{"id":8371,"date":"2017-03-14T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/for-pi-day-3-14-looking-back-on-5-years-of-raspberry-pi-tinkering\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:32:07","slug":"for-pi-day-3-14-looking-back-on-5-years-of-raspberry-pi-tinkering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/for-pi-day-3-14-looking-back-on-5-years-of-raspberry-pi-tinkering\/","title":{"rendered":"For Pi Day (3.14) – Looking Back on 5 years of Raspberry Pi Tinkering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/b> Not by me, thank God! <\/b>No, the five years of Rasp Pi maso-tinkering were done by Thorin Klowsowski. His report appears here: <\/b>

<\/b> http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/what-i-ve-learned-from-tinkering-with-the-raspberry-pi-1793236686<\/a><\/b>

<\/b> In the second and third paragraph, he confirmed all my suspicions:<\/b>

<\/b> The Raspberry Pi is far, far away from being as user friendly as a PC or Mac. That\u2019s a feature, not a bug… <\/i><\/b>Before hobbyists latched onto the Raspberry Pi, it was a computer for learning how to code targeted mainly at kids. Since then, the appeal has broadened, but it\u2019s still impossible for a project to \u201cjust work\u201d out of the box. You will have to tweak something, dig into the command line, or spend a few hours buried in an obscure internet forum to find solutions to problems that only you seem to be having. You will slam your head against the wall, yell a little, and throw your Raspberry Pi at least once for every project you attempt to make.<\/span><\/b><\/i>

<\/i><\/b> I told you so. <\/b>

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Not by me, thank God! No, the five years of Rasp Pi maso-tinkering were done by Thorin Klowsowski. His report appears here: http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/what-i-ve-learned-from-tinkering-with-the-raspberry-pi-1793236686 In the second and third paragraph, he confirmed all my suspicions: The Raspberry Pi is far, far away from being as user friendly as a PC or Mac. That\u2019s a feature, not … Continue reading “For Pi Day (3.14) – Looking Back on 5 years of Raspberry Pi Tinkering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}