Super Cheap Computers, Really!

After more than three months waiting, I finally got my $9.00 C. H. I. P. Meanwhile, I also bought a Rasspery Pi Zero V1.3 at 99 cents!

Here is the photo with banana:

After initial set up, both are booting up like a charm.

And with the old friend:

Raspberry Pi Controlled Cricut to cut SVG files

Raspberry Pi with 512M RAM loaded with 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img on a Lexar 2G Micro SD (Class unknown)

First of all I want to test it out by cutting a pie in svg format. I got this logo from wikipedia.


Here is my set up, from my laptop I use UltraVNC Viewer to remote to Raspberry PI. The executable and svg files can be downed from WinSCP. In stead of using a real blade, I am using a pen to plot a Raspberry on a blank paper:



And here is the result:

You can watch the whole procedure here:

Cute ASCII

How do you like this:

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          '''  \   `-._.  ---^_)))
                `-._ )))       ```

and this 

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        /                  (    (      ,\       
       ;                    \    '-..-'/ ;      
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Check out this site. 

APC

All right. Let's get it started.
Got a email and it says "APC Goes on Sale through Newegg.com in US and Canada". It runs a custom Android system. The board is pretty neat. Looks it has a lot of potentials. Doesn't know if it supports WI-FI..