On 01/11/2012 09:03 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > The whole purpose of PC's is that they are generic to use.
That is also the purpose of the Arduino. That's why they open-sourced it's hardware design. > I remember > how in past decision taking bought low clocked junk for big price - > much against the wish of the sysadmins who wanted a PC for every > student exclusively. Outdated slow junk is not interesting > to students. Now you and i might like that CPU as it's under $1, but > to them it's just 70Mhz, factor 500 slower than their home PC single > core > is. What impresses is if you got something that can beat their own > machine at home. > Wrong. What impresses students is teaching something they didn't already know, or showing them how to do something new. Using baking soda and vinegar to build a volcano, is very low-tech, but it still impresses students of all ages (even in this modern Apple i-everything world) and it's done with ingredients just about everyone already has in their kitchen. Show them sodium acetate crystallizing out of a supersaturated solution, and their heads practically explode. Also very low-tech. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
