Thanks Rees. I also thought that the Mister clones name was a windup at first... glad its being changed to something more sensible. I have MISTer's in both my arcade cabs (hori and vert) and love them. The price rises on the setups have been a real ball breaker when encouraging people to look at the system recently though, so great that we're finally seeing a genuinely affordable option. I've got my desktop MISTer on an Ironclad ITX board in a nice neat HPC case, and just received a lovely 8bitdo C64 styled keyboard to plug into it to add to the retro micro computer feel!
That FPGA GB looks amazing, really tempting stuff indeed. Also, seeing that Mavica, it reminds me I need to use mine again soonish. Great cameras, but a bit bulky if you also take a 10 pack of disks with you on a trip 😅.
Sure, Rees, blame the chair! Doom the Dark Ages looks promising, but I didn't complete Eternal (not because it's bad, life got in the way). Very much looking forward to Talos DLC too. The Perfect Dark announcement completely passed me by somehow. I loved the original. Great video, as always. Enjoy the weekend.
On one hand, I agree the name Mr. Pi *is* confusing, and also brings to mind dodgy "WhateverPi" boards, which isn't a great look indeed. On the other hand, I *do* think the name is clever. It's got "Mister" in the name, as has been said. And from what I understand, the original DE10 was intended as an educational "learning FPGA" board, kinda like the original Raspberry Pi was intended to be a "learning computers" board. I can totally understand the desire to use the name. And I can totally understand people's aversion to it.
Calling something SomethingPi just sounds like an opportunistic and desperate attempt to get some of that Raspberry Pi action. For workalikes of the RPi range, it is somewhat excusable, but just now I noticed a crowdfunding campaign involving a smartwatch-like device called "HealthyPi Move", containing a Nordic Semiconductor microcontroller, pretty far removed from the core RPi range and only vaguely similar to the Pi Pico range. That sounds unimaginative if not outright needy on the attention-seeking front. I agree with Rees: if you've done something substantial and distinctive, why not choose a name that reflects that achievement, rather than falling into line behind a family of products that will become unfashionable and tired one day?
Unfortunately, if you want your project to get covered by tech bloggers you have to put "Pi" in the name, even if no Pi is used. There are often much better, faster, cheaper, microcontrollers to use but no one cares unless it's a Pi PICO. Pi is like the Apple of the dev board world.
It’s should be called Mister Bond. As it’s a shadowy agent pretending to be someone/something else and getting away with it. And if you want to stay in the pastry world (for whatever reason) at least call it Mister Cake as it’s the superior brother of a humble Pi.
Ok hear me out. Throw the name "Mister Pi" into the rubbish bin of history and say hello to its brand new, streamlined, wacky but approachable, kid friendly "Mister Poo".
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Thanks Rees. I also thought that the Mister clones name was a windup at first... glad its being changed to something more sensible. I have MISTer's in both my arcade cabs (hori and vert) and love them. The price rises on the setups have been a real ball breaker when encouraging people to look at the system recently though, so great that we're finally seeing a genuinely affordable option. I've got my desktop MISTer on an Ironclad ITX board in a nice neat HPC case, and just received a lovely 8bitdo C64 styled keyboard to plug into it to add to the retro micro computer feel!
That FPGA GB looks amazing, really tempting stuff indeed. Also, seeing that Mavica, it reminds me I need to use mine again soonish. Great cameras, but a bit bulky if you also take a 10 pack of disks with you on a trip 😅.
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Windows ME. Oh good lord! 🤣🤣🤣
That purple FPGA Gameboy PCB. I want it and could care less about a Gameboy! Yep, put it in a clear case.
Sure, Rees, blame the chair!
Doom the Dark Ages looks promising, but I didn't complete Eternal (not because it's bad, life got in the way). Very much looking forward to Talos DLC too. The Perfect Dark announcement completely passed me by somehow. I loved the original.
Great video, as always. Enjoy the weekend.
On one hand, I agree the name Mr. Pi *is* confusing, and also brings to mind dodgy "WhateverPi" boards, which isn't a great look indeed.
On the other hand, I *do* think the name is clever.
It's got "Mister" in the name, as has been said. And from what I understand, the original DE10 was intended as an educational "learning FPGA" board, kinda like the original Raspberry Pi was intended to be a "learning computers" board. I can totally understand the desire to use the name. And I can totally understand people's aversion to it.
Calling something SomethingPi just sounds like an opportunistic and desperate attempt to get some of that Raspberry Pi action. For workalikes of the RPi range, it is somewhat excusable, but just now I noticed a crowdfunding campaign involving a smartwatch-like device called "HealthyPi Move", containing a Nordic Semiconductor microcontroller, pretty far removed from the core RPi range and only vaguely similar to the Pi Pico range. That sounds unimaginative if not outright needy on the attention-seeking front.
I agree with Rees: if you've done something substantial and distinctive, why not choose a name that reflects that achievement, rather than falling into line behind a family of products that will become unfashionable and tired one day?
I am beyond excited for Perfect Dark. Its like they are taking the likes of Deus Ex and Mirror's Edge and adding them to PD.
Never really had any problems with win Me
Unfortunately, if you want your project to get covered by tech bloggers you have to put "Pi" in the name, even if no Pi is used. There are often much better, faster, cheaper, microcontrollers to use but no one cares unless it's a Pi PICO. Pi is like the Apple of the dev board world.
That Mr Pi is a confusing name!
Another great ramble though.
It’s should be called Mister Bond. As it’s a shadowy agent pretending to be someone/something else and getting away with it.
And if you want to stay in the pastry world (for whatever reason) at least call it Mister Cake as it’s the superior brother of a humble Pi.
Ok hear me out. Throw the name "Mister Pi" into the rubbish bin of history and say hello to its brand new, streamlined, wacky but approachable, kid friendly "Mister Poo".
nothing wrong with ME it works fine, think it got more hate than it deserved.
FIRST COMMENT YEEEAAHH!!!! :D
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@@ShishakliAus It's a milestone for me! ⬆🔺🏁🏳🌈🌎🍰🍺🍹🍗🧀
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