a news item: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/
hmm, I guess more people will get emotional attached to rpi. :(
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
a news item: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/
hmm, I guess more people will get emotional attached to rpi. :(
well, the good news there is that the hardware design files will be available under open license. and broadcom *is* actually getting witth the picture (under pressure) and has been releasing the source code of what was previously proprietary show-stopper binaries.
l.
2014-04-08 3:41 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
a news item: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/
hmm, I guess more people will get emotional attached to rpi. :(
well, the good news there is that the hardware design files will be available under open license. and broadcom *is* actually getting witth the picture (under pressure) and has been releasing the source code of what was previously proprietary show-stopper binaries.
The bad news is that I'm now getting visions of TV,NAS,Router,PVR "RPi SOM" compatible devices. Making the RPi SOM SO-DIMM interface a sort of standard. Where these should have been EOMA-68 compatible.
l.
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross < maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me> wrote:
hmm, I guess more people will get emotional attached to rpi. :(
...is it just me, or is the idea of a $35 (ish) computer that requires a $100+ monitor (or some *really* clever jiggering and something that can receive blurry ugly composite video) in order simply to have a display... well, doesn't that seem a little stupid? Above all else, the Pi is (theoretically) supposed to be a hacker/maker-friendly, hobbyist-friendly, super-low-cost computer. There really aren't many display interfaces in the world that are *less* hacker/maker- and hobbyist-friendly than HDMI. Besides, all my displays are VGA only -- and I'm not in a hurry to change that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know? As far as I'm concerned, HDMI can go play a nice long game of Hide And Go **** Yourself.
tl;dr I'm buying a RasPi if it doesn't have a VGA port or some otherwise native support for VGA.
@Luke -- I remember you're particular about etiquette -- I hope I'm not screwing it up -- I'm a little rusty :(
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:04:34PM -0400, Christopher Havel wrote:
...is it just me, or is the idea of a $35 (ish) computer that requires a $100+ monitor (or some *really* clever jiggering and something that can receive blurry ugly composite video) in order simply to have a display...
Errrm, who said that a computer needs a monitor/keyboard/mouse ? There are plenty of uses where it just talks to non-human interacting devices, eg: broadband router, process control (central heating, weather station, ...)
well, doesn't that seem a little stupid? Above all else, the Pi is (theoretically) supposed to be a hacker/maker-friendly, hobbyist-friendly, super-low-cost computer. There really aren't many display interfaces in the world that are *less* hacker/maker- and hobbyist-friendly than HDMI. Besides, all my displays are VGA only -- and I'm not in a hurry to change that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know? As far as I'm concerned, HDMI can go play a nice long game of Hide And Go **** Yourself.
tl;dr I'm buying a RasPi if it doesn't have a VGA port or some otherwise native support for VGA.
I bought this HDMI -> VGA converter for my R-Pi, it cost #8.05 when I got it in Jan (they seem to have back to back special offers):
http://www.cellphoneshop.net/hdmivga.html
This looks neater:
http://www.dhgate.com/store/product/hdmi-male-to-vga-converter-hdmi-to-vga-c...
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