On 08/28/2017 06:32 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I know it's a hard sell compared to the $5 Raspberry Pi zero, but
The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized codeable computer with motion detection, a built-in compass and Bluetooth technology, which was given free to every child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK in 2016. I won one of these a about a year before they were readily available here in the US. I've gotten to play with it a fair bit.
It's actually more like the original vision of the Raspberry Pi - an ARM based computer programmed with Python. I guess there are other options, but I only use MicroPython on my Linux box to program it. Hardware wise, it's more like an Arduino than a Raspi. Or maybe somewhere between the two. It's interesting and has some different features including to buttons and a 5x5 LED array, accelerator, a compass, and some wireless com options. - Derrik -- -- Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE dwalker@doomd.net "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak