[ale] [OT] - Raspberry Pi 2

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 12:16 -0500, dev null zero two 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.

Hmm. I _like_ fucking Apple and probably Google. Maybe I can qualify :-)
NASA is (mostly) good folks so I'm OK with them getting a boxcar full.

I've not looked to see if any of the large chip sellers carry it solo or
not.
> 
> 
> 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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