Re: Raspberry Pi revisited
- Posted by EUWX Nov 08, 2012
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I found some time to start a Raspberry Pi wiki page: http://openeuphoria.org/wiki/view/EuphoriaAndRaspberryPi.wc. I didn't really add any getting started basics since the Raspberry Pi's own wiki has some great tutorials. Any feedback\suggestions would be appreciated as I start to write the second half!
Thanks,
Ira
That is a good wiki. I am not sure what exactly you meant when you said:
"This tutorial is based on the Raspbian distribution, since it is currently the officially recommended distribution. Other options include Debian Wheezy,....."
2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.zip is the current official recommended distribution 10-11 days old.
I would suggest you also look at QTonPi project.
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-RaspberryPi
Somebody on this forum has already done some work on QT on Euphoria, and you might leap straight into a nice GUI distribution of Euphoria (No offense meant to developers of wxEuphoria).
Another important aspect of Raspberry Pi and all ARM processors is the GPU which does boost the speed of Math related processing if you use the hardware. You might want to look at http://elinux.org/RPi_VideoCore_APIs in your work. Considering that the Pi uses a version 6 ARM, your work will probably transport easily to ARM7 processors, i.e. the current plethora of machines using Android OS.
I want to mention in passing that I have NO intention of usurping anybody's position here, be it useful or useless. I have a Pi on order and should be getting it next week. I will be going to the local Pi meetings. My main interest at the local level is my grandson, who I hope I will be able to take to these meetings. Any information I gather, I will bring to this forum AS A REPORTER (not as a developer to be pounced upon by useless people) in the spirit of Open Source collaboration.
