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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
Posts: 894
Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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GEEKGASM! Confirmed!
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Cawlin posted:
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?
Of course - that's why geeks are going spastic over it 
Just as a For Starters... for $35 you can turn all this:
Into this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NR57ELY28s&hd=1
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Fat_wong
Posts: 293
Registered: 2007-2-6 07:59:17
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Date Posted:
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RHWarrior posted:
Fat_wong posted:
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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.
lol ive been to one event ever, some of the larper tail was definitly worth seeing.
and I didn;t sit through one panel, because that shit is Booooorrrrrriiinnnngggg
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Cawlin
Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Ptilk posted:
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.....
Koneg posted:
Cawlin posted:
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?
Of course - that's why geeks are going spastic over it
Just as a For Starters... for $35 you can turn all this:
Into this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NR57ELY28s&hd=1
OK I see... so tell me this:
I don't watch a lot of TV but when I do, if it's not a sporting event I watch mostly shows about shooting and firearms and hunting and zombies - this means an hour on Sunday, an hour on Tuesday, and about 3 hours on Wednesday until baseball season starts up again. I find myself very frequently wondering things like:
What other calibers could I get that S&W wheelgun in?
I thought that Doug Koenig was a Bianchi cup champ for a lot of years... how many again and when?
I wonder how I would go about getting an out of state hunting license for one of those muley hunts in Idaho... etc.
For this reason I have found myself wanting to have some sort of web browsing device that I can use but I am reluctant to spend $500 on some sort of tablet and a smart phone's web browsing interface just sucks.
Could I turn this raspberry thing into a web browsing wireless tablet for cheap?
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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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Yes. Plug into any monitor you want (or attach one to it), plug in a USB keyboard and/or mouse, load up Debian or whatever with LXDE, open up Chrome....and surf away.
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Cawlin
Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Hmm... I'd bet there'd be a nice little secondary market for cases for this thing too...
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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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For about 60 bucks you could get a 7inch color touch screen display to hook up to the thing and with a little crafting and effort, make a fully self contained touch screen web browser. Well, have to plug it in still. Cost a bit more to graft on a battery pack and converter.
Of course, you wouldn't have to buy the screen new or anything, and you could get them cheaper than that in lots of 10 or 20.
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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
Posts: 894
Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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Cawlin posted:
Could I turn this raspberry thing into a web browsing wireless tablet for cheap?
You could in the grand sense that yes, that could be done, but not by you  Give it a few weeks/months for us geeks to get our paws on it though and you'll start seeing some amazing mods
The hacks for using a touchscreen on Linux already exist. That and a USB wireless or even 3G adapter would be all you need.
It probably wouldn't be worth it though. Between the screen, the Raspberry, and the adapter you'd probably break even vs a 7" 1st gen Android tablet, which you can get on sale at Frys for about $75.
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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
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True dat.
It would be a LOT more powerful than any first gen cheapo tablet, but not less expensive. I saw one at Big Lots the other day for 49 bucks.
You wouldn't get the cool feeling of having made something yourself however, or the wonderful experience of fixing it every other day for the first 6 months you use it.
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Cawlin
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Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Koneg posted:
Cawlin posted:
Could I turn this raspberry thing into a web browsing wireless tablet for cheap?
You could in the grand sense that yes, that could be done, but not by you
LOL that's true! My techie/hands-on savvy ends with steel, iron, brass, copper, lead, walnut, kydex, nylon, and cordite
Koneg posted:
Give it a few weeks/months for us geeks to get our paws on it though and you'll start seeing some amazing mods
The hacks for using a touchscreen on Linux already exist. That and a USB wireless or even 3G adapter would be all you need.
It probably wouldn't be worth it though. Between the screen, the Raspberry, and the adapter you'd probably break even vs a small 1st gen Android tablet, which you can get on sale at Frys for about $75.
Hmm... I had no idea those were that inexpensive!
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RHWarrior
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Registered: 2009-9-30 18:42:12
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Koneg posted:
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Just as a For Starters... for $35 you can turn all this:
Into this:
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Yeah sure you can!! Great amplifier, that Raspberry.
In other news, Koneg's speaker setup looks like this:
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