An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!
Posted on 03/28/2012 12:47:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We have heard that the uncased early models are slightly delayed, and already sold out, but good news comes from RS Components.
The Pi Foundation blog has shared an email from RS Components about the hardware and its progress.
RS Components is making Raspberry Pi devices. It has updated them on its ordering systems and has plans for a dedicated online store.
"We will be opening up a bespoke Online Raspberry Pi Store for customers to order their Raspberry Pi Model B boards and all associated accessories," says an email from RS Components.
"The store will be opened up to customers who have registered with RS, in sequence, according to the time that they registered their interest with us. Our new Raspberry Pi Store has been designed to support private individuals wishing to purchase Raspberry Pi's and has a number of advantages for customers."
Building the store lets RS Components add more options for customers, such as the ability to buy the Pi using Paypal, Visa and Mastercard, and the ability to see prices in their local currency if that is pounds, euros or US dollars.
RS Components has suggested that it will have hardware available by the end of this month. However, talk about CE compliance testing has lead to fears about a delay. µ
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For 25 bucks you could mount this in a keyboard with a mouse pad (I just happen to have one) and have a portable computer that could be connected to any monitor.
For that matter. You could take and gut an old laptop and mount it in there.
Pingeroo!
DEATH TO OPTICAL DRIVES
I am hereby announcing my dislike for CDs and DVDs. Long live the rasberry Pi...and any and all other similar PCs that may follow.
Hmmm, does the rasberry Pi have an SD card reader slot?
btw, check this out:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/tdk-flash-nand-ssd-solid-state,15131.html
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Raspberry Pi model B
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
We’re a charity, so you can’t buy shares in the company. If you want to support us, we’d love you to buy one. We’ll also be offering a package where you can do a buy-one-give-one purchase, and we’ll be accepting donations too once we start shipping.
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I’m excited about it. I am seeing one of those single chip SSDs being added to a rasberry pi-like PC in the very near future.
When I first read about it, I actually jumped out of my chair. I also like the idea of combining RAM, CPU, and GPU into a single chip, which is what they did with the rasberry pi. I wonder...do you happen to know where the BIOS chip is on a rasberry pi? Is that also combined with the CPU/GPU/RAM?
I bought a used Droid to use as a portable computer. It won’t connect to a monitor or keyboard, but some of the newer phones allow it.
My interest has been following Linux activity....and there is a lot of activity in low overhead verions of Linux Distros.
...for older computers....
And :
AMD targets embedded market with RTOS deal
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Published on 28th March 2012 by Gareth Halfacre
AMD has made clear its intentions to take on the likes of ARM, MIPS and Intel (naturally) in the lucrative market for embedded system processors, adding official support for one of the most popular real-time operating systems to its G-Series accelerated processing units.
Designed for use in embedded systems, including set-top boxes, gaming systems, information kiosks, point-of-sale systems and thin client terminals, AMD's G-Series is a low-power x86 offering which brings the flexibility of a desktop instruction set architecture to a market largely dominated by reduced instruction set chips (RISC) from the likes of ARM and MIPS.
It's a market in which AMD's long-time rival Intel is showing growing interest, positioning its x86-based Atom CE and related processors as flexible alternatives to the traditional RISC offerings from its competitors. Clearly, AMD isn't going to let Intel muscle in on a new market without a little dust-up.
Key to the success of any embedded processor is its support for a real-time operating system, or RTOS. Unlike a traditional operating system, an RTOS uses clever algorithms to ensure that tasks given to the processor complete in a highly predictable timescale with minimum variation, or 'jitter.' A task that takes ten microseconds to complete in an RTOS should always take ten microseconds, regardless of what the processor is doing at the time the request is made.
It's not a feature a desktop user requires, but it's absolutely vital for consideration in key embedded markets including industrial control systems, navigation systems, medical and military equipment. In these markets, raw performance isn't required - but reliability and predictability are an absolute necessity.
Yeah. Saw that.
That’s a neat little machine.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
I used to like to ‘tinker’ with things like that.
When I first became a HAM operator, I wanted a 6 meter rig, but couldn’t afford one.
Soooo.. I converted an old sideband CB to six...
Tinkering is fun.
:0)
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