But then I found about the beagleboard, which is open and have the schematics on their website <a href="http://beagleboard.org/hardware/design">http://beagleboard.org/hardware/design</a><div><br></div><div>it's more powerful than the Pi, but seems rather expensive still. It's $150, which is not that much less than an iphone. And if you take all the phone cost/screen and etc so you get only a single board, it should be cheaper and more powerful. Oh, as for comparing the processing power of an iphone, I found a link where someone seems to have figured out what its chip is all about. If anyone else is curious to compare the power, here you go:<div>
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<a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/16/iphone-5-benchmarks-appear-in-geekbench-showing-dual-core-1ghz-a6-cpu/" target="_blank">http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/16/iphone-5-benchmarks-appear-in-geekbench-showing-dual-core-1ghz-a6-cpu/</a><br>
<br>cheers<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/16 Alexandre Torres Porres <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:porres@gmail.com" target="_blank">porres@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe "democratise"?) production</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">start making them locally."</span><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">For what I saw, the circuitry is not opened, or is it? I fear that, unfortunately, I didn't see it anywhere so it seems they haven't done that, although they are surely willing to disseminate the usage of technology.<br>
</font><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">And I know wat you mean and that is why I hope something like that happens. And, as I was saying, the arduino works like that and some people in brazil can spend around less than 20$ in the parts needed to build it.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">And so I also mentioned about this possibility of a newer version of the arduino made up with an ARM processor. It seems it will be not only open hardware, but capable of being both a computer and an arduino. I look forward to that.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Cheers</font></div><div><div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><br>
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2012/9/16 Andy Farnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk" target="_blank">padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 05:47:22PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:<br>
> Thanks a lot Andy, that was really informative.<br>
><br>
> So I see there's no point at all comparing this "super" Pi rack to general<br>
> computers, and that you can't run one Pd having it being served by 64 of<br>
> these.<br>
><br>
> cheers<br>
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</div>Actually, there's a lot of value in these arrays for DSP work, at least particular<br>
kinds of creative DSP work, because what you have is effectively a giant<br>
modular synth. Data flow is a good candidate, because the work is<br>
usually a unidirectional flow of data frames through the system.<br>
<br>
On another note, I was pondering your comment on the economics of<br>
the Pi in Brazil that you replied to Charles.<br>
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Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation<br>
are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe "democratise"?) production<br>
through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to<br>
start making them locally. I know Brazil can't compete with<br>
China on economies of scale right now, but nontheless the<br>
opportunity is there at least without any trade barries based on<br>
intellectual property nonsense. Its long past time we had a standard<br>
international unit of computing that any 10 year old kid can grab and<br>
know the other 9 billion people on the planet have access to.<br>
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best<br>
<span><font color="#888888">Andy<br>
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