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 No.551

You have what this would cost you + shipping fees and a soykafload of time but instead of starting from a precompiled buildkit for kids you make your own soykafty "mini pc".

How do you do it? Is it general purpose or not?
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 No.555

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$200 means no novena :(

The only use I have for the mini-pc's are as servers. My raspberry pi died after running for only a few days. Hopefully my beaglebone lasts longer as an i2p server.

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 No.570

I've been planning on making this, and just got my raspberry pi b+ recently.

I'd like to set it up not only as a mobile/umpc but also as a multimeter/oscilloscope and JTAG programmer.

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 No.571

>>555
that looks so beautiful. how much was it and how are you liking it?

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 No.709

I might get that Kano for my nephew for Christmas.

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 No.710

Read this discussion OP >>>/tech/6920

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 No.725

>>709
scott?

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 No.1009

>>725
No. Unless that wasn't me? But I'll maybe be getting one in a few years for a nephew, when he's old enough. Maybe I should try giving some to some other children who are already older, but they mostly end up getting used electronics from their parents.

Anyway, I was thinking I would rather get something like the Wiki Reader, since it's lower power and being constrained to text-only would actually be a nice feature for an educational toy, since that means it demands that the user practices their reading and writing to do anything with it.

But the foundation that made Wikireaders went under. I guess electronics made specifically for rural areas of developing countries aren't that marketable?

In any case, the code was still on github last time I checked but I don't know of any way to cheaply get a hold of arbitrarily sized e-ink displays. As a substitute, I think Sharp Electronic LCDs might work, though buying them direct looks to be about as expensive as e-ink. Maybe some retailer can stock it. I guess I could just go with a regular LCD display and accept the greater battery drain.

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 No.1011

>>551
I want my children's first computers to be something like that.

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 No.1116

>>571

> How much


$2460

Doesn't make much sense to me. The board is $550. that means $1910 for the case, screen, ssd, memory, speakers and battery.

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 No.1209

>>551
there's a lot of hype surrounding the pi and all the things you could do with it, but as an actual way-to-day computer, even a mini one, it's still very limited. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, the whole reason it's useful at all is because of it's cheap price and small size.

what I think would be better for a day-to-day mini PC would be the motherboard from a laptop, purchased by it'self from ebay for around $100. if you can make a case for it then you have a very capable platform that can easily be used with any OS (even bloated ones like windows >8. the only advantage the pi has (apart from still being cheaper) is that it comes with ram and has cases readily available.

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 No.1215

>>1209
Yeah, the Pi is one of many embedded boards, the only places they really excelled were price and marketing.

If you can find some of the newer pi clones/competitors based on the allwinner H3 or A33 (if I correctly recall the part numbers) you've got a pretty solid little machine- quad core in the 1.6GHz range. This is more than enough for a basic computer with a good linux distro.

These boards are also something of a win for open source, especially compared to something from intel.



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