<r>And for anyone interested in the Videocore IV GPU itself, here is the Broadcom chip with it in. Not much detail I am afraid, but the specs outlined above cover most of the major features. This chip doesn't have the Arm in it, and isn't the one used on the Raspberry Pi.<br/> <br/> <URL url="http:/...

Remember the R-Pi runs Linux which supports a lot of Wireless USB dongles (but not all) out of the box. Cost about $10-$15, so unlikely to be shipped with the device itself as that would increase the price too much and many may not need it.

<t><br/> TBH, I'm not aware of anyone who genuinely open sources all of their multimedia.<br/> At least AMD and Intel do.<br/> <br/> <br/> I believe that they don't open source the firmware blob running on the chip itself - just the drivers (which don't usually do any real work). Please correct me i...

<t>I'm not sure whether people above are talking about the linux drives, or the binary firmware blob that runs on the MM chip itself, but remember, the drivers give you access to the firmware on the MM chip. There is a lot of firmware running on that chip which stays closed, which nobody really need...

<t>I was a BBC micro boy (serial number 3335 - it's in the loft). BBC basic and 6502 assembler, writing adventures games, shoot em ups etc. I entered and won the Cambridge regional heats of a competition run by Acorn to write a game based on Tron - anyone else remember that compo? Wrote a text adven...

Or perhaps just have 2 SD cards? Or however many SD cards you need for all your different OS's. Just keep one unchanged so you can always revert to as new condition.

There's no flash on board, so all the required OS data is on the SD card.

Sorry I was thinking higher quality (i.e. >VGA and 30fps or so) , but you are right, a webcam would work if that gives you sufficient image quality. You still might have issues when using multiple cameras and with latency over the wifi link.

If you know of an publically available Arm linux build of Adobe Flash player, that uses an accelerated OpenVG backend, then it could play back flash. I don't think native arm code would be fast enough. I'm not sure Adobe have released one. I do however, know it's possible.

It's not the ARM, it's the GPU that does all the hard work.

As long as the OS of your choice had ported all the appropriate drivers for the GPU (display control would be the obvious one), which won't be a trivial task, I think that might work.

<t>Don't think there is much point in having shares in a charity. All money is reinvested in the charity, so no dividend, so no real way of making money, which to be honest, isn't the point of a charity in the first place (at least in the UK)<br/> <br/> As to language - if there is a linux ARM port ...

<t>The Raspberry Pi does have a camera port on it, but getting a camera for it may be difficult unless you rip apart a smartphone...camera manufacturers usually only sell in large quantities.<br/> <br/> Main difficulty will be coding the video stream fast enough and small enough to send it over wifi...