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Could this be the future for computers?

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Old 02-29-2012, 01:39 PM
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Old 02-29-2012, 07:33 PM
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Very cool! I think it may be, I was pretty impressed by this thing when it came out 3 years ago:



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That is really neat. The super low cost means that lots of younger (read: poorer) people can get into some quite advanced programming. Imagine this as a brain for a robotics project!







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I almost bought one this morning. They sold out. I think it would be cool to use it as a GP development board.



Now, I think alot of people might get the wrong idea when they say this is a development board.. It has free GPIOs which means it can be used to trigger things like relays and what not. It will definately be interesting to see what comes of it, but when they say this is a development device, you don't develop with the device itself, you develop off-device and then use the device to modify it's programming.




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