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		crimsonalucard on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raspberry Pi Official Case Don't expose GPIO directly. Soldering stuff on it can potentially ruin the phone. Have it be connectible to a breakout board and let that board be hackable. Also let me connect my phone to a monitor and keyboard and use the thing as my development platform. All in one. Maybe a modular breakout board connectible to the IO port would be a better startup idea. I've never programmed for mobile devices but are the operating systems open enough to let it be possible to write a drivers for these things?

monocasa on June 16, 2015 | [–]

I'm hoping that we'll have that with Ara. It's PCI-E like bus means you could have a GPIO breakout module for dirt cheap.

pjc50 on June 17, 2015 | [–]

modular breakout board connectible to the IO port would be a better startup idea

Android IOIO: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12633

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