I know some people work with Rpi's here too. Kinda interesting
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/02/raspberry_pi_model_2/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/02/raspberry_pi_model_2/
foundation head honcho Eben Upton said: "I think it's a usable PC now. It was always the case that you could use a Raspberry Pi 1 as a PC but you had to say 'this is a great PC in so far as it cost me 35 bucks'. We've removed the caveat that you had to be a bit forgiving with it. Now it's just good."
Seems pretty amazing for only $35.
Here's the windows announcement:
http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support
With an official partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Microsoft is bringing development tools, services and ecosystem to the Raspberry Pi community.
The official partnership is the part that sours me on the future prospects. It's not clear what that means. Linux development may take a back seat or worse. There's already an element of closed-source to Rpi, now MS can leverage that & lock out other OS. Without more from Rpi, this is pretty much dead to me.
Pi isn't a good development platform - even Pi 2 would be too slow, mostly due to mass storage speeds.I have not ordered one yet but hopefully, in the future, running arduino 1.0.6 with teensyduino 1.2x should be
easily doable with this new pi. I'm setting my sights on a lightweight portable teensy development system using
the Raspberry Pi 2.
Indeed. Worst case I read was Paul (here) trying to build the toolchain. Ran for half a day or more. A simpler compile would be minutes, I suppose. I use Python on an RPi and it's good enough.@stevech
I certainly respect your expert opinion sir, but since I only work with teensy's for
hobby fun a dev system that's a bit slow would not be a problem.