The 'Raspberry Pi' thread

[Madengineer]

Damn thats open.

So it doesnt have any built in storage does it? (You'd think they could atleast put 4gb on it)

[ewok85]

Originally Posted by Madengineer

Damn thats open.

So it doesnt have any built in storage does it? (You'd think they could atleast put 4gb on it)

Why? It has a CF socket - all you really need.

[Madengineer]

Originally Posted by ewok85

Why? It has a CF socket - all you really need.

......And it wouldnt have been just as easy to include storage?

On another note, would you be able to run an external HDD through this? If so, that'd be one great HTPC

[s3kemo]

Originally Posted by Madengineer

......And it wouldnt have been just as easy to include storage?

On another note, would you be able to run an external HDD through this? If so, that'd be one great HTPC

When you start tacking on random stuff you start bumping up the costs. The whole point was to keep costs down. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Besides, I wouldn't have used any inbuilt storage that it came with. I'd prefer a slot where I can choose how much storage I want to give it.

[ewok85]

Originally Posted by Madengineer

......And it wouldnt have been just as easy to include storage?

On another note, would you be able to run an external HDD through this? If so, that'd be one great HTPC

Perhaps, but to what end? SD cards are a much better solution - cheap, common, fairly sturdy.

Yes, you can probably mount an external HDD, not sure what performance would be like.

I think the RasPi shows a strong interest in cheap, feature rich embedded computers. I wonder how much they could make a i386 board with a decent graphics controller, gigabit and sata for?

Apparently about $70 for this - http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc...tion-brief.pdf

Add about $10 for RAM and $25 for a PicoPSU-80 - not bad for a fully functional PC IMO.

[elvis]

Originally Posted by Madengineer

......And it wouldnt have been just as easy to include storage?

As mentioned, the more stuff you keep adding on, the more the cost goes up. Good on them for *not* adding random crap, and keeping it simple and minimalist.

Originally Posted by Madengineer

On another note, would you be able to run an external HDD through this? If so, that'd be one great HTPC

It's a small Linux box with a network and USB port. The world is your oyster.

[Mau1wurf1977]

What are the (teaching) resources like?

[ewok85]

Originally Posted by Mau1wurf1977

What are the (teaching) resources like?

This was on the front page today - http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1116

Over the past few months the Computing at School’s working group (CAS) has been working on a user manual to be ready for the educational launch. The manual is destined to answer that question to be asked by many Raspberry Pi owners; “What do I do with it?“

It might be a few months until any really good resources are out - the add-ons planned by the RasPi guys seem pretty cool (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411), and I've heard some suggestions like making simple things from servos and motors (robots arms, hands, cars etc) and having the Rasberry Pi as a standard bit of equipment that can be dropped in to control it in a classroom.

Also sounds like a good portable little computer - like a laptop, but cheaper. You could have a room with just monitors, keyboards and mice where people just bring their RasPi to be able to work. Would have loved something like that when I did programming in uni - it was horrible working with their machines

[MrSmoke]

Originally Posted by nanolimit

Agreen with this guy

29/02/2012 17:59:16 and still on back order

29/02/2012 18:28 Same. Worst part was I got onto the website as soon as the sale started yet it took until then to checkout :/

[htpcfan]

Originally Posted by Madengineer

......And it wouldnt have been just as easy to include storage?

On another note, would you be able to run an external HDD through this? If so, that'd be one great HTPC

I'm a little surprised that a 'mad engineer' doesn't know that the compact flash interface is electrically identical to the ATA interface, so yes it should be extremely easy to interface this to a PATA device, or maybe even SATA if you use a PATA to SATA convertor.

We used to use CF cards in an 'IDE adapter' (basically just passed the lines to the larger PATA interface and usually had an external power adapter for the +5V and GND) as solid state HDDs in our Amiga computers before 2.5" HDDs dropped in price.

Which thinking about it.. the Raspberry Pi may only support 'small' HDDs (ie: 128GB) due to the limited data paths on the CF 'bus'.

[Paronga]

also the limited speeds of the PATA interface.

you can't just go pata to SATA 6Gbps

[mtma]

ED- wtf guys, the rpi doesn't have a CF connector. Thank **** for that.

[elvis]

Originally Posted by Paronga

also the limited speeds of the PATA interface.

you can't just go pata to SATA 6Gbps

It's clear to me people are totally missing the point of RPi.

[IzzehO]

Originally Posted by mtma

ED- wtf guys, the rpi doesn't have a CF connector. Thank **** for that.

Yep. No idea what everyone is on about. I assume they mixed up TF with CF, but even then that is incorrect.

It's got a bog standard SD/MMC slot.

http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoardVerifiedPeripherals

Has plenty of detailed info on what can and can't be connected.

Evidentally there are issues with class 10 SD cards due to a bug in bootloader.

[elvis]

I say again, it's a Linux box with a USB and Ethernet port. The list of things you can connect to this is enormous, and anyone having a whine about it is not only missing the point, but also lacks the ability to see the bleeding obvious.