[squeak-dev] C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue May 12 20:23:09 UTC 2015


Thanks, Ron! 

Not quite sure why you think the Pi did not include Scratch? It did, and does. I think it was the second machine to ship a Squeak application, after Etoys on the OLPC Laptop. Now C.H.I.P. appears to become the third.

- Bert -


> On 12.05.2015, at 21:55, Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> 
> http://news.squeak.org/2015/05/12/cool-interesting-wait-is-that-scratch/ 
> 
> :)
> 
> Ron
> 
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> 
>> On 12.05.2015, at 19:11, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 12-05-2015, at 5:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Newsworthy?
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-comp
> uter
>> 
>> It *could* be an interesting thing, but there appear to be some problems.
>> For example, it only has a composite video out, so a fairly expensive
> adaptor is need to use any likely monitor. Not an issue of course for
> headless usage. Except they are touting the uses as a desktop machine - hey,
> even Scratch, wonder if they've adopted my improved version - which sort of
> needs a monitor. And the shipping is *$20*. And it only has half as much
> memory as a Pi, which apparently was a totally killer problem for the Pi
> until the Pi 2 came out. And open source bigots^H^H^H^H^Hafficionados are
> complaining about the use of an AllWinner soc.
>> On the other hand it has wi-fi & BT included. 
>> 
>> As an IoT platform it seems like it would have a good place in the world,
> if the shipping didn't make it essentially as expensive as a Pi but without
> the backup, community and educational raison.
> 
> Whatever its flaws, it's yet another platform shipping Squeak by default, so
> I thought that we might capitalize on that while it's in the news.
> 
> - Bert -
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