#micro computers

Himachal News: प्रदेश के प्राइमरी स्कूलों में पढऩे वाले नौनिहाल अब कम्प्यूटर व एलईडी टीवी से पढ़ाई कर सकेंगे। इसी कड़ी में प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा राज्य के 3304 प्राइमरी स्कूलों को माइक्रो कम्प्यूटर व 50 इंच एलईडी टीवी प्रदान किए जाएंगे। इसके लिए शिक्षा विभाग द्वारा प्रदेश के सभी प्रारंभिक खंड शिक्षा अधिकारियों को स्कूलों के लिए सूची जारी कर दी गई है और जिन्हें जल्द ही कम्प्यूटर व एलईडी की सप्लाई कर…

Tiene un procesador de 1 megahertzio, 64 kb de memoria RAM y 34 años de edad. Pero este Commodore 64 sigue funcionando igual de bien que el año en el que se estrenó, en 1982 y encima tiene responsabilidades que cumple a diario ya que sus dueños lo utilizan en su negocio.

Es: Una ‘Commodore 64’ de 34 años de edad: este Commodore 64 funciona como el primer día en un taller de reparación de coches En: Commodore USA, photo courtesy of Piotr Farmas

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EP09 - Getting Started With @Raspberry_Pi

This week we talk about what you need to know about Raspberry Pi. A new $25 micro computer, the size of a credit card, that has made a huge wave in the hacker/programmer scene. It's aimed for educational purposes, but hackers all over the world also have their own agendas for this computer.

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Why Is This Important?

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How important is Raspberry Pi

What is the Raspberry Pi?

Raspberry Pi foundation (Eben Upton)

Aimed at education

$25, credit card sized computer

Smaller than Sheva Plug

Enough power to run 1080p video (More graphics power than iPhone 4)

Uses Broadcom SoC

Where to order? raspberrypi.org

Setting up an environment

Dev is in Linux: EP05 Getting started with Linux

Video tutorials at: http://youtube.com/RaspberryPiTutorials

Use virtalbox to setup a linux distro (Debian, Fedora, etc)

Install dev tools (LXDE)

Dev in RaspPi will be in Python

Python Development

Easy to learn, object oriented, interpreted language

Official Python Tutorial (Python Software Foundation) http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

Because it’s interpreted you can program for it anywhere

PyGame - Game development library (SDL)

Ideas for development:

where do ppl think they will use RasPi?

Mentioned Links:

Raspberry Pi VM Tutorial: http://russelldavis.org/

Python Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

Video Tutorial: http://youtube.com/RaspberryPiTutorials