Still crazy after all these years

[Terence]

Buying from any supplier will benefit the project, and you can contribute
directly should you wish.

They are great to play with, and I am hoping to implement a home security
system based on one.

On 17 February 2015 at 16:35, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at modizzle.net> wrote:

> 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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