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Hands-on review: Raspberry Pi 2- The thrill of tinkering
Business Spectator ^
| 02/18/2015
| JOANNA STERN
Posted on 02/21/2015 12:21:53 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- This week I’ve been using the $35 Raspberry Pi 2, a bare-bones Linux computer no bigger than a juice box. And I’ve rediscovered something I had forgotten: the thrill of tinkering with a machine and its software. Of course, that thrill is accompanied, from time to time, with the urge to take a baseball bat to an inanimate object.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arduino; pi2; raspberry
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To: ShadowAce
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posted on
02/21/2015 12:22:58 PM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
or throw the dang thing out the car window.
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posted on
02/21/2015 12:24:45 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
To: Kid Shelleen
Cute toy. Might get one for the grandkids.
Much more computer than my brother bought for my daughter back in ’87.
Which was barebones minimum except it had a big (30 Mb) hard drive . . .
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posted on
02/21/2015 1:30:39 PM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
My first computer in 1975 was as big as a microwave, had 8k of memory and no hard drive.
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posted on
02/21/2015 1:59:56 PM PST
by
fulltlt
To: fulltlt
My first computer in 1975 was as big as a microwave, had 8k of memory and no hard drive. N00b
my first computer
To: Kid Shelleen
Been meaning to buy one of these. :)
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posted on
02/21/2015 3:16:00 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
To: HangnJudge
Mine
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posted on
02/21/2015 4:23:53 PM PST
by
pa_dweller
(If just one life can be saved, isn't CCW worth it?)
To: pa_dweller
EPA Micro-68 used to train my students at Southwestern College 1980 to 1983
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posted on
02/21/2015 4:46:07 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
1978 Synertek Sym 1 6502 Trainer
I still have a working Sym-1
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posted on
02/21/2015 4:52:57 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
I had one of these, and like a fool, I tossed it.
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posted on
02/21/2015 5:09:59 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: Fresh Wind
Right now, I have one of these:
Unfortunately, it has a broken arm, and some of his skin is missing.
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posted on
02/21/2015 5:14:50 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: Myrddin
Neat! I don’t remember that one.
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posted on
02/21/2015 5:17:06 PM PST
by
pa_dweller
(If just one life can be saved, isn't CCW worth it?)
To: Kid Shelleen
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02/21/2015 5:45:39 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
To: Kid Shelleen; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...
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02/21/2015 6:49:32 PM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
6 times snappier than the original, better graphics, same price, takes power from a USB port, has HDMI, probably RJ45 (I honestly don’t remember) and standard USB, the old one was acceptable for basic web surfing, this one should add a nice capability to your beeg TV.
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:01:25 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: fulltlt
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:02:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: HangnJudge
Yeah baby!
Fortunately I managed to quit it since I was mostly just wasting my time making video games...
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:08:55 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: HangnJudge
That was like 8 years after 1975. (said as a fellow Timex Siclair owner) I still have mine. (Yay for hording tendancies.)
To: Kid Shelleen
I have seen Youtube videos of people putting the Pi in old laptop cases and things like Game Boy Advance devices. There is a lot of creativity of what can be done with it.
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posted on
02/21/2015 10:22:15 PM PST
by
GeronL
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