Raspberry Pi
Today I received my new Raspberry Pi, the credit card sized PC, and I am feeling really giddy. The reason I bought it is to teach myself about lower level computing concepts, like how does the operating system work and how does the computer communicate with all its different resources (Because this computer is so small and theoretically more simple than a full sized PC).
You receive this thing and it comes with no instructions what so ever. There is just it, in its box, and you get told nothing. Granted there are dozens of manuals on the internet but I like the idea, “This thing has many uses, you don’t need to be baby fed information, figure it out yourself”. Too many things these days come with more warnings and instructions than necessary (Mostly to reduce a companies liability) but it makes you feel like the designers don’t think you are capable of using basic items correctly.
But I am really excited, I haven’t been this excited over a “thing” in ages. But I must pace myself, I still am half way through my Ruby on Rails tutorial and I need to finish that before I let myself play with this new toy.
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