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Penguins Unbound > Past Meetings > 20121117 - Not Your Mother's Raspberry Pi
20121117 - Not Your Mother's Raspberry PiTable of contents
Not Your Mother’s Raspberry Pipresented by Richard IsaacsonThe Raspberry Pi is a single-board ARM based computer designed with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. It was six years from when the original concept formed in 2006, by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, to when it shipped in April 2012. As it was released there was an overwhelming response from not just educational institutions but from corporations and individuals. Initial stocks were sold out immediately and as of September 2012 over 500,000 units have been sold.
The currently available Model B board is powered by a 700 Mhz ARMv6 processor with 512 MByte of RAM, a Broadcom GPU(Composite RCA, HDMI and DSI outs), Audio(3.5mm and HDMI out), SD on-board storage, 10/100 Ethernet, and dual USB ports. As of today it can run multiple Linux distributions as well as RISC OS and is capable of driving video at 1080p. The board is available for purchase for $35.
This talk will cover the following topics:
A brief history of the Raspberry Pi.
Why education should care about the Raspberry Pi.
Why corporations should care about the Raspberry Pi.
Why individual makers have created an enthusiastic fanbase.
Demonstrations of what you can do with your board.
Richard Isaacson has spent twelve years of his professional career at a local e-commerce company; Digital River, Inc. His last fourteen months have been spent as a Software Engineer slinging Java for payments group. Previously he was a Senior Systems Engineer for the Unix group. In his spare time he likes to learn at least a little about everything.
I had "Hardware Trouble Shooting with Linux Mark K. will describe some techniques to trouble shoot hardware problem with Linux." on the schedule, but Mark feeling the pressure decided to skip the state rather than present.
Here is a link to his Video http://personal.ties2.net/~bdolango/...d/20121117.mkv or http://personal.ties2.net/~bdolango/...d/20121117.asf
His slides are available below as a PDF file. Files1
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