<div dir="ltr">And it's just "made history"!<br><br><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395736/raspberry-pi-makes-history-as-sales-hit-five-million">http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395736/raspberry-pi-makes-history-as-sales-hit-five-million</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 February 2015 at 15:32, Lists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@bmarsh.com" target="_blank">lists@bmarsh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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> On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Matthew Carpenter <<a href="mailto:matt@eisgr.com">matt@eisgr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Monday, February 16, 2015 13:57:44 <a href="mailto:kwall@kurtwerks.com">kwall@kurtwerks.com</a> wrote:<br>
>>> On 2015-02-16 10:55, Tony Alfrey wrote:<br>
>>> That is really weird; the /kid/ gives the /old man/ the pi. These<br>
>>> things are (partly) advertised as DIY gadgets that are supposed to be<br>
>>> used to teach kids how to program and build embedded controllers for<br>
>>> what-have-you. Clearly the kid knows what the old man likes. Yes,<br>
> it<br>
>>> is a time suck.<br>
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>> I thought about playing with an Arduino awhile back as something to<br>
>> attach to a Linux box to control random stuff. Never go past the<br>
>> thinking about part. I'm ready to pull the trigger on that or a<br>
>> raspberry pi now, though.<br>
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> Arduino is better if you are interested in lower-level embedded<br>
> development. I use it for lots of things where I want to create a<br>
> firmware thing from the ground up (with a community full of free source<br>
> code to do all sorts of things and a gui dev environment that is<br>
> amazingly simple). Arduino uses an Atmega169 (or 328 for twice the<br>
> memory) and is akin to the kind of microcontroller found in refrigerators<br>
> and Smart Thermostats.<br>
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> RaspPi is really a tiny Linux system. It also has a bunch of GPIO pins<br>
> that you can connect some cool peripherals up to, and do many of the<br>
> things you can use an Arduino for, but it's real power is in how *many*<br>
> things it can do using full Linux, USB, NIC, etc... It's more like a<br>
> smart phone than a fridge.<br>
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</div></div>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...,<br>
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>>> On 2015-02-16 10:11, Matthew Carpenter wrote:<br>
>>> lol, I have been doing that very thing<br>
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>>> Actually, I've been using it for vulnerability research on embedded<br>
>>> platforms. Very handy little suckers.<br>
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>> Good to see you are all still here. I got pretty burned out for a<br>
> while,<br>
>> but I think I'm starting to come up for air again.<br>
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> I have to admit to having checked the list once every 6-8months for a<br>
> while. So focused on $DAYJOB. About 8 years ago I chose Kubuntu and<br>
> have had very few questions about Linux. I limited my tinkering in the<br>
> OS to focus on compiled binaries, to see how they worked. I needed Linux<br>
> to *just work* and for the most part, it's gone that way. Far better<br>
> than my luck with Windows. Mac has been ok, but I still don't like it<br>
> much. It is not optimized for the way I work. I'm a die-hard KDE/Linux<br>
> boy. The way it works is how my brain works.<br>
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> Great to hear from you again, friends.<br>
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> Matt<br>
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