netstrider
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This is really awesome. Even if you need to manually add network to it by hacking some components on to it in a primitive manner.
There is no better way to learn a little bit of electronics as well as Linux and some programming than this.
Flashing a LED requires you to both wire it correctly, using and learning about resistors and ohms as well as writing a basic script. All while learning to use a computer operating system - if you have never used one of those before.
Back in the day I used to say Linux taught me more about operating systems and how computers work in a year than Windows did since I used it at the advent of version 3.1. I maintain that it still does if you are willing to put in the effort. Learning it opens your mind to other things such as a little bit of tweaking and hacking and perhaps... just perhaps, real development of programs and drivers down the line.
The latter point is exactly what the ambition of the Raspberry Pi is all about. To enable the poorest of the poor to perhaps discover their locked potential. A poor or financially constrained person may lack education, however; that does not mean they lack the intellect.
It is akin to university endorsement and not having the funds to attend a tertiary institution. What the Pi is doing for the financially deprived is much like receiving a bursary.
There is no better way to learn a little bit of electronics as well as Linux and some programming than this.
Flashing a LED requires you to both wire it correctly, using and learning about resistors and ohms as well as writing a basic script. All while learning to use a computer operating system - if you have never used one of those before.
Back in the day I used to say Linux taught me more about operating systems and how computers work in a year than Windows did since I used it at the advent of version 3.1. I maintain that it still does if you are willing to put in the effort. Learning it opens your mind to other things such as a little bit of tweaking and hacking and perhaps... just perhaps, real development of programs and drivers down the line.
The latter point is exactly what the ambition of the Raspberry Pi is all about. To enable the poorest of the poor to perhaps discover their locked potential. A poor or financially constrained person may lack education, however; that does not mean they lack the intellect.
It is akin to university endorsement and not having the funds to attend a tertiary institution. What the Pi is doing for the financially deprived is much like receiving a bursary.
