What about a local "Raspberry Pi User Group" ?

General
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At the SFSConf last Friday it was really interesting to hear about Bobo (
http://www.slideshare.net/SFScon/bobo-sfscon-abrahamssonfinal2) a first
Raspberry-Pi Cluster.
Will anybody be interested in build up a small User Group around this smart
object?
If Yes, please write back to this list!

Here are Raspberry-Pi Cluster details on the web!
http://megarpi.inf.unibz.it/

diego

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Hi,
sounds very interesting to build up a small group. However, I think it
could be open for other "smart objects" too (like Arduino) and not just
limited to the Raspberry Pi.

Ciao,
Ingo

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Am I smelling new flame wars? Raspberry Pi vs. Arduino :wink: Like in the
good old times of GNU/Emacs vs. VI(M)? :slight_smile:

I add Hannes Paswualini in CC, because he is part of the "Secret Media
Lab" which is a community of sound designers creating creative art
applications using Arduino as well. Maybe Hannes and the others would
like to join!

Best regards
Patrick

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Hi,

only for information :slight_smile:

there is a small Arduino user group in bolzano. We meet one time at
month. The moderator of the group is Uwe Felderer (mail: uwe dot
federer at dnet dot it), hi is a moderator of the arduino forum, too.
Who is interested on speak about arduino, please contact Uwe or me. I
will post the next meeting on the mailinglist.

bye
Marco

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I don't think so. The comunity around (the original, microcontroller based)
Arduinos are more hardware/soldering/tinkering/artsy kind of people.

The Rasperry Pi people are more into home servers, media servers,
install-Linux-everywhere people.

... and vi won, anyway :wink:

What the Unibz did, is IMHO a bit different. They made that cluster
mainly for teaching about distributed programming and stuff (if I get
the scope of the project correctly), so it has a much more software
kind of purpose. I don't know if that fits with the other two comunities,
I guess not so much.

Even if the Rasperry is in there, they would fit more into a
distributed computed, HPC comunity. It is true that the cluster
is not really competitive, but I think it is a very nice simulation
of a larger cluster. While a single Xeon server could probably beat
BOBO, the many Rasperry boards introduce the overhead of code distribution
and comunication that is the effectivly the hard part in disctributed
computing. So basically I'm sure it is a very nice thing to test
distributed algos.

If somebody is interested in some sort of comunity around HPC I'd
like to join - still I guess this is even more exotic than the
other two comunities mentioned above :frowning:

Bye,
Chris.

PS: are we sure that we should not write in Italian, are there really
that many people here that don't at least read Italian? Maybe we should
do a poll?

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Cool thanks a lot! We'll totally get in touch with him!

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Hi Marco!

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+ 1 for Chris // +1 per Chris

Anyhow: connections between RPi and Arduino are allready a fact, where each of the boards keep its own capability.
Some picked-up URLs:
http://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/raspberry-pi-to-arduino-shields-connection-bridge
With Raspbian we got: sudo apt-get install arduino

diego

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