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Raspberry Pi in the Post-Ordering Era

morgaine
morgaine over 13 years ago

I had a bit of a chuckle earlier on when it suddenly occurred to me that, amidst the amazing worldwide enthusiasm for Raspberry Pi and the very high volume of traffic on so many sites including this one, that relatively nobody is describing or discussing actual projects that use it.  ("I'll run XBMC on my Pi" doesn't really qualify as a Pi project in this sense, as it's neither specific to Pi nor new, and has no educational import.)

 

I wonder, in the "Pi Post-Ordering Era", will traffic fall from the current veritable deluge to a tiny trickle generated by the same few electronics and computing enthusiasts, makers and engineers who have always been creating new things?  Is this intense community fervor only a result of everyone wanting a cheap computer, and once they have theirs, it's back to business as usual with x86 PCs for the vast majority?

 

I certainly hope that the Pi phenomenon will result in many more people interested in computing and electronics than before, but the number of projects reported thus far seems rather low given that there are now dozens of thousands of boards in the wild.  Hopefully it's just early days.

 

Those who have received their Pi and are doing something novel with it, please let us know!  image

 

Morgaine.

 

PS. The reason I chuckled at the time was that the phrase "the Pi ordering community" came to mind, as opposed to "the Pi community". :-)

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    Former Member over 13 years ago

    Morgaine,

       I think it is a mistake to think that the end of the "Pi Ordering Era"

    will usher in the Era of Exploitation.  Instead, it looks like there

    will be an Era of Debugging interposed, which may last much longer

    than anyone had anticipated. 

     

    I am not seeing much eagerness to take ownership of bugs and

    get them resolved, as everyone expected.

     

    See for example thexman's USB packet loss bug that he keeps

    pinging without any response:

     

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5249

     

    Similarly, everyone expected that the obvious bugs in Fedora14

    would be promptly fixed, but no apparent progress in going on 3 months.

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    Former Member over 13 years ago

    Morgaine,

       I think it is a mistake to think that the end of the "Pi Ordering Era"

    will usher in the Era of Exploitation.  Instead, it looks like there

    will be an Era of Debugging interposed, which may last much longer

    than anyone had anticipated. 

     

    I am not seeing much eagerness to take ownership of bugs and

    get them resolved, as everyone expected.

     

    See for example thexman's USB packet loss bug that he keeps

    pinging without any response:

     

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5249

     

    Similarly, everyone expected that the obvious bugs in Fedora14

    would be promptly fixed, but no apparent progress in going on 3 months.

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