I first came across this about a year ago when I was installing Kodi on my computer, and there were instructions there for something called Raspberry Pi.
I looked into it since I'd never heard of it before, and essentially what it is, is a bare bones basic computer, roughly the size of a credit card. It costs depending on the model from $5-$40.
It's established a bit of a cult following, and people have used it to create some pretty interesting things. It can be used as the brain for old video game emulators, KODI TV box (as above), actual old arcade style games, one person wanted to use it as an MP3 player with an SD slot attached and with a LCD touch screen for input, it really seems like the possibilities are fairly endless, as long as it's a reasonably low computation task. The other thing which seems very interesting, is it seems to make the leap from pure programming (entirely digital) to devices which can have external real world inputs and outputs.
Has anyone bought and used one of these before or made any creations? Given how prominent programming is here for the location independence aspect, I'm surprised this little device hasn't been brought up before (aside from being briefly touched on in a Python thread).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/
I looked into it since I'd never heard of it before, and essentially what it is, is a bare bones basic computer, roughly the size of a credit card. It costs depending on the model from $5-$40.
It's established a bit of a cult following, and people have used it to create some pretty interesting things. It can be used as the brain for old video game emulators, KODI TV box (as above), actual old arcade style games, one person wanted to use it as an MP3 player with an SD slot attached and with a LCD touch screen for input, it really seems like the possibilities are fairly endless, as long as it's a reasonably low computation task. The other thing which seems very interesting, is it seems to make the leap from pure programming (entirely digital) to devices which can have external real world inputs and outputs.
Has anyone bought and used one of these before or made any creations? Given how prominent programming is here for the location independence aspect, I'm surprised this little device hasn't been brought up before (aside from being briefly touched on in a Python thread).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/