Raspberry Pi micro arcade machine.

[the_antithesis]

LINK



What is says on the tin. A Raspberry Pi modded to fit in a mini arcade cabinet and runs MAME.

[youtube:3b1kna98]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5npkz0xY1fo[/youtube:3b1kna98]

[Kosh]

Pretty neato! Been thinking about getting one to play with.

[pr126]

A miniature ZX Spectrum (from 1982.)  
I did have a ZX 81.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Ha, that's cool. I've got one on my desk at work but never really used it for anything.

[_Xenu_]

Pretty neato! Been thinking about getting one to play with.

Who are you?

[Kosh]

Pretty neato! Been thinking about getting one to play with.

Who are you?

God.

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Pretty neato! Been thinking about getting one to play with.

Who are you?

God.

A rather absent one, considering that I've never seen you before.

[Plu]

Who are you?

God.

A rather absent one, considering that I've never seen you before.

Is there any other kind?

[Kosh]

God.

A rather absent one, considering that I've never seen you before.

I don't see how any of this is relevant for the thread. If you want to ask me who I am please do so through a PM. I'd rather not derail OP's thread.

In hindsight this should have been my first response to you. Instead of trying to be "cute",  sorry for that.

[Jutter]

The Rasberry Pi is cute, but considering how android comes with devolper tools included, how nessecary an initiative is it education wise?
I think the R-Pi will mainly end up getting embraced by the hobbyist tech-crowd, intergrating it into whatever wild project they have in mind. Which I expect will give more cool results like this.

(By the way, the German Conrad stores really overprice the Pi.)

[Plu]

The Rasberry Pi is cute, but considering how android comes with devolper tools included, how nessecary an initiative is it education wise?

I'm guessing the price card helps quite a lot. From what I saw, it's only a $25 machine, even with developer tools included it might be hard to find an android box at that price. And it's affordable enough that you can buy one for each person in a class in school, so that everyone can play with them.

[NitzWalsh]

Also Android is an operating system, not hardware. I don't know if they've succeeded yet, but there is a group trying to get Android to run on Raspberry Pi. So the major advantages with Raspberry Pi are cost, and being able to mess with hardware.

[Jutter]

The Rasberry Pi is cute, but considering how android comes with devolper tools included, how nessecary an initiative is it education wise?

I'm guessing the price card helps quite a lot. From what I saw, it's only a $25 machine, even with developer tools included it might be hard to find an android box at that price. And it's affordable enough that you can buy one for each person in a class in school, so that everyone can play with them.

I was thinking it would be an overabundance in classrooms where tablet computers have all but replaced the old backbreaker-schoolbag, and I was also thinking that's pretty much where things are headed on the long run.

[Plu]

The advantage of a raspberry pie over a tablet is that you don't have to be afraid to muck it up with your software :P
They're also easier to solder extensions on to. But I see the point of the tablet taking stuff over for a lot of things.

[caseagainstfaith]

I don't see how any of this is relevant for the thread. If you want to ask me who I am please do so through a PM. I'd rather not derail OP's thread.

Since you have been absent, if you might do a fresh intro thread.  Stick around, stay a while.