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Raspberry Pi seems ideal for people who want to build Linux from scratch, including tinkering and compiling kernels - the known set of hardware and number of people running it helps. With a bit of luck this might help filter people into low level development. (Until they get yelled at for making a mistake or having a different opinion or having a child.)

Some of the projects look amazing, and could potentially get picked up commercially:

(http://hackaday.com/2012/11/01/one-button-audiobook-player-m...)

Audible should look into a vision-impaired friendly hardware player for audio books.



For more info on the proprietary 'vision-impaired friendly hardware players' available free from the US Library of Congress:

> http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/readingdisabilit...

From here I found a list of many of the devices specifically intended for use by people with disabilities:

> http://www.daisy.org/tools/hplayback


Have you actually compiled anything on it? It's impressively slow. Ten-line C programs take 2-3 seconds with both GCC and Clang.




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