[ale] [OT] - Raspberry Pi 2

[Michael Trausch]

There is the oDroid, which is $35 and better still...

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> On Feb 2, 2015, at 12:16 PM, dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> it's pretty neat, but it still has the same limitations as the original: you can't buy the chip unless you're fucking Apple or Google or NASA. you're stuck buying the boards so you can't build a product around it. it's awesome for hobbyists though.
> 
> definitely gonna pick up a few.
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:
>> hardware heads should be trouncing all over this this already but the
>> RP2 is available today. It uses the same video as earlier but now has a
>> quad-core arm7 cpu and 1G RAM.
>> 
>>   !!!
>> 
>> Adafruit.com ($44.95) is slammed and sold out already.
>> 
>> The Raspberry Pi 2 delivers 6 times the processing capacity of previous
>> models. This second generation Raspberry Pi has an upgraded Broadcom
>> BCM2836 processor, which is a powerful ARM Cortex-A7 based quad-core
>> processor that runs at 900MHz. The board also features an increase in
>> memory capacity to 1Gbyte.
>> 
>>       * Broadcom BCM2836 SoC
>>       * Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
>>       * 900 MHz
>>       * Dual Core VideoCore IV® Multimedia Co-Processor
>>       * Provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and
>>         1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
>>       * Capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture
>>         filtering and DMA infrastructure
>>       * 1GB LPDDR2
>>       * Boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux
>>         operating system 85 x 56 x 17mm
>>       * Micro USB socket 5V, 2A
>> 
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