Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Raspberry pi, python and robotics Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:42:07 +1200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20140902093058.0ac902ed@rg.highlandtechnology.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net heayxQMXPvkmTqzdq4ZIRQ5wrVgNjPtgv0YbDSBDQO9lJtYJtg Cancel-Lock: sha1:/BM4W/01qvQ6gWT1u/NE+qfp7So= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20140902093058.0ac902ed@rg.highlandtechnology.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:77471 Rob Gaddi wrote: > otherwise getting up and > running will cost you a solid $1200 just in gear. While having fancy gear certainly helps, it's not *strictly* necessary. When I first started dabbling in electronics, the most sophisticated piece of equipment I had was an analog multimeter. It got me through a lot of projects, including a couple of homebrew computers. It's surprising how much you can deduce about what's happening in a digital circuit by watching a needle bouncing around! -- Greg