[svlug] 'Raspberry Pi' is a $25 computer on a USB drive

Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
Sat May 14 12:07:22 PDT 2011


begin Sarah Newman quotation of Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:12:15AM -0700:

> 1. this is a standalone computer, not a plug computer 2. typically this 
> will be used with a USB hub, otherwise you couldn't connect both a 
> keyboard and mouse.  Almost any peripheral you can think of has some 
> kind of USB connected version.

This is cool.  If you have a desk where you normally
plug your laptop into a big monitor, you could leave
this thing hooked up to the 2nd HDMI port on the
monitor, so that visitors could use the desk as a
web browsing station while you're gone.

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Don Marti                    
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dmarti at zgp.org




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