There are also some pi-like devices that we've been watching:<div><a href="http://cubieboard.org/">CubieBoard</a><br></div><div><a href="http://beagleboard.org/bone">BeagleBone</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341370451">ODROID-U2</a><br>
</div><div><a href="http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135235611947">ODROID-X2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/photos/missed-out-on-raspberry-pi-herere-five-alternatives_p4/6351193#photo">CuBox</a><br>
</div><div><a href="https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/">A13-OLinuXino</a></div><div><a href="http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=13">Gooseberry</a></div><div><a href="http://liliputing.com/2013/01/picuntu-brings-light-weight-linux-to-rk3066-mini-pcs-mk808-ug802-etc.html">Ug802</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>- Steven<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Steven Pease <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spease@ucla.edu" target="_blank">spease@ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Raspberry Pi tend to be out of stock across the board. We have a few for the $500 robot project however.</div><div><br></div><div>The general process to getting a Raspberry Pi working is to write an SD-card using one of the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads" target="_blank">premade images</a>, 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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div>- Steven<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caryl@laptop.org" target="_blank">caryl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Folks...<div><br></div><div>Two things...</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>Caryl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </font></span></div></div>
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