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from the Raspberry-Pi-justin-time-for-Thanksgiving dept.
The big news in Raspberry Pi circles yesterday was the release of the new Raspberry Pi Zero a higher clocked, updated, smaller version of the original Raspberry Pi.
Exciting as that is, what seems much more news worthy is that the price point of just £4 means that they can include 10,000 of them on the Mag Pi print magazine available on sale yesterday.
In this video run down of the features done by The Raspberry Pi Guy YouTube you can see it happily run Minecraft: Pi Edition and is reported to run most software without issue.
The only down side with the new Pi appears to be the micro connectors. Various companies willing to set you up with kits to fill the void.
Also beware of the P&P (postage and packaging) from various retailers, a £4 Pi Zero with triple the carriage.
[Specs provided after the break.]
- A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
- 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
- 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
- A micro-SD card slot
- A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
- Micro-USB sockets for data and power
- An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
- Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
- An unpopulated composite video header
- Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm
At that price, I'd be tempted to get a baker's dozen of them and make my own little Beowolf cluster.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Friday November 27 2015, @11:05PM
You could only if you didn't have time sensitive parts. If you were doing any communication by clock then it would fail. Any low-level talking with other hardware may fail. Without a real-time kernel the interrupts will be very fuzzy by microcontroller standards. Talking to other low-level hardware with an arduino is easy. Not nearly as easy with a pi. Especially if the pi is doing a couple things.
I disagree with your reason why people don't program. The joy isn't just in running a program, but in creating it. If someone only enjoys running programs and not writing them then they probably won't make it as a programmer.
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