High school student needed to port Maxima to Raspberry Pi
Subject: High school student needed to port Maxima to Raspberry Pi
From: Henry Baker
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:58:18 -0700
[I'm not connected with this organization in any way; I just think that this
is a very cool little machine.]
Raspberry Pi has a programming contest for kids <18 with $1000 first prize.
Contest just began 7/7 and ends Sept 1, 2012 at 9am British Summer Time.
Maxima should be able to run using the $35 Raspberry Pi machine as a server.
It has 256MBytes of memory and uses an SD card for persistent memory, but
with a USB port you can also have a hard disk drive. It has a LAN port.
The chip is a Broadcom BCM2835 with ARM1176JZFS complete with floating point
& runs at 700MHz.
Any ARM compiler that supports ARMv6 will be suitable.
There is a downloadable emulator, so you don't even have to actually have the
machine in hand in order to play.
The Linux is Debian.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1531
Extra credit: utilize the HDMI display capability for Maxima plots.