[Nottingham] Psst, kid... Wanna learn how to hack? - the RaspberryPi

[Eben Till]

I'm dying for a release date - very soon I hope.
We seem to be in a backwater nowadays as far as engineering goes, as Jason
said.
I don't see it taking off in education, programming may as well be magic to
most of the population right now.

~Eben

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Rich Lovely <roadierich at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 30 November 2011 11:06, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If it is true that this thing can decode HD streams, then it seems
> perfect
> > for hacking a media browser into (e.g XBMC) and gluing to the back of the
> > telly.  Why put up with the walled gardens of Sony et al when £25-ish
> gets
> > you unrestricted access to your own network and the Internet.
> >
> > Heard a pertinent quote the other day "Choose choice, before there is no
> > choice left", Leo Laporte I think.
> >
> > As for it taking off...in the hacker/maker communities; yes.  In
> > schools...no; it does not run Windows and is not as trendy as an iPad.
>  The
> > people with the budgets will buy what they know (MS, nice perks and big
> > discounts) and the people who want to make a name for themselves, will by
> > items with PR clout (Apple).  An actual innovative solution that could
> help
> > the UK educate itself out of recession (the only viable option in my
> > opinion) will get left in the gutter.  The UK has a proud history of
> great
> > inventors and inventions - all of which had to be moved overseas due to
> the
> > lack of interest at home.
> >
> > /rant
> >
> > J.
> >
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> One area where this sort of thing is getting a lot of interest is
> among the UAV builders.  Normally, if they want serious processing
> doing, they either record data to sd card to process offline, or
> stream data to a base station.  With systems such as the raspberryPi
> and another similar system (the name escapes me at the moment), all
> the processing can be done on board.  This means navigation,
> autopilot, and mission activity can all interrelate, without weighing
> the aircraft down with batteries and processors.  It also means you
> can use retail devices on standard USB connections, which will make
> mission-adaptable craft so much easier.
>
> One of my coursemates builds UAVs, and he is planing to make a system
> to auto-stitch aerial photos together, and to plan its own course to
> get better photos of interesting areas.  The eventual aim is to give
> it a set of GPS coordinates, launch it, and have it come back with a
> high quality 3d map (I think pointcloud was the term he uses) of the
> enclosed area (well, high quality for the available camera and
> rangefinder hardware, anyway).
>
> --
> Rich "Roadie Rich" Lovely
>
> Just because you CAN do something, doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD.
> In fact, more often than not, you probably SHOULDN'T.  Especially if I
> suggested it.
>
> 10 re-discover BASIC
> 20 ???
> 30 PRINT "Profit"
> 40 GOTO 10
>
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