The Raspberry Pi Foundation on Tuesday announced the availability of a touchscreen that brings the low-cost tiny computer one step closer to becoming a standalone mobile device. The touchscreen was in development for nearly two years. The first round of screens will require some assembly of parts that arrive in a small kit, noted Gordon Hollingworth, director of software at Raspberry Pi. For those who can tolerate the wait, shipments of assembled screens will come later.
Oh; one last comment:
Do NOT waste your time pointing out to the Raspberry Pi people the shortcomings--no matter HOW objective and nice you are--of their product.
Any such observations will be met with no conversation at all; the guardian of the gate (YOU fill in the blank; the guardian knows who s/h/e is) will simply have your post removed.
Civil dialogue and conversation is not a part of what The Raspberry Pi Foundation considers good engineering and good science.
The Raspberry Pi is right on track to become the next Ubuntu.
What's the next Grandstand/Showboat, Liz, err, Eben?
"The touchscreen was in development for nearly two years. The first round of screens will require some assembly of parts that arrive in a small kit, noted Gordon Hollingworth, director of software at Raspberry Pi. For those who can tolerate the wait, shipments of assembled screens will come later."
Sorry, but this-as well as much else-- sounds like pufferyy on the part of the RPi Foundation.
More than TWO YEARS in development? (IT'S still NOT DONE)
Here's an objective review, "Oh, good. Now I've got a use for that DSI port."(!)
Perfect timing: tablet sales are tanking because of ergonomics, and RPi started working on this less-than-sterling-spec device TWO YEARS AGO, and still aren't finished. AND, one can buy an Amazon tablet for $50.00. LESSEE now, $39 + $74 + $15 + 12 + $15 + poor resolution + ... Yup! right up there with my $50.00 tablet.
Oh, and speaking of timing: if the brain trusts at RPi had decided two years ago to invest these two years into something really ground-breaking, who knows what the results could have been?
On the other hand, perhaps they DID, and these ARE the results.
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Raspberry Pi Gets a Touchscreen to Call Its Own
Posted by: Jack M. Germain September 10, 2015 02:45 PMThe Raspberry Pi Foundation on Tuesday announced the availability of a touchscreen that brings the low-cost tiny computer one step closer to becoming a standalone mobile device. The touchscreen was in development for nearly two years. The first round of screens will require some assembly of parts that arrive in a small kit, noted Gordon Hollingworth, director of software at Raspberry Pi. For those who can tolerate the wait, shipments of assembled screens will come later.
Do NOT waste your time pointing out to the Raspberry Pi people the shortcomings--no matter HOW objective and nice you are--of their product.
Any such observations will be met with no conversation at all; the guardian of the gate (YOU fill in the blank; the guardian knows who s/h/e is) will simply have your post removed.
Civil dialogue and conversation is not a part of what The Raspberry Pi Foundation considers good engineering and good science.
The Raspberry Pi is right on track to become the next Ubuntu.
What's the next Grandstand/Showboat, Liz, err, Eben?
Sorry, but this-as well as much else-- sounds like pufferyy on the part of the RPi Foundation.
More than TWO YEARS in development? (IT'S still NOT DONE)
Here's an objective review, "Oh, good. Now I've got a use for that DSI port."(!)
Perfect timing: tablet sales are tanking because of ergonomics, and RPi started working on this less-than-sterling-spec device TWO YEARS AGO, and still aren't finished. AND, one can buy an Amazon tablet for $50.00. LESSEE now, $39 + $74 + $15 + 12 + $15 + poor resolution + ... Yup! right up there with my $50.00 tablet.
Oh, and speaking of timing: if the brain trusts at RPi had decided two years ago to invest these two years into something really ground-breaking, who knows what the results could have been?
On the other hand, perhaps they DID, and these ARE the results.