2014-04-20, 14:14
I can't have been the only one who noticed this recent announcement by the Raspberry Pi Foundation:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-...w-product/
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to envision at least one of the numerous kinds of new things this new product will make possible. If someone were to build a little motherboard around this thing... perhaps with built-in WiFi... or maybe not... a power-in socket, a HDMI-out port/socket, one or more USB ports, and a cute square black plastic box to put it in, then you'd basically have have a Roku3. (Oops! I almost forgot... And of course, a built IR receiver, naturally.)
So anyway, who is working on this, or going to be working on this? Somebody? Anybody?
P.S. My personal opinion is that the optimal design of such a thing... for maximum utility to the maximum number of end users with the lowest average cost... would have it contain (of course) the little round power socket... with external power wall-wart, just like a Roku... HDMI-out, and then *nothing* else except three (3) powered USB ports. This way, if somebody needs or wants to go hardwired, they purchase a USB-to-twistedpair dongle, but if they need or want to go wireless, they they instead buy a USB WiFi adapter of their choosing. The other two USB ports would be for (1) mass storage and (2) a wireless keyboard (bluetooth?) dongle.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-...w-product/
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to envision at least one of the numerous kinds of new things this new product will make possible. If someone were to build a little motherboard around this thing... perhaps with built-in WiFi... or maybe not... a power-in socket, a HDMI-out port/socket, one or more USB ports, and a cute square black plastic box to put it in, then you'd basically have have a Roku3. (Oops! I almost forgot... And of course, a built IR receiver, naturally.)
So anyway, who is working on this, or going to be working on this? Somebody? Anybody?
P.S. My personal opinion is that the optimal design of such a thing... for maximum utility to the maximum number of end users with the lowest average cost... would have it contain (of course) the little round power socket... with external power wall-wart, just like a Roku... HDMI-out, and then *nothing* else except three (3) powered USB ports. This way, if somebody needs or wants to go hardwired, they purchase a USB-to-twistedpair dongle, but if they need or want to go wireless, they they instead buy a USB WiFi adapter of their choosing. The other two USB ports would be for (1) mass storage and (2) a wireless keyboard (bluetooth?) dongle.