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Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi

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On 1/28/2016 1:12 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
>> It's $5.  That alone qualifies it for many projects over other
>> devices. Are you not aware of the other useful aspects of the rPi?
>> What type of projects do you have?
>
> Not all that many, I'm not a hardware guy.  Most hardware things I can
> think of need one or more of:
>
> - ethernet and/or wifi
> - realtime clock
> - very low power (much lower than rpi)
> - tiny (wearable) size
> - sub-millisecond deterministic timing (not a Linux strong point)
> - tons of cpu (makes pi2 much more attractive than pi0)
> - analog audio in/out (present on pi-A and pi2)
> - camera interface (but I don't like the Pi cameras)
> - etc.
>
> Yes you can add most of that stuff to the pi0 but the cost of the
> add-ons swamps the cpu board.  A power adapter for a pi0 costs more by
> itself than the pi0 does.
>
> I'm sure the Pi0 is good for some things (robotics?) but they are
> somewhat niche even for embeded.  Of course the $5 price can't be beat.
> So if you've got some cool application ideas, I'd be happy to hear them.

I'm still trying to picture your application that needs "very low power 
(much lower than rpi)" and more processing power than the rPi zero can 
provide.  Actually I'm trying to picture how you could address both 
those needs in the same hardware.

The rPi zero *is* tiny.  If you need smaller you will have a hard time 
getting a high end CPU with Ethernet, etc in this tiny, tiny form factor.

-- 

Rick

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Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Steve Graham <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 16:33 -0800
  Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-01-28 02:14 +0100
  Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-27 17:16 -0800
  Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 21:01 -0500
    Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-27 19:20 -0800
      Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 23:02 -0500
        Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-27 22:12 -0800
          Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 02:12 -0500
            Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 23:34 -0800
              Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 02:40 -0500
                Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 04:24 -0800
            Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-28 00:15 -0800
              Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 03:24 -0500
                Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-28 00:35 -0800
                Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 16:27 -0500
            Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 00:37 -0800
              Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 04:13 -0800
                Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 04:43 -0800
                Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 16:37 -0500
        Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 08:12 +0200
  Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2016-01-28 11:35 +0000
  Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi Marcos Cruz <use_the_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2016-02-05 21:01 +0000

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