(2014-04-23, 21:43)Ned Scott Wrote: If people want to debate the merits of the Raspberry Pi in general then that is not for this thread. That's another never-ending debate that some people have. If someone wants to say "I don't think this Pi module is good" then that is different, and is relevant to this thread.
I, having been the person who began this thread, hope that Ned will not think I am too far off-topic if I just say that I think that
everything is great!
Seriously, I'm just a software engineer, but I've been one for a long long time, and even I would never have imagined... even as recently as ten years ago... that we all would be treated... by the folks who develop hardware... to such an embarrassment of riches as we are nowadays presented with. Honest to god, I wish that I had both the money and a sufficient excuse to allow me to own at least one of
all and each of these new ARM-based little computers that now, everybody and his brother seems to be coming out with. I wish that I had every model of the Pi,
and every model of the Odroid
and every model of the pcDuino, and on and on and on. These are all
very cool little machines, and together they are opening up whole new worlds of possibilities, not just for us software developers, but more importantly for ordinary people. Twenty years ago, some of us would have
killed for
any machine that ran at anything over a couple of hundred megahertz, that had anything over a few megabytes of RAM,
and that also just happened to fit in your shirt pocket and cost less than a grand. Today the only question is:
Which one?
May you live in interesting times.
I already do.
