Shiny New Toys

on YouTube ↗23m

" summary

Raspberry Pi sells 100,000 on day one and reaches 1.6 million in 18 months, funds work on Squeak, Scratch, XBMC and libav, and ships a Weston on Pi technology preview to enable an accelerated desktop and browser. Examples include a Pi‑powered teddy sent on a weather‑balloon that beats a skydiving altitude record, Pi camera astrophotography of the Moon, and a student‑built air quality monitor; about 300,000 Pis run XBMC as consumer media centers.

AI-written summary · about

" chapters (7)

1. 0:00Start
2. 9:59High altitude ballooning
3. 11:56Astrophotography
4. 12:33Pi businesses
5. 13:45Education
6. 15:29Developing world
7. 18:04New desktop

" related talks

• 33mDIY projects with Ruby & PiHelio Cola · Rubyfuza 2018
• 17mThe worlds smallest R environment? Running R on a $15 computerMark Sellors · rstudio::conf 2019
• 17mThe worlds smallest R environment? Running R on a $15 computerMark Sellors · rstudio::conf(2022)
• 02mDescribes his First Raspberry PiHartmut Lang · Devoxx 2013
• 30mBuilding versatile operating setups for real world use and testing with Python and the Raspberry PiJens Nie · PyCon DE & PyData 2025
• 22mBuilding Raspberry PI SupercomputersFederico Lucifredi · linux.conf.au 2021
• 29mCreating Art with a Raspberry PiStephanie Nemeth · Codemotion Amsterdam 2017
• 34mCharming RobotsJulian Cheal · RubyKaigi 2015