[Olpc-socal] SCaLE11X OSSIE and Raspberry Pi

[Steven Pease]

There are also some pi-like devices that we've been watching:
CubieBoard <http://cubieboard.org/>
BeagleBone <http://beagleboard.org/bone>
ODROID-U2<http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341370451>
ODROID-X2<http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135235611947>
CuBox<http://www.zdnet.com/photos/missed-out-on-raspberry-pi-herere-five-alternatives_p4/6351193#photo>
A13-OLinuXino <https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/>
Gooseberry <http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=13>
Ug802<http://liliputing.com/2013/01/picuntu-brings-light-weight-linux-to-rk3066-mini-pcs-mk808-ug802-etc.html>

These may be easier to get ahold of, and in many cases use more powerful
processors or offer additional capabilities to the Pi. They range from
about $40 to $150.

- Steven

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Steven Pease <spease at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Raspberry Pi tend to be out of stock across the board. We have a few for
> the $500 robot project however.
>
> The general process to getting a Raspberry Pi working is to write an
> SD-card using one of the premade images<http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads>,
> put it into the Pi, and then hook the Pi up to
> monitor/keyboard/mouse/network and plug it in. You log in with username
> "pi" password "raspberry", then do "startx" to bring up the graphical
> environment (if you want).
>
> The Pi tends to be somewhat slow compared to a desktop and has a very
> minimalist set of applications by default, so you'd probably want to
> install an application that'd be fun to play with. With the "Raspbian"
> images, you can use "apt-get" like Ubuntu. The Arch Linux images are
> somewhat faster, but Arch in general requires more power-user knowledge to
> get setup and running.
>
> What we've been doing for the robotics project is some facial recognition
> using OpenCV, and remotely controlling an Arduino that drives a robot. One
> robot is a Roomba, the other robot is a motorized wheelchair base (minus
> the chair) that's been reworked to run via Arduino/Pi. Currently they are
> manually controlled, our intended goal is to get enough intelligence on the
> Pi for them to be capable of a few simple tasks.
>
> - Steven
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Caryl Bigenho <caryl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Folks...
>>
>> Two things...
>>
>> 1)  they are still looking for a couple more speakers for the Saturday
>> OSSIE track. Anyone want to jump in and try one? I need to know right away
>> if you are interested.
>>
>> 2) Do any of you have a Raspberry Pi? Have you done anything with it yet?
>> I have one and want to get it working by SCaLE. I could really use some
>> help/advice. Either email or Skype or both would work for me.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Caryl
>>
>>
>>
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