No sooner than the Arduino ZERO has just been released, with its interesting ARM core processor...
this morning saw the appearance of the brand-new, "Bitchin' Fast" Raspberry Pi Model C...
This is crazy - I've only just closed my wallet from ordering the last revision and reported its first use on these pages - I can hardly keep up with this blistering rate of innovation!
Still - I mustn't complain - apart from the new, racy language (the phrase "Bitchin' Fast" is right there next to the network port - see my red box on the photo above), the changes move the RPi C very much in MY direction.
See all those header pins - they're all I/O - from an ATmega328 used (one supposes) as some kind of I/O processor - shades of Arduino creeping into the RPi camp here.
This is all - of course - nonsense (except for the Arduino ZERO - which is for real).
It is - if you check the date - April fool's day.
Several folks with Jam on their hands have perpetrated a particularly well-executed gag - in a similar league to the great BBC spaghetti joke of 1957...
Nice one guys!
But please don't miss the meaning in your madness; it would be nice to see the RPi continue to grow in a direction which encourages and facilitates Physical Computing, as well as just growing in pure computational grunt.
Happy days, to fools everywhere.
...-.- de m0xpd
That new Pi may be a joke. But the Arduino Tre, if it ever sees the light of day, is essentially that idea; it's a mashup of a Beaglebone Black and an Arduino Leonardo.
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