[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ShadowAce]

[EternalVigilance]

It’s great reading a fairly long story, complete with pictures, and still not knowing when I got done what in the heck the thing is for. :-)

— signed, Not A Tech Geek

[cuban leaf]

I’ve seen this sort of stuff advertised in MCM electronics. I have absolutely no idea what it is, other than some sort of computing device.

[Pelham]

I’ve seen these tiny computers at electronics websites but I still don’t know what you do with them.

[Bullish]

I’m sure it does something. Probably something to do with computers.

[Organic Panic]

I bought on to play around with a while back. But found the arduino board more to my liking since I didn’t need the power of the Pi.

For non geeks the easiest way to explain it is to imagine a table computer without a screen, battery, or any buttons. It is a super small form factor Linux based computer.

[Dead Corpse]

Cool. Now I can use that powered USB hub I bought for something else...

[martin_fierro]

RASPBERRY PIPHONE!

Triumph of substance over form

[RckyRaCoCo]

BFL

[rarestia]

I LOVE my Pi devices! The wife and I have two of them with RaspBMC installed on them (A Pi variant of the popular XBMC media center), and they play everything from home movies, to Pandora, NetFlix, Hulu, YouTube... everything. It’s orders of magnitude cheaper than building an HTPC, but it works just as well.

[backwoods-engineer]

"...much more efficient switching regulator. That helps drive the extra USB ports"

This isn't true. The switching power supply does not drive the USB ports. That is the same 5V supply that runs the board, just filtered on-board a little bit.

Love me some Raspberry Pi.