Raspberry Jams

uvox

Any Raspberry Pi dev jams in Ireland yet? Details?

Feathers

uvox wrote: »

Any Raspberry Pi dev jams in Ireland yet? Details?

I wish. Will let you know when I'm off the waiting list

omahaid

Expecting delivery of mine in about 8 weeks, I ordered two weeks ago and 10 week wait

fergalr

I've had mine since mid april.

Haven't done a huge ton with it, yet, though; sort of busy with other projects.

Pretty nice to play with, mess around with it now and again, just in linux, but really needs to be used in some sort of fairly determined project. Be fun to build a robot controller with it - but you'd probably want to be doing something pretty sophisticated (planning AI? computer vision?) before you'd want a raspberry pi over an arduino.


What sort of projects would people have in mind?

uvox

FYI on what a Raspberry Jam is:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=10615

Report on a London Raspberry Jam: http://thescientificmoustache.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/raspberry-pi-i-london-raspberry-jam/

I've had mine for over a month now. I'd like to see hackathons try and address real business problems with it... I don't think BYOD should be dominated by a mobile discussion, lol, however I think as an educational tool it has a lot of potential too and that may be where to start. CoderDojo?

Some ideas I fished out: http://gizmodo.com/5889245/five-things-you-can-do-with-the-new-raspberry-pi

omahaid

fergalr wrote: »

What sort of projects would people have in mind?

We'd need a lot of them but here is one project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

$75000 for factoring RSA 896!!!

uvox

Some energy and ideas also here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056563237

Clanket

Got an email on Saturday saying my Pi has been shipped. Haven't a clue what to do with it when I get it but it will be fun learning.

Procasinator

omahaid wrote: »

We'd need a lot of them but here is one project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

$75000 for factoring RSA 896!!!

Note that the competition ended in 2007 and no more prize money will be awarded.

omahaid

Procasinator wrote: »

Note that the competition ended in 2007 and no more prize money will be awarded.

Ah well, the ECC Challenge seems to be active

http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge/

At least it was last October

fergalr

Whats with the suggestions for crypto cracking challenges?

I'd have assumed the last thing that someone would do with a raspberry pi was put it up against number crunching challenges?

Is there some set of useful cryptanalysis operations that, on a operations-per-dollar basis, the raspberry pi performs favorably, as considered against GPU/FPGA alternatives?

Or are people just messing around?

omahaid

If I was serious about cryptanalysis I would probably use the IBM Cell processor but if people aren't up for a bit of banter then perhaps this thread isn't for me.

fergalr

I've nothing against messing around; I know the SoC hardware you get with the Rpi is very cheap; was wondering if there was some property that actually made them worth considering - didn't think so, but you never know; people buy PS3s to turn into crypto farms, etc.

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Ordered my pi last night - should be here Tuesday. Paid twice the price of regular pi's as I did not want to wait (time is money!).

Also getting into Arduinos, but that's another topic altogether.

Clanket

I still haven't gotten mine fully setup and I've had it about 6 weeks.

I really only want it as a HTMC for the moment but there's been a lot of hair pulling when trying to set it up. Hopefully this week.

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Clanket wrote: »

I still haven't gotten mine fully setup and I've had it about 6 weeks.

I really only want it as a HTMC for the moment but there's been a lot of hair pulling when trying to set it up. Hopefully this week.

Feel free to post the issues here and I'm sure we can help.

fuse

Video up of the most recent Raspberry Jam in London this week:
http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=11705