I'm sure very few of the tech-community have heard of the non profit funded product by the name of 'rasberrrypi'. $40 and its a mini-super computer.
Wow that's pretty cheap, but seeing how a lot of people have smartphones/tablets I don't see this taking off.
Its already taken off but thanks for your dumb ass opinion Derik x] I've thought that the concept was interesting but I've never really found a way that I could justify purchasing one. I guess if I wanted to use it for a project (garage door controller or something like that) maybe, but for anything else I can't see needing it. Like Derik said, you're starting to see decent tablets coming out for $80 that can browse the internet, stream video, do programming type stuff etc. A raspberry pie really only appeals to people who are already tech savvy, in which case a $35-40 computer has limited use.
2Mil units sold does NOT mean that is 1 per household. It's an open source project in attempt to use the cheapest and least amount of material to make a fully functional computer for mass production. To where? To countries whom cannot afford it. You should see the stuff people make with this thing!
You can do a lot of really cool shit with this. Anything that requires some type of controlled environment can be automated using one of these. I heard that you can even use them as a very minimal home media centre, though you'd have to be very picky about what types of software you use to run it.
Raspberry pi is like a small heaven on earth. Install xbmc and navi-x and you're going to have a great time.
I have one and I am planning on do that when I stop being such a lazy dick about it. Or just a simple Linux server to SSH into for coding in Vim / holding git repos.
I'd go with the latter. If you want a media centre just get a shitty laptop to do it for you, or a build a shitty mini PC or something.
Actually they've been around for ages and a LOT of people have heard of them. Both my father and brother have one, and so do many of my friends. --- I've never used one personally but I think it'd be cool to use one to control one or more Arduino modules. Would very easily bridge the gap between computers / software and simple electrical circuits.
I don't understand why you think not a lot of people have heard of them. The Linux community, especially, loves them. Anyways, if you want to see some really clever uses of the pi look here: http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/top/
