Remember Greg Holloway, the mind behind FishPi? He did a guest post for us about a year ago (complete with kraken) about the difficulties of making an autonomous, solar powered, ocean-going robot . He’s now launched Littlebox , a Kickstarter for a DIY kit to turn your Pi into a desktop PC
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From FishPi to LittleBox – a Kickstarter to turn your Pi into a desktop PC
Digital Trends Raspberry Pi takes a trip to space, snaps photos of Earth, comes back again Digital Trends One of the marvelous things about the dirt cheap $25 Raspberry Pi computer is that if you accidentally destroy it during some adventurous endeavor involving the device, you won't have lost too much. This may or may not have crossed the mind of Dave ..
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Raspberry Pi takes a trip to space, snaps photos of Earth, comes back again – Digital Trends
We’ve just had an email from one of our distributors: I have noticed an increase in the quantity of returns where it’s claimed by the customer that the Pi will not boot. My view is that in the majority of instances they are attempting to use the unit with an OS that is not compatible with the Hynix chip, often inserting a card from a Pi they already have which reinforces the view in their mind that the new unit is faulty
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