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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 27 2015, @03:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the mmmm-pi dept.

Adafruit has released step by step instructions to build your own 10" Raspberry Pi 2 based computer.

From the article:

This project takes a DIY approach with no compromises in cost. The cost of this build easily goes over low budget DIY projects, but it's [meant] to be [a] premium build. It will be used for monitoring and wirelessly controlling a farm of printers. A dedicated linux box with a decent sized screen could cost about the same amount, but when the process of building a project is more meaningful than getting the cheapest deal, this sorta thing becomes a trophy item as well as a functioning utility. Also, we can mount it to anything and design custom brackets to adjust it in any configuration, and that's pretty darn cool.

A PDF of the instructions is also available.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by richtopia on Thursday August 27 2015, @05:53PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Thursday August 27 2015, @05:53PM (#228668) Homepage Journal

    "no compromises in cost"

    If your going to do it right, mind as well spend the money. Now I can have nice hardware stuck in a crappy plastic box, and a spare 3D printer left over!

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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:34PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:34PM (#228682)

    no reason to waste time and money on 3d printing. laser cutting is much cheaper and can do the same kind of work (more or less), without the oops and gotchas that 3d printers (cheaper ones) have. you can't just print and walk away; things often go wrong in 3d printing and you are now out time and materials and your time window may even be over if its a shared hackspace.

    the box is flat, mostly. I fail to see what the 3d benefit is, here.

    then again, I fail to see how newsworthy it is to send more traffic to adafruit when they are simply doing normal everyday things (for them). nothing newsworthy here, guys. many more DIY'ers do more interesting and inventive stuff than limor, but why does she get all the news articles when there's really nothing new at her shop?

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:50PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:50PM (#228690)

      At least it's stealing some of the Arduino mindshare... the more people we can move off of Arduino into Raspberry Pi, the better.

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      • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:22PM

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:22PM (#228758)

        the more people we can move off of Arduino into Raspberry Pi

        Actually I'd say both.

        The Pi is pointless. For every use I see it promoted for it is either overkill or underpowered. As an embedded microcontroller competing with the AVR (called Arduino by the vulgar low info types who fall for marketing hype) and similar actual microcontrollers it is overpriced overkill, like hitting gnats with a jackhammer. For actual computing tasks it is woefully underpowered even when compared to current offerings in the same price range.

        To be fair, the first Pi would have indeed been revolutionary had it shipped on schedule but after almost two years of delay the incredible hype machine they had unleashed had already inspired more competent shops to actually ship better products. Almost exactly the same thing as happened with the XO Laptop, it was hyped so hard and then almost became a Duke Nukem Forever by taking forever to actually ship a product, the hype had already inspired the whole Netbook movement and had rendered them obsolete by the time they finally shipped.

        The 'Arduino' is just marketing hype around what would be a bog standard reference implementation of an AVR microcontroller except they 'accidentally' hosed the PCB and ended up with a misshappen thing that only their branded addon boards can fit without serious rework combined with an aggressive marketing campaign to hipsters in the 'maker scene'. The software side is just as bad, they stole Wiring and tarted it up just a bit to appeal to the arts set and rebranded it. If you want an AVR board, and there is a lot of reasons to, but buy one without the Arduino branding and you get a better product at a far better price.

        • (Score: 2) by morgauxo on Friday August 28 2015, @03:15PM

          by morgauxo (2082) on Friday August 28 2015, @03:15PM (#229015)

          after almost two years of delay the incredible hype machine they had unleashed had already inspired more competent shops to actually ship better products...

          ...for four times or more the price
          TFTFY
          Some years later you can get similar products at a mere twice the price or even a few slightly inferior products at the same price. But.. this is some years later.