It was mentioned above that the supplied NOOBS micro SD was *optimized* for raspberry Pi use. I'd like to know in what way? I am interested in buying a micro SD card so I can copy the original NOOBS micro SD card contents onto it. I'd save the original one for safety and use the copy. I see good rev...

I'll take at look at the bare metal posts. Thanks for the suggestion.
Do you think I should re-post it there, if it would be more a appropriate spot?

Thanks for your reply. I looked up the Gertduino. It seems to be an 8 bit integer processor at 16 Mhz. The Raspberry Pi is a 32 bit integer and vector floating point processor at 700 Mhz. This is a night and day difference. The RPi doesn't have a realtime clock, but I'm assuming one can be found and...

I am new to the Raspberry Pi, and would like feedback to know if the following would work: I would like to run 2 Raspberry Pi's (RPi's) along with my MacBook Air. I assume the Mac would be best for writing and compiling code. One "normal" RPi would run my high level C user program in the normal Debi...