Technobabble

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized $25-$35 ARM GNU/Linux computer that can be plugged into a TV and a keyboard. Here's a picture of the connectors on the device. The device is stil under development but here's a rendering fo what it will look like. Should be an interesting alternative to Arduinos but make take a while before it has a good community around it. There's already a lot of interest and activity on the forums . Looking forward to being able to purchase it.

Recently the Arduino IDE installation refused to start on my Mac with the following exception: uncaught exception in main method: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Users/arun/arduino-0015/Arduio15.app/Contents/Resources/java/librxtxSerial.jnilib: no suitable image found. Did find: /Users/arun/arduino-0015/Arduino15.app/Contents/Resources/java/librxtxSerial.jnilib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper Rather bizarre error and as far as I know, I hadn't mucked around with any settings. According to the Arduino forum it had something to with the Java version and suggested giving priority to Java 5 over Java 6. However this didn't work on my setup. Eventually I just downloaded the Java 6 compatible version of librxrxSerial.jnilib and replaced it in the package contents of the Arduino app. This fixed the problem.