i have a Windows 10 PC <div>that is the size of a cellphone actually it's smaller<div>but heavier and runs hot</div><div>it has WIFI HDMI Ethernet and USB</div><div>it's the only one with Ethernet i could find</div><div><br></div><div>i haven't looked for a Linux one yet</div><div><br></div><div>if i could get one with the 3 ports </div><div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">HDMI Ethernet USB</span></font><br></div><div><br></div><div>if it could be a rasberry pi with Squeak and Scratch</div><div>that could be nice would that be nice?</div><div>or would just straight Linux be best</div><div>i guess i could just stick Linux on the Windows 10 device</div><div>And squeak and scratch or anything else</div><div>so I've got the ports i like </div><div>HDMI Ethernet USB </div><div>in this device</div><div>and i can stick Linux squeak scratch on there </div><div>lots of different ways</div><div>so i guess you just get the ports you like</div><div>and then you can stick anything else on there you want</div><div>it doesn't have to remain Windows 10</div><div><br></div><div>i would like to make a tomatoe growing robot</div><div>that hanging tomato growing unit</div><div>has been sitting there for a decade unopened</div><div>we don't have enough sunlight to make it work grow light</div><div>i guess just a rasberry pi in a plastic box </div><div>would work for that</div><div><br></div><div>if that could connect to a</div><div>HDMI Ethernet USB device via Ethernet </div><div>could that work? would that be good?</div><div>is there some other way? that people use</div><div>can squeak/scratch talk to squeak/scratch via Ethernet ? wifi?</div><div><br></div><div>so i guess i could use one of these $140 piTops</div><div>to run the tomatoe robot</div><div><br></div><div>but i kind of think i would rather have a pocket</div><div>pi Linux running a monitor and keyboard</div><div>and just run the Ethernet cable over there</div><div>to the robot</div><div>every now and again</div><div>or wifi to it i guess but we seem to get a lot of wifi interference</div><div><br></div><div>probably connecting piTop to a pocket Linux or</div><div>even a pocket Windows</div><div>via wifi or USB or Ethernet using sockets would be easiest </div><div>yes</div><div>it's the communication part i have never tried yet</div><div>sockets?</div><div>and it would be so cool</div><div><br></div><div>maybe i could even get my wife in on it</div><div>she did Smalltalk in college before she entered into the dark side</div><div><br></div><div>i don't know the mechanics </div><div>but i guess i have access to a kid who knows that</div><div><br></div><div>so basically it's just a failure to communicate </div><div>that stops it<br><br>On Friday, July 1, 2016, Kjell Godo <<a href="mailto:squeaklist@gmail.com">squeaklist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes<br><br>On Friday, July 1, 2016, tim Rowledge <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tim@rowledge.org');" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 30-06-2016, at 11:13 PM, Kjell Godo <<a>squeaklist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> that's very nice<br>
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> personally i want just a small<br>
> pocket sized box with more RAM +<br>
> HDMI , USB , Ethernet , power<br>
> like a pocket Linux PC<br>
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I think we call them ‘cellphones’ these days?<br>
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tim<br>
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tim Rowledge; <a>tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" target="_blank">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
I am still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie.<br>
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