Raspberry Pi ultra-low-cost ARM based computer (about the size of an USB key)

General Discussions
#15

I doubt it, I don’t think that’s the direction they’re going for. Hard to find info on what tech the device uses though. Or if it’s real.

#16

not that I care very much but a tweaked J2ME would run without problems. Some Java 1.4 syntax for you though.

#17

Yes, one of the main inventors of this nice little computers, David Braben himself, said in one of the announcement videos that the device should be out for the (mass?) market in about one year or so.

I always loved the cool ARM processor, especially in the good old Acorn Archimedes days back then. Braben’s Zarch (and then Conqueror) was just incredible.

Maybe Braben does a kind of Zarch-II for the launch of Raspberry? :slight_smile: Java-Zarch? hihi. I always love him because of Elite.

PS, just for nostalgia: Acorn ported Java to the ARM’ed Archie back then, I think already the A5000 run Java. Not today’s OpenJDK, though…

#18

Would it be possible to replace this SoC by a x86 compatible SoC? AMD Geode LX? Something smaller?

Edit.: This seems to be an ancestor of this product:

#19

So its getting pretty hot and the Paspberry Pi will be ready for shipping in a few days

meanwhile: OpenJDK ARM port; which you lwjgl people twittered about

most interesting

I mean this thing is incredible nevertheless

#20

RCA composite video out !?!? Wow, haven’t seen that since my first computer, a Sinclair ZX81 from 1979.
I’ll have to keep an eye on this one, it looks so cool.

#21

well many video cards have svideo out - in any case, connecting it to a tv should be easy

#22

JOGL 2.0 already supports Linux ARM and Android ;D

#23

Bah, I seem unable to buy one today.

Cas :slight_smile:

#24

looks like massive demand has killed the website, however seems you can still order one here.

#25

Nope, only 2 distributors, one is only registering interest, the other is sold out of preorders and their site is unresponsive.

Endolf

#26

yeah there was never any to be bought
it was all pre-order stuff

stayed up for nothing =P

#27

There are some resellers which expect to have enough new raspberrys at and of march, not such a long time to wait.

also the 25$ model got upgraded ram, now the same as the 35$ one. The only difference now is that one have a additional ethernet and usb port

#28

I’m going to buy one, simply for the fact that it’s a credit card-sized computer that I can code on.

#29

You mean, like your phone?

#30

But you can’t code on your phone, at least…so far I haven’t found a way to connect a keyboard to mine :persecutioncomplex:

#31

[quote]But you can’t code on your phone
[/quote]
yes you can ! :wink:

but anyway this “toy” is really fun, I found it even more interresting for doing some kind of robotics

#32

My friend managed to get one. I’m jelly.

#33

I have to admit that the Pi is probably the only thing that’s going to get me using C in earnest again.

Cas :slight_smile:

#34

I lack the imagination to think of anything that I’d want to use one of these for. Robotics isn’t my thing, and I’ve already got plenty of general purpose computers, so … eh. Glad that people more creative than me have a nice toy for gadget-making anyway.