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Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold by deelowe on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @09:59PM (#5035103)
Wha? There's a difference between SWE, EE/CE, and IT. The community around the pi is more for the IT crowd. I see very few using the gpio pins for anything, though that does seem to be getting marginally better.

Most of the value in the pi is the video decoder. So, that's the types of projects it gets used for.

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Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold by flurie on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:48AM (#5035683)
FWIW, I and many of my friends (who admittedly deal primarily with hardware) find the gpio a big draw. The machine is cheaper and more useful than an arduino after you've thrown in an ethernet shield. I got one to serve as a doorbell router.
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Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold by deelowe on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:25AM (#5036969)
Yeah. I'd like to get one for this reason too, but I'm also eyeing the new arm devices that are starting to show up.
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