[GLLUG] Raspberry Pi

[Charles Ulrich]

Somehow a paragraph of my mini-review got cut off. I also meant to say 
that aside from the obvious education and hacking uses, the Raspberry Pi 
would probably make a serviceable NAS or backup device if you added an 
enclosure and a couple of USB disks. If Apache runs well, it may even be 
good for some web-based apps like a wiki, calendar, or address book.

But of course all the cool kids will probably make robots out of them.

Charles

On 2012-07-06 13:49, Charles Ulrich wrote:
> I've had it for a couple weeks now. The main things I like about it 
> are:
>
> - Small
> - Ridiculously cheap
> - Low power usage (I measure around 2W at idle, internets say it
> maxes out at around 3.5W.)
> - Many ways to communicate with it (Ethernet, USB, GPIO, TTL serial)
>
> So far all I've really done is mild tinkering. It does come with a
> pretty complete set of developer tools and you can apt-get whatever
> else you need. Bearing in mind the low price, overall performance is
> only so-so and the limited memory means it could never be a usable
> desktop system. (For me, anyway.)
>
> Charles
>
> On 2012-07-06 1:37, Marr wrote:
>> On Thursday 05 July 2012 17:18:21 Charles Ulrich wrote:
>>> I'm in, and I'll be bringing Raspberry Pi.
>>
>> Sorry I missed this. Any comments so far or is it too early to ask?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Marr
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