| Author |
Topic:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
[Locked] |
Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
Posts: 894
Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
They're here! 
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
...and they're getting hammered and I can't get either of the two sites you can buy them from to respond!  
-----signature-----
* First rule of a gun fight: Have a gun.
|
"Any sufficiently advanced idiocy is
indistinguishable from trolling." -- Arthur C Clarke
|
paulg_68
Posts: 2,469
Registered: 2009-7-27 18:45:54
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
So it's some kind of super crappy computer?
What are you going to use it for?
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
"Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48
"Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
the_great_ontex
Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts: 791
Registered: 2012-2-13 18:38:12
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
|
That's kinda cool.
It is like a cheapo motherboard+ram+everything else. Could make your own linux or android makeshift "tablet" of sort if you got more parts together
I was actually looking for these kind of parts yesterday and today to perhaps make a Windows 8 tablet. Hard to find parts though since they're usually to OEM only and requires most of the time buying in bulk of 1000s
|
Testerion
Posts: 549
Registered: 2001-12-28 03:07:47
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
Its basically creditcard sized HTPC that comes without case.
-----signature-----
|
BubbleDude
Title: Perma-N00b
Posts: 488
Registered: 2003-2-27 21:04:24
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
Wow it's a good thing I signed up for their NEWSLETTER so they could let me know WHEN THEY WERE LAUNCHING.
-----signature-----
"It's much easier to just bitch on the internet than actually do something." - Altra_Shadowstalker
It probably came here in the first place because it did a search for "pedo forum." - Yukishiro
|
Fat_wong
Posts: 293
Registered: 2007-2-6 07:59:17
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
paulg_68 posted:
So it's some kind of super crappy computer?
What are you going to use it for?
probably will be a terrorists wet dream.
making bombs, killing women and children.
that or super nerds will put 100 of them in one box and then run skyrim off it then brag about it.
because that will make them cool....
|
Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
It uses the same CPU as the Iphone. Interesting. Have to admit, had never heard of it before today when I saw it all over tech websites and such. Sold out the first batch of 10,000 in minutes. Hmmmm..... 
|
Cawlin
Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
So, what's the point of this device? I see it's supposed to be some sort of teaching tool to help people learn to write code...
Is it useful for anything else?
Admittedly, for $35 it is a very inexpensive educational computer if that's what it actually is...
Please explain more what this is about...
-----signature-----
If ignorance were painful, half the posters here would be on morphine drips.
Everyone playing WoW knows everything about playing two classes: 1) their own and 2) Hunters
|
RHWarrior
Posts: 770
Registered: 2009-9-30 18:42:12
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
Fat_wong posted:
...
that or super nerds will put 100 of them in one box and then run skyrim off it then brag about it.
because that will make them cool....
Wait, aren't you the guy who runs to BlizzCon and events like that with bated breath for a glimpse of some LARPer tail?
Yeah I think I'll stick to playing with a Raspberry.
-----signature-----
"Drink coffee - do stupids things faster with more energy! ...and I'm all out of beans..." -me
"  ou guys need to stop dick riding wow and compare everything to it. It never invented a godamn thing, just made it popular. " -tinkly
|
Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
|
|
It's a cheap as hell platform for development. Who knows what uses people will come up with for the thing, and at $35....anyone can play with it.
You could mount the thing, slap a LCD screen onto it (for under 30 bucks) and have a web surfing gizmo and e-reader for less than 70 dollars. Pop a cheap ass usb camera on, and you have video cam, for 40 bucks. A very small and very cheap video cam. 3.5 inch lcd touch screen for 20 bucks, and you have whatever the hell you can figure out to do with a tiny cheap computer with a touch screen. And on and on and on.....
|
