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| In a podcast interview, Eben Upton, the founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi foundation, discusses how the Raspberry Pi development is proceeding and how the exploding sales are going to be used for various applications. |
The $35 Raspberry Pi Model B, which is the size of a credit card and runs on open-source software developed at Toronto's Seneca College, comes as 45-gram open board that fits in the palm of your hand. It is equipped with various ports so you can plug in critical components that don't come with it, such as a monitor and keyboard.
Almost immediately, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the non-profit group that designed the computers as a device that young people could learn how to program, was flooded with complaints from customers who couldn't access the distributor websites to place their orders.
In the podcast interview Eben Upton, the founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, discusses how the Raspberry Pi development is proceeding and how the exploding sales are going to be used for various applications.
"There’s enormous stuff just in the—you put in the class of “control.” So people that are wanting to use these to control a thing, whether it’s a home automation, whether it’s something in their car...we have a number of people that are into the kind of hot-rodding scene; I’ve talked about using these to control—as sort of replacement engine management computers. People have talked about using them in various aerospace applications: so, balloons, sounding rockets, at least one group of people talking about nanosat. There’s quite an active academic nanosat community, and so these things actually in orbit would be fun. And then there’s a whole range of people who have these kind of media-like applications for them. It has very good media performance, so some people are just looking to have them as a home media center. People want to run Xbox media center on it, maybe, plug it into their television, and then it’ll just sit there serving movies to them."Upton is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. In his day job, he works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect.
SOURCE IEEE Spectrum
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