Sector67 member Monty spent way too much time setting up a Raspberry Pi to run Node.js (which happens to include a handy serial library to enable webserver level Arduino communications) to be overlooked:<\/p>\n
My local hackerspace\u00a0Sector67<\/a>\u00a0held a 24 hour build fest<\/a>\u00a0this weekend. Late last week in preparation for the event a few of us purchased some\u00a0Raspberry Pi<\/a>‘s. \u00a0If you’re not familiar with the Pi, it’s a credit card sized ARM based computer with a USB port, Ethernet port, GPU, \u00a0HDMI and Composite video out that runs Linux for about $35. \u00a0You can read more about it at the link above but the “overall real world performance is something like a 300MHZ Pentium 2, only with much, much swankier graphics.”<\/p>\n I bought 2 with the plan to install nodejs on them. \u00a0I figured it’d be a super cheap way to create a web based controller people could use in other projects. \u00a0I’m happy to say it only took me about 3 days to make this a reality. \u00a0However it was pretty much 3 days of frustration that I’d like to keep the rest of you from having to experience so here’s the scoop.<\/p>\n
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