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by abishur
Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:33 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Favorite e-reader and management software?
Replies: 12
Views: 4386

Re: Favorite e-reader and management software?

... I thought it would be fun to get some input on what e-readers (if any) y'all like.<br/> <br/> I finally boarded the e-reader train and got the Kindle Touch.  While I like the screen size, the navigation, and the whole e-ink screen thing. I was disappointed that I can't view the books on the ...
by jamodio
Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:35 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Shouldn't we just give the foundation a break now?
Replies: 96
Views: 14814

Re: Shouldn't we just give the foundation a break now?

... on the kids the spark of curiosity, innovation and entrepreneurship.<br/> <br/> <br/> Dare I suggest that giving each child access to an iPad, Kindle or somesuch - fully portable and a completeb package - and the appropriate applications/texts would be more appropriate to the majority of students/subjects. ...
by nick.mccloud
Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:15 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Shouldn't we just give the foundation a break now?
Replies: 96
Views: 14814

Re: Shouldn't we just give the foundation a break now?

Now there's a cracking combo - a Pi and a Kindle - one of the hardest things with learning to do anything on a computer is if the tutorial is on the same computer - unless you have two monitors. So a Pi for coding and a Kindle for the instructions - a very productive combo.
by Lynbarn
Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:58 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Shouldn't we just give the foundation a break now?
Replies: 96
Views: 14814

Re: Shouldn't we just give the foundation a break now?

... so as a general purpose computer, you COULD run appropriate software on a 'Pi)<br/> <br/> Dare I suggest that giving each child access to an iPad, Kindle or somesuch - fully portable and a completeb package - and the appropriate applications/texts would be more appropriate to the majority of students/subjects. ...
by SN
Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:14 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Science Fiction
Replies: 82
Views: 17635

Re: Science Fiction

... Sons.<br/> <br/> The 'realness' of the physics and science in AC Clarkes books is good for me too.<br/> <br/> <br/> I started reading 2001 on my Kindle App yesterday.  Got to the bit where there is a description of something called a Newspad - recognised it instantly as an iPad - but this was ...
by RaTTuS
Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:52 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Power supply unit
Replies: 7
Views: 1778

Re: Power supply unit

the Kindle lead should be fine,

and as the A's are not in the wild [well neither are the B's] power is still unknown
by Jongoleur
Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:45 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Power supply unit
Replies: 7
Views: 1778

Re: Power supply unit

<t>thebuell said: <br/> <br/> <br/> I think my Kindle 3 keyboard's power supply unit which has a micro-USB connector on it could work on powering the Pi. It's rated at 5v 0.85 amps, it should be sufficient to run the model B. Am I correct?<br/> ...
by Dinosaur
Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:10 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: STICKY: Pictorial Buying Guide for the Raspberry Pi
Replies: 151
Views: 306885

Re: Pictorial Buying Guide

... plug/sockets are equal, they should be but they are not. For example with the cables supplied with the following, samsung tab, HTC desire and Kindle, the HTC cable will be loose in the kindle and very hard to plug into the samsung TAB and the samsung cable will not plug into a kindle. The ...
by thebuell
Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:29 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Power supply unit
Replies: 7
Views: 1778

Re: Power supply unit

<t>I think my Kindle 3 keyboard's power supply unit which has a micro-USB connector on it could work on powering the Pi. It's rated at 5v 0.85 amps, it should be sufficient to run the model B. Am I correct?<br/> <br/> BTW, with the ...
by poing
Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:11 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Pi In Space!
Replies: 56
Views: 16061

Re: Pi In Space!

... GPS tracker. It would be housed in a floating container. I think it would be good to have screen that the camera could photograph, perhaps like a Kindle screen, that would not get washed out in sunlight. It might also be useful to interface some sensors for temperature, air pressure, GPS coordinates ...
by abishur
Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:04 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: STICKY: Pictorial Buying Guide for the Raspberry Pi
Replies: 151
Views: 306885

STICKY: Pictorial Buying Guide for the Raspberry Pi

... note, though, that using several USB devices or working on intensive tasks will draw much more current. If you already have a micro USB PSU (for a Kindle, an iPhone or a similar device), you can find out if it gives enough power by looking at the power label on the device itself. Look for the word ...
by Charles25
Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:02 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What can be learned from all this launch energy?
Replies: 4
Views: 2305

Re: What can be learned from all this launch energy?

