[ale] emulating a pi?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for that link.  I scanned over the procedure and it looks very interesting.  I may try that out before buying one of the devices.

Sincerely,

Ron


Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:

><http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/>
>
>
>On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
>atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This may sound like an odd question, but I'm wondering if you can
>emulate
>> a raspberry pi.  At the moment, I just want to learn how the software
>side
>> of things works.  I don't have a need for the hardware at the moment,
>and
>> buying the pi and power supply and case and memory card and usb hub
>and
>> wifi dongle, etc. would probably cost me over $ 100.  I know I can
>run any
>> standard programming language like python or c on my linux or windows
>> computer, but I'm also wondering if I can do things like emulating
>the
>> scratch language and emulating things like the the gpio ports and
>lights on
>> the computer screen.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
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Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.

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