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bane on March 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all

It sounds like that's the reason for the Pi in the first place? A simple piece of hardware hobbyists can target software to.

rdtsc on March 7, 2012 [–]

Once it has USB, Ethernet, and HDMI it is not your uncle's bare 8 bit micro-controller anymore. Yeah developers could sit and each write a different version of HDMI driver, but wouldn't be too much fun. One would expect there to be a nice SDK and libraries to access and make use of all those hardware features.

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