... GPS tracker. It would be housed in a floating container. I think it would be good to have screen that the camera could photograph, perhaps like a Kindle screen, that would not get washed out in sunlight. It might also be useful to interface some sensors for temperature, air pressure, GPS coordinates ...
by Joe Schmoe
Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:55 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: FEDORA ARM INSTALLER -- Problem
Replies: 86
Views: 16984

Re: FEDORA ARM INSTALLER -- Problem

... have already made fortunes catering to that market.  Now, the marketplace is actually shifting away from MS/Apple and more towards things like the Kindle - where we are trying to get people for whom Windows or Mac are too technical (and well beyond their needs).<br/> <br/> See, as I see it, the ...
by crundy
Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:44 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Ordered something else to fill the time
Replies: 65
Views: 17686

Re: Ordered something else to fill the time

I bought an archos 7" android tablet on offer for £99. Having good fun hacking it up. I'm currently working on modifying the status bar to make it transparent because it was cutting off the first line on every page in the Kindle app.
by Joe Schmoe
Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:35 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Exactly what is a Pi?
Replies: 65
Views: 12995

Re: Exactly what is a Pi?

... the Pi.  (This is in regards to the "People think it is a $35 replacement for their desktop" thread)<br/> <br/> It is more like a smartphone or a Kindle or even your toaster or microwave than it is like a computer (as most people interpret that term).  Maybe we should have a contest to come up ...
by poing
Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:10 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Digital Geology
Replies: 54
Views: 17245

Re: Digital Geology

... have I misunderstood what you are proposing? Do you mean a local connection via WiFi?<br/> <br/> I'm very impressed by the Sony eReader screen. My Kindle is not touch sensitive. This sort of screen would be great for field use since you could have a virtual keyboard. Do you know if you can programme ...
by Prometheus
Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:42 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: What ARM devices do you have already?
Replies: 32
Views: 9021

Re: What ARM devices do you have already?

<t>Off of the top of my head;<br/> <br/> Game Boy Advance SP<br/> <br/> Nintendo DS<br/> <br/> Game Boy micro<br/> <br/> Pandora<br/> <br/> Amazon Kindle<br/> <br/> Nintendo 3DS<br/> <br/> Also, someone gave me one of those officially-licensed Mega Drive multi-game handhelds, which, rather than ...
by grumpyoldgit
Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:27 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: New logo?
Replies: 49
Views: 10395

Re: New logo?

... their respective products. You cannot even walk into Poundland without being bombarded by products which say that they are for the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, etc, etc</t>
by bjs
Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:52 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Digital Geology
Replies: 54
Views: 17245

Re: Digital Geology

... have I misunderstood what you are proposing? Do you mean a local connection via WiFi?<br/> <br/> I'm very impressed by the Sony eReader screen. My Kindle is not touch sensitive. This sort of screen would be great for field use since you could have a virtual keyboard. Do you know if you can programme ...
by Kernel
Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:44 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: What ARM devices do you have already?
Replies: 32
Views: 9021

Re: What ARM devices do you have already?

... - just had a look and it seems nice <br/> <br/> as for HP Touchpad - damn you!! I tried to get one too but they sold out so quickly - waiting for Kindle Fire to become available in the UK now</t>
by jamesh
Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:43 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: The Pi User - contributor request!
Replies: 26
Views: 10072

Re: The Pi User - contributor request!

As long as there is a Kindle version - fill 'yer boots!
by meltwater
Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:04 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: MagPi – Raspberry Pi Magazine
Replies: 262
Views: 53964

Re: MagPi – Raspberry Pi Magazine

... on ereaders too - separate compact version dropping backgrounds or something?).  Again this can probably be delivered through RSS and through kindle (anyone know how it works on kindle for magazines?).<br/> <br/> Note:<br/> <br/> Producing a proper printed magazine is a nice idea but costs ...
by bjs
Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:18 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Digital Geology
Replies: 54
Views: 17245

Re: Digital Geology

... need to worry about the cost of the display.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> @RMW5<br/> <br/> While out cycling it occurred to me to upgrade my Kindle to a colour version and use the old screen for this project. So I looked it up on Amazon and the colour version does not seem to be available ...
by alexeames
Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:40 pm
Forum: Python
Topic: Best book to learn python?
Replies: 17
Views: 17637

Re: Best book to learn python?

... <br/> At the moment I am doing online tutorials and reading a couple of the free links in this thread. Also managed to get a PDF onto my kindle of one of the titles (invent with python, I think). It's going OK so far, but I haven't given it a lot of time yet.<br/> <br/> The only thing ...
by meltwater
Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:55 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: The Pi User - contributor request!
Replies: 26
Views: 10072

Re: The Pi User - contributor request!

... <br/> 3. Published eMagazine: Quite often this would be the easiest for a lot of people, possible formats are generated pdf, also if possible in kindle format (I guess they support automatic downloading of each issue too), also CBR comic book format (zipped jpg) is easy enough to produce.<br/> ...

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