Still crazy after all these years

[Ken Moffat]

Re: Rapberry PI

I'll probably pick one up to play with, and wondered if there is an
advantage to buying from the company as opposed to Amazon or Newegg or
something. I have a gift card for Amazon, so that's preferred, but do want
to actually support the project.

Any tips?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> On Monday, February 16, 2015 13:57:44 kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> > On 2015-02-16 10:55, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > That is really weird; the /kid/ gives the /old man/ the pi.  These
> > > things are (partly) advertised as DIY gadgets that are supposed to be
> > > used to teach kids how to program and build embedded controllers for
> > > what-have-you.  Clearly the kid knows what the old man likes.  Yes,
> it
> > > is a time suck.
> >
> > I thought about playing with an Arduino awhile back as something to
> > attach to a Linux box to control random stuff. Never go past the
> > thinking about part. I'm ready to pull the trigger on that or a
> > raspberry pi now, though.
>
> Arduino is better if you are interested in lower-level embedded
> development.  I use it for lots of things where I want to create a
> firmware thing from the ground up (with a community full of free source
> code to do all sorts of things and a gui dev environment that is
> amazingly simple).  Arduino uses an Atmega169 (or 328 for twice the
> memory) and is akin to the kind of microcontroller found in refrigerators
> and Smart Thermostats.
>
> RaspPi is really a tiny Linux system.  It also has a bunch of GPIO pins
> that you can connect some cool peripherals up to, and do many of the
> things you can use an Arduino for, but it's real power is in how *many*
> things it can do using full Linux, USB, NIC, etc...  It's more like a
> smart phone than a fridge.
>
>
> > On 2015-02-16 10:11, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > > lol, I have been doing that very thing
> > >
> > > Actually, I've been using it for vulnerability research on embedded
> > > platforms.  Very handy little suckers.
> >
> > Good to see you are all still here. I got pretty burned out for a
> while,
> > but I think I'm starting to come up for air again.
>
> I have to admit to having checked the list once every 6-8months for a
> while.  So focused on $DAYJOB.  About 8 years ago I chose Kubuntu and
> have had very few questions about Linux.  I limited my tinkering in the
> OS to focus on compiled binaries, to see how they worked.  I needed Linux
> to *just work* and for the most part, it's gone that way.  Far better
> than my luck with Windows.  Mac has been ok, but I still don't like it
> much.  It is not optimized for the way I work.  I'm a die-hard KDE/Linux
> boy.  The way it works is how my brain works.
>
> Great to hear from you again, friends.
>
> Matt
>
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Ken Moffat
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