IIRC, I haven't seen many posts here about this great and cheap programming platform (it only cost about $35, https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/ ).

Let me tell you a bit about my summer holidays adventures. On the 1st of August I decided to buy a Pi3 and install a light version of Linux on it (OpenSuse). This has allowed me to debug some aarch64 code (Unfortunately, Android Studio is still in the 'Stone Age' with regards to native programming/debugging).

At first things did look quite weird as everything ran very slowly. Then I realized, this little beast is consuming almost no power and still can be programmed and offer some sort of programming challenge/joy.

Since then, I've spent quite some time to learn how things nowadays revolve around the small-credit card computer concept/revolution. You too, will be just as amazed! It can do almost everything you need to do nowadays, at a small (snail) pace though.

Now that you're asking, yeah i did manage to port NspireX (kArmTI/Nspiroid's clone) emulator to both arm32 and arm64 platforms on the PI3.  As expected, both run slowly. An experiment just for the sake (hell) of it.  In a couple of years time it will run smoothly for sure (Those hardware geeks never rest and keep on improving things).

I'm just curious, what about you? Have you already bought a Raspberry pi(3) programming platform? What were your first temptations?

Have a say and join the programmer's therapy group.

A nice day, wherever you are.

I've always thought the Pi computers were a neat idea, but I've never owned one. I'd like to get a small PC as a media pc to hook up to the TV for streaming video. I can do this with my main pc, but it's huge and puts out a lot of heat. Not sure if the Pi has enough horsepower for something like that though. The other thing is that I'm not familiar with linux at all, (isn't that what most Pi's run?) so that'd be a learning curve if I were to consider it.