<div dir="ltr">AND the price of the Pi B+ just dropped to $25. It will show at MCM as such in a few days<div><br></div><div>KO4Lloyd</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Jason KG4WSV via aprssig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Max Harper via aprssig<br>
<<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> You might be waiting a while on the CHIP computer. And the price will be<br>
> more than $9 since the CHIP has no built-in support for video.<br>
<br>
</span>IIRC it does have composite built in.<br>
<br>
But it is kickstarter vaporware, not a real thing yet. maybe it will<br>
exist in a year. I hope this isn't one of those that fails to see the<br>
light of day, but $9 seems a bit optimistic.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> The Raspberry<br>
> Pi model 2B is hard to beat for $35 dollars, is available now, has a lot of<br>
> support and<br>
> does have composite video built-in.<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>composite video is supremely unimpressive for a computer display,<br>
unless maybe you've got a Commodore 64 still lying around. IMO it'll<br>
take dedicated software development especially for a small screen to<br>
make it useable. Even xastir with the small screen build doesn't<br>
looks so good at NTSC resolution.<br>
<br>
If there is an APRS app (that runs under linux) that works well on a<br>
low res display I'd like to hear about it. Unfortunately modern<br>
software developers tend to use ecosystems that assume a bajillion<br>
pixels are available.<br>
<br>
-Jason<br>
kg4wsv<br>
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