On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Michael Chesterton <che...@chesterton.id.au > wrote:
> Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to > teach kids about programming and computers. > Semi-related to that, a rep at Element14 at cebit was saying that there are approx. 10,000 Raspberry-Pi's being sold in Australia every month. That's a lot of Linux machines hitting the streets. > > The ipython shell is nicer than the plain python shell and I'm sure there > are other GUI apps that I'm not aware of that do what you want, so stay > tuned ;) > It's worth trying that. Also, tomorrow night, I will be giving a talk on I2C and Linux. It's a communications bus that you may never have known that you had. I pulled out my Soldering-Iron and spent some time doing this on a spare VGA adaptor: - http://flipthatbit.net/2011/04/interfacing-i2c-the-easy-way/ - http://www.paintyourdragon.com/?p=43 When I plugged it into my notebook It worked rather nicely, and I'll be bringing it along tomorrow night for the talk. It sounds complicated, but it's not so bad. When it's connected to a few LED's it's actually rather fun. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
