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by yasth
3995 days ago
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Integration. RPI is nice, but it has a bunch of things that are off spec for the purpose (Pretty decent 3D graphics, but really painful to do GPU work on http://petewarden.com/2014/08/07/how-to-optimize-raspberry-p... and GPU programming is a bit advanced for 11 year olds anyways), and lacking things that allow a diverse book of "labs" to be done in class. Having built in sensors and outputs is critical. If a school had to outfit their computer labs (to the extent they still even have them) with extra HDMI screens for every work station it would really drive up the price of the program, and limit the ability. This isn't supposed to be powerful, it is supposed to be an integrated tool that allows reasonably fun labs and learning sections for a diverse group of kids. You could arguably do the same with shields and arduino, but then you lose the form factor. |
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I think maybe you meant GPGPU? Because it's pretty easy to do GPU work on it using OpenGL ES.