Raspberry Pi

[doodab]

What it needs is some sort of inter schools programming competition. Each school needs to create a robot (that runs on a single pi) to play some game or another and they can face off over the internet. There could be a separate competition for clusters with a sensible limit on the number of nodes, say 8.

I'll put up £500 cash prize if a few others chip in to make it worth winning. I'm sure we could find some commercial sponsors. AtW?

[AtW]

You know what the FTSE is, and NASDAQ, you know what RBS is and you know what JPM is as you replied to a thread on the company stock code last week.

It's common knowledge for a business - big banks and big stock exchanges.

Say I know names of model ranges for many car manufacturers but I've got no clue how certain elements inside their engines are called - that's specialist knowledge that it not required for successful business operation unless it is directly related to such things, ie - car dealership but even there CEO won't always know such intricate details.

[AtW]

I'll put up £500 cash prize if a few others chip in to make it worth winning.
I'm sure we could find some commercial sponsors. AtW?

I am in so long as robots get guns and have to fight against each other

[doodab]

I am in so long as robots get guns and have to fight against each other

I was thinking more like chess or go but some sort of multiplayer doom type game could work.

[minestrone]

You know I was pondering a messaging competition, pis in a network, see who writes the code that serves up the most messages to each other.

I think I could take you all.

[AtW]

You know I was pondering a messaging competition, pis in a network, see who writes the code that serves up the most messages to each other. I think I could take you all.

Yes, you do that.

Meanwhile I'll be running real business...

[minestrone]

Yes, you do that.

Meanwhile I'll be running real business...

I'll write some code, think I can get decent effort.

Let's get a spec on a message, XML, see who is the better programmer.

[minestrone]

<rasberryPI>rasberryPI</rasberryPI>

[AtW]

<rasberryPI>rasberryPI</rasberryPI>

No XML version, no encoding data, no schema?

[doodab]

No XML version, no encoding data, no schema?

And no 'p's either....