Raspberry Pi Zero (5USD) with Scratch (Re: Use of the Scratch program in the UK? (Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: Nebraska-tpr.42.mcz))

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 20:13:22 UTC 2015


On 26 November 2015 at 20:11, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 November 2015 at 19:32, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 26-11-2015, at 9:11 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFQmdUc5Vg&feature=youtu.be&a
>>>
>>> at 4:17 shows  the Raspberry Pi Zero (a 5USD computer) running Scratch
>>>
>>
>> This months ‘MagPi’ magazine in hardcopy version includes a free P0 stuck to the front cover. I’m reasonably sure it’s the first time a full linux computer has been given away with a magazine, but I could be wrong.
>>
>> See also https://vimeo.com/146893658 for the official release video, and indeed the foundation website blog at https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/
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>> At 1GHz even a single-core bcm2835 runs Squeak/Cog/Spur quite nicely and Scratch can run Asteroids at 45+ fps, and PacMan (which originally managed <1fps on the original PiB with original Scratch image) trots along at ~12fps.
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>> Using the ‘Shootout’ benchmarks Eliot favours for large non-UI testing, the P0 will score around half of the Pi2  - but with the Cog/Spur vm it is about 5X the orginal PiB system when this all started in2012. 40+ Dorado for $5 seems a pretty good deal.
>>
>> Of course, the web is alight with complaints that it isn’t a quadcore multi-GHz Xeon with terabytes of ram and petabytes of ssd. Oh, and it costs too much, apparently.
>
> Well, there are lots of people who can complain now, because
> everywhere seems to be sold out. To the complainers: don't worry, just
> send me your Pi0. I don't mind.

For goodness' sake, that's _less than a pint_ for a computer.

frank

> frank
>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Bayard(n): a person armed with the self-confidence of ignorance
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