supposedly did technical degrees.
On my HND electronics course we actually had to design and build the computer from scratch, this included design the PCB as well, then get it to run programs. Out of the 25 in the class mine and four others worked first time.
Also I guess the computers available at the time didn't have much in the way of off the shelf software. So you had to write your own. I have written several games for the commodore PET one was quite a hit at school.
Even the BBC micro encouraged tinkering, I remember tinkering around with the analogue port on it and producing eye catching sound to graphics type displays.
But I do feel that the main market will be from us hobbyists rather than schools. Unless they can come up with a complete training package for schools.
Then another one for maybe heating control, but this will have to wait until the GPIO board becomes available.
Also been looking at programming options and narrowed it down to Gambas and or Visual TCL. At least with TCL its easy to get it to run on any platform.
I agree with what the Raspberry Pi foundation are trying to do. As I have noticed a complete lack of decent computer skills from many people who supposedly did technical degrees.
On my HND electronics course we actually had to design and build the computer from scratch, this included design the PCB as well, then get it to run programs. Out of the 25 in the class mine and four others worked first time.
Also I guess the computers available at the time didn't have much in the way of off the shelf software. So you had to write your own. I have written several games for the commodore PET one was quite a hit at school.
Even the BBC micro encouraged tinkering, I remember tinkering around with the analogue port on it and producing eye catching sound to graphics type displays.
But I do feel that the main market will be from us hobbyists rather than schools. Unless they can come up with a complete training package for schools.
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