Raspberry Pi

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If you're a regular on this website, you'll be familiar with this name. Gert van Loo, a fine chap and a thoroughly decent bloke, designed the original alpha hardware that the Raspberry Pi Model B is based on. Many of you will be aware of the Gertboard, a little desk add-on designed by Gert for the Raspberry Pi, that extends the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins and allows you to interface with the outside world.

Gertboard is now available exclusively through element14 (UK link) - you should be able to find it on your local element14 website. For Singapore and other Asia-Pacific countries please order here, for Australia please order here, for the USA please order here.

Gertboard (left) and a Raspberry Pi - Photograph courtesy of element14

If you want to use the Raspberry Pi to drive motors to open doors, lift things, or power robotics, if you want to sense temperature and switch devices on and off, if you want to blink lights, and if you want to teach it to play the glockenspiel, or if you want to learn about electronics from scratch, then the Gertboard is for you. (This is the stuff I'm talking about when I blither on about physical computing here.) It comes with an assembly manual and a user manual (both of the above are direct download links to PDFs), which also act as a couple of teaching guides, included with lots of programs that show you how to put things together.

Gertboard is packaged as a kit. It doesn't come pre-assembled, you'll have to solder it together yourself. Soldering is easy, as we've said before (seriously - if you can solder, so can you), and we encourage you to have a go. If mistakes are made they are easy to correct, and once you've finished building your Gertboard you'll have a very useful piece of hardware, a new skill, and a lovely warm sense of achievement.

Gertboard is not an official Raspberry Pi Foundation product, but it's designed and produced by someone who is at the heart of the Foundation, it fits the Foundation's goals perfectly, and it's endorsed wholeheartedly, we hope to see lots of kids using it as a learning platform alongside the Raspberry Pi. Go to a presale now (lead times should be short), they're only €30, and I predict it's going to go like hot cakes.

Gertboard is here! | Raspberry Pi

[tilt]

Hello,

I came to recommend this to you:

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I have it (this other version) and for things that do not require sound or video, I think it is a better option than a Raspberry Pi, as it is even cheaper, smaller and integrates wifi. OpenWRT works great.

[cobito]

@tilt:

Hello,

I came to recommend this to you:

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I have it (this other version) and for things that do not require sound or video, I think it is a better option than a Raspberry Pi, as it is even cheaper, smaller and integrates wifi. OpenWRT works great.

Blessed are the eyes.

[Sylver]

@cobito:

Dichosos los ojos.

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Justo lo que acababa de comentar en un punto verde

Todo un placer leerte de nuevo tilt

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@cobito:

Dichosos los ojos.

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[Franziskaner]

well yes, since February 17
very expensive to read
greetings ;D

[tilt]

I didn't expect that welcome! I usually just come to read, but I prefer not to write if there's nothing to contribute. I've seen that the website I linked to is down, so I'll leave you the ebay link, for 18€ including shipping: [http://www.ebay.es/itm/Mini-Portable-Nano-TP-LINK-TL-WR703N-150Mbps-WiFi-for-iPhone-4S-Wireless-Router-/300726391177?pt=COMP_EN_Routers&hash=item4604b09189#ht_3434wt_1186](http://www.ebay.es/itm/Mini-Portable-Nano-TP-LINK-TL-WR703N-150Mbps-WiFi-for-iPhone-4S-Wireless-Router-/300726391177?pt=COMP_EN_Routers&hash=item4604b09189#ht_3434wt_1186) @cobito: The thing is that I've been doing things with the ATMega328P for a while using the arduino bootloader and the Raspberry would be perfect for doing certain tasks whose complexity can't be handled by a microcontroller like getting a sound of a certain quality or access to the network with all the functions and protocols you want. On top of that it's TTL which guarantees electrical compatibility. Surely one will fall in a matter of one or two months. I'm using the tp-link for that... you have direct serial-ttl connectivity and even 3 gpios if you're up for soldering it and if not, for openwrt there are already drivers compiled for the most typical usb-ttl chips, as well as a version of avrdude, which allows you to program the atmegas via internet for example... needless to say that you can also plug things like usb sound cards and webcams into the router, although you can't work with video, but for 18 euros that's too much.

