![]() The cloners will have to wait along side the people who choose not to support their own peers, interests, and hobbies. Unfortunately, this meant we had to make a survival choice between hardware project sustainability, and delaying the ideal full public design disclosure (internally, everyone already has the entire cad resources). Given the popularity of some open hardware projects, we have seen large boutique factory runs of early prototypes simply dominate to starve small projects out of existence. Even Microsoft had to start injecting their ideology into the ecosystem, and that suggests they are having internal managerial guidance issues. not competing with some kids' hobby projects. These people fail to understand that wealth is meant to come from the exchange of useful goods and services. My only complaint is with commercial SOM projects that only seek to irrationally compete with existing works without actually improving the ecosystem (Banana PI/ Intel/ Asus). I am very grateful we have all managed to benefit in some way, and many companies simply would not exist without the opensource movements. As I remember a time when even a C++ compiler was out of reach for most students, and there was no online bug tracker. Often, I am in awe of the hundreds of thousands of people that contributed to gnu, Apache group, and Linux kernel efforts. ![]() But what I have seen so far is remarkable and especially so in light of the fact that this was all done for the sake of proving it possible and not with the aim of amassing wealth.īut what I have seen so far is remarkable and especially so in light of the fact that this was all done for the sake of proving it possible and not with the aim of amassing wealth. I'm sure I will never discover all of the hardware or software capabilities abilities of the machine. I don't own a 3-D printer and I haven't experimented with the GPIO at all - yet. ![]() It may simply be an illustration of Moore's law but it dawns on me that I am witness to a revolution akin to the demise of the dinosaurs. An SSHD the size of my thumbnail.įor less than the cost of the A/A's case alone the Pi provides a desktop CPU that is the functional equivalent of desktop machines that used to cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. A switching power supply the size of a pack of cigarettes. I am struck by the contrast in scale: Built-in wi-fi, Bluetooth (which I have yet to investigate), audio, video, USB and ethernet on a board the size of a postcard. At the time of purchase that machine was equipped with the best and latest of everything. The Pi sits next to a "modern" AMD / ASUS rig that is roughly contemporaneous with the Pi. Without software any computing device is just another doorstop or paperweight. ![]()
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