Still crazy after all these years

[Terence]

And it's just "made history"!

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395736/raspberry-pi-makes-history-as-sales-hit-five-million

On 17 February 2015 at 15:32, Lists <lists at bmarsh.com> wrote:

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> > On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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> >> 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,
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> >>> is a time suck.
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> I'm using a RaspPi to track airplanes overhead and feed the data to
> FlightAware.  The thing sits out in my barn and just ghugs away 24/7...,
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> >>> On 2015-02-16 10:11, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >>> lol, I have been doing that very thing
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> >>> Actually, I've been using it for vulnerability research on embedded
> >>> platforms.  Very handy little suckers.
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> >> 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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