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APC

[deeiivid]

@psgonza:

Hello

First, I did a quick search, and I didn't get any results for "raspberry", if there is any branch out there hiding, delete this! ;D

Well, that's it, has anyone here got a Raspberry Pi?? It's not the most advanced equipment in the world, but looking for minimum space and minimum consumption, it has no competition.

I have it running 24/7 for BitTorrent, and it's going pretty well.

Here I leave you a little photo of the creature:

Cheers!

I bow to the Lego box you've made! I've been wanting to do a Lego mod for years :troll: :ugly:

Regarding the Raspberry thing, the truth is that it's not bad at all. Where did you get it? How much?

[tilt]

@Kernel1.0:

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Very interesting, although not available yet.

While we're at it, some real open hardware:

OLINUXINO is completely open source - including hardware and software, this means you have access to all CAD files and sources and you can reuse them for your own personal or commercial project. There are NO restrictions to manufacture and sell these board for your own use or resale.

OLINUXINO use widely available microcontroller iMX233 which cost USD 5.50 in 100 pcs quantity, this means that people can spin off their own boards and manufacture them cheap as the processor is in TQFP easy to assembly by hobbyist package.

RASPBERRY PI have no released CAD files nor complete schematics, RPi uses processor from Broadcom which is not available for sale in small quantity, it uses BGA package which require expensive setup to assembly. RPi is designed to be home gadget, OLINUXINO will work in industrial environment -25+85C and will be designed to be low cost but NOISE immune.

BeagleBone have open source CAD hardware files but uses BGA processor and BB board is very complex and hard to manufacture in small quantities.

Olinuxino Micro, 24 euros:

Olinuxino Mini, 35 euros, 45 with wifi or ethernet:

[cobito]

This branch is becoming really interesting. I had no idea about the existence of Olinuxino and the truth is that for implementing very specific designs, it is perfect. As for the plans being available, it is interesting as a curiosity, but it does not add anything special.

[tilt]

Well, for someone who, as you say, has created a very specific design and intends to offer it for commercial purposes, being able to manufacture the board yourself changes many things. And the other great thing about this is that, just like with Arduino, clones and derivatives will come out that implement new features in the hardware, and anyone who knows how can develop and sell them.

[psgonza]

@deeiivid:

I bow to the Lego box you've made for him! I've been intending to make myself a Lego mod for years :troll: :ugly:

Regarding the Raspberry, the truth is that it's not bad at all. Where did you get it? How much?

Deeiivid, I bought it at "RS Components" and it cost me less than 40 euros including transport (I also bought an HDMI cable)

For now, it's perfect for me as a download server.

That said, the waiting list is several weeks long!

Regards

[deeiivid]

@psgonza:

Deeiivid, I bought it at "RS Components" and it cost me less than 40 euros including shipping (I also bought an HDMI cable)

So far, it's working perfectly as a download server.

However, the waiting list is several weeks long!

Regards

Well, the truth is that I'll have to look into it, it seems interesting.
As for me, I have an Atom that belonged to an Aspire One that had its screen broken and I was given what was left. The bad thing about it is that even though it's an Atom, it probably comes with a fan. I changed the heatsink so I could do without it, but the BIOS doesn't allow booting without a fan.

But anyway, it's a thousand times better than my old :ugly: :ugly: mule p4 inside a folder file organizer.

[Franziskaner]

a link more ….
Raspberry Pi - The $35 Pocket USB PC | TECHOD

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The Raspberry Pi, now with 512 MB of RAM news on neoteo

[cobito]

I saw it yesterday. I'm just about to order one.

By the way, there are rumors that the next edition will come with a built-in webcam.

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You're joking, right?

[cobito]

@Kernel1.0:

You're joking, right?

This new version has been talked about for a while in the corridors of electronic engineering. One of the options being considered was the inclusion of a small camera because the Raspberry is ideal for real-time image processing and is a very useful option for certain applications and cheap to implement.

Everything is rumors, but it would not be surprising that sooner or later the inevitable happens.

Edit: I have already ordered mine.

[Franziskaner]

with all the possibilities that toy has …. I think that's the least of it
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