21-07-2012, 06:26 PM
Somebody has to say this and it might as well be me as the Bulls**t has now reached the stage of the Kings New Clothes.
The Raspberry PI is a bog standard SBC which have been about for twenty years to my knowledge.
It isn't particularly cheap. In fact when you add on what you need to get it going and put an enclosure round it the quoted price is little short of a con.
So far at least the software support is almost non-existent, to the point where the only people who are trying to use it are already 'skilled in the arts'
It's no more of a 'British Invention' than the average Mobile Phone.
The idea that a whole generation of teenagers will be galvanised into plunging into writing code and understanding computers beggars belief. The facilities have always been there, but as usual the take-up is pathetic.
It all takes me back to days of Sugar and Sinclair - Bulls**t baffles brains, but the Marketing is second to none.
Humbug.
Alan
The Raspberry PI is a bog standard SBC which have been about for twenty years to my knowledge.
It isn't particularly cheap. In fact when you add on what you need to get it going and put an enclosure round it the quoted price is little short of a con.
So far at least the software support is almost non-existent, to the point where the only people who are trying to use it are already 'skilled in the arts'
It's no more of a 'British Invention' than the average Mobile Phone.
The idea that a whole generation of teenagers will be galvanised into plunging into writing code and understanding computers beggars belief. The facilities have always been there, but as usual the take-up is pathetic.
It all takes me back to days of Sugar and Sinclair - Bulls**t baffles brains, but the Marketing is second to none.
Humbug.
Alan
