Looking forward to the screens becoming available. I have already order a HDMIPi through Kickstarter, but a low cost small screen sounds promising. A touch screen would be even better as that would open up a new way to interface with apps written for the Raspberry Pi.

I’m very happy to here there is a possibility about the screens.
Hope they come available very soon! Would be great to get some more infos!
cheers

For me wayland is going to be a users first time experiences game changer. I often find the speed of x a real shame. I guess this is why the foundation is spending so much time on this.

best. post. ever.

I’d really enjoy seeing quarterly our monthly interviews like this. With due respect to other content on this blog, the information Gordon just shared is much more relevant to me than a lot of the posts here.

One answer that didn’t really carry any meaning was that of the android question. Is there a transcript available? I’m not sure what the reason for not supporting android was.

I would be happy to do another one (and I’m sure Matt wouldn’t mind turning up for an hour to record it) if you’ve got any questions.

Currently I’m out of questions so the video would be pointless!

Android isn’t on the target because we’ve only got enough resources (engineers) to support a single operating system. Also it’s a fairly closed OS and therefore doesn’t work out very well with the educational aspects of Pi. Finally it’s not that simple to port existing Linux applications to Android which means you don’t get all the goodness of linux (think Scratch, python libraries, mathematica etc. it would just be harder)

Are there any roadmap for the release of wayland on Pi, are we talking H1 2014?

Poor Jonathan – another name-check opportunity missed (when the subject of USB development came up).

Liz, Eben, maybe it is time to sing out the individual praises for all of the Pi Team at the Foundation?

It’s still Top Secret for me, the film wont load so I can’t see it.

Great stuff – really useful for the geek community to find out what’s in the offing.

Are there any plans to do a similar session with Head of Educational Development to find out what the plans for developing the Pi’s educational use given that schools will need to buy stuff in May/June ready for the Computing curriculum start in September?

Yes, thank you for such an interesting update.
I have one question: can you give any indication as to the likely price of the displays?

Was hoping to hear about the progress of Wayland, felt a little like the question was dodged here. Hope to hear more about it in the not too distant future.

I know my idea is a long shot and going beyond the current profile. But since the Raspi community is so established now, could you guys think about high-end version of Raspberry?

The idea may seem odd but I am raising this since I see absolutely unique opportunity stemming out from Raspberry.
All is due to the Broadcom BCM7445 UltraHD SoC. The BCM7445 is the most advanced next generation media chip but it should have very reasonable price since it is intended for set-top boxes. Now since you have unique relation to Broadcom via the current hardware, this should facilitate the development of the high-end version.

Miniature computer based on the BCM7445 chip, which has quad-core ARM, 4K UHD decoding and HDMI 2.0 interface, would be outsmarting anything which is available now, by offering e.g. UHD media center. It would make accessible full capability of modern UHD TV’s (which will be common shortly). Such media computer which would surely attract huge attention and bring advanced users and developers to the community, they would not mind paying bit more for a unique hardware. I think Broadcom would be interested too in this idea, they are recently very active in developing support for the chip as can be seen from patches they are recently providing to the Linux kernel.

Hi, great post and some insights there…

Wondering about the list of projects that the foundation is supporting?

Are there current or future projects that you’re looking for developers for as I’d like to see if my skills and interests align with any projects you’re funding or looking to fund?

Thanks.

A MINIMALI(Z/S)ED VERSION OF RASPBIAN – YAY!!! Oh, sorry, got a bit carried away there, I meant to type in tiny little letters, “a minimali(z/s)ed version of raspbian” :lol: 1.2 GB is still pretty big, though, and I would rather see the smallest possible version that still has aptitude so that our various desired individual fluff can be apt-get installed as needed. I believe that can be done in under 150 MB with no X or other GUI, or any of the other niceties. Please consider this if at all possible as it makes a bunch of very educational things much more feasible, such as teaching how to build a distro by adding instead of subtracting (people tend to make more mistakes subtracting or dividing than adding or multiplying – must be that silly twos-complement stuff! ;) ).

People asking for Android need to consider what the Pi is not meant to be: yet-another means for corporations to suck our personal information out from under us. Android is not a happy experience when not run on a mobile device (why do you think Chromebooks don’t run Android?), which means something with a touchscreen. Yes, you can “run” it on a desktop-style system, as in execute the code, but it’s not designed for that kind of use at all. We already have RaspBMC and OpenELEC for media consumption and a perfectly usable (if a bit slow on the uptake occasionally) GUI with tens of thousands of applications ready and waiting to be used or installed. Besides, which version of Android do you want, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, and which value of “x” do you want? There’s no such thing as just “Android”, and hardware requirements increase well beyond what the Pi can support as the Android version increases beyond early 3.x.

Other than that, more interviews with Gordon please, as he seems to be the messenger of good things to come (e.g., not one, but two GPU-direct, DSI-connected displays! Would it be looking a gift horse in the mouth to ask for a touchscreen option? :D <- horse's big, grinning mouth). Keep up the great work!

Great news on the displays.
I don’t quite get the thing on 2GB SD cards, you probably won’t be able to buy them that small before long and they seem to cost as much as 4Gb anyway.