The Raspberry Pi thread
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    The Raspberry Pi team are looking for a logo for their little Linux box!

    Design them a logo!
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/2011/08/logo-competition/

    Competition closes on 30-Sep.

    Quote:

    No obscenity, and especially nothing incorporating pedobear or goatse man, please! Or if you do, please make it extra-humorous – we won’t use it, but it might afford us a giggle. (If you do not know what either pedobear or goatse man are, I encourage you not to Google them. Really.)
  • mugsymugsy
    How about a big spunking... AWWWW.
  • mattmatt
    A very interesting thread that, even the irate designers!
  • elyely
    I really want one to play with though, a whole machine for peanuts!
  • mattmatt
    I want one for MAME and movie playback

    Also, I'm submitting a logo.
  • DrNefarioDrNefario
    I would love a nice little low-level device to (pretend to) tinker with, but I'm worried about the linuxosity.
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    But if you brick it, you can just re-flash it.
  • mattmatt
    I've posted some of my Raspberry Pi logo designs on dribbble:
    http://dribbble.com/search?q=Raspberry+Pi+matt+sephton

    Here are just the images, the thoughts behind each one are on dribbble...

    05 Raspberry Pie Cake Stand
    image

    07 Raspberry Pi
    image

    08 Pi Parent & Child
    image

    10 RP Neon Tube
    image

    11 RP Concentric
    image

    13 RP Spectacle Smile
    image

    I spent a couple of days on it after which I submitted a total of 15 logos from all my explorations and ideas.
    Post edited by matt at 2011-10-03 17:02:55
  • OnePunchMickeyOnePunchMickey
    I like 07 best out of those. 08 is good too.
  • mattmatt
    07 is my favourite, too.

    Though I have a soft spot for 13 in a silly sort of way.
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    Good man! - Gotta be in it to win it! :)

    I like what you did with #5
    Post edited by Sir_LANsalot at 2011-10-03 17:30:03
  • morganmorgan
    Lovely work Matt :)
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    I would maybe combine the raspberry of 7 and the Pi of 8
  • mattmatt
    Too late now deadline has passed but thanks for the feedback.

    And for the headsup on this competition - had great fun doing them regardless of the outcome.
  • mugsymugsy
    If you don't win, I can knobble someone for you.

    Probably the bloke 2 doors up, he's only 5ft 4.
  • jon_eggjon_egg
    matt said:

    07 is my favourite, too.



    07's the best.. it'll be that or one like it that wins. The others are maybe a little too fussy - 08 reminds me a bit of the old PPP logo :

    image
  • DastardlyDastardly
    I'm not a fan of gradients in logos, but I do like 7 :)

    I also like 5.
    Post edited by Dastardly at 2011-10-04 07:41:16
  • mattmatt
    @Jon_Egg The only thing i worry about is that I only put accompanying type with one of my designs. If they're hung up on that I don't stand a chance. My reasoning is that the logo should stand up on it's own. eg. Apple, Acorn, BBC owl, etc. The brief says they need to work at 1cm x 1cm screen-printed on the PCB.

    @Dastardly all logos were originally design to work in b/w and then coloured up to give a bit of texture and personality.
    Post edited by matt at 2011-10-04 07:41:30
  • mattmatt
    The logo result still isn't out, so to pass the time I've posted the remainder of my submissions.

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=43&mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=75.25#postid-9637

    Some related viewing/reading:

    Steve's thoughts about (NeXT) logo design:
    http://youtu.be/watch?v=EHYCP5keC1Y

    And about the Apple logo by the guy who designed it:
    http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_designer_apple_logo
    Post edited by matt at 2011-10-07 14:52:26
  • mattmatt
    Oops
    Post edited by matt at 2011-10-07 19:34:03
  • mattmatt
    And the winner has been revealed. Not me

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=221

    image
    Post edited by matt at 2011-10-08 06:36:08
  • Chad_SexingtonChad_Sexington
    Yours were better Matt.
  • mugsymugsy
    Where's the Pi?

    Fux ache.
  • PaulEMozPaulEMoz
    Yeah, I don't particularly like that one. It's like a katamari with bunny ears.
  • Chad_SexingtonChad_Sexington
    Yeah, pretty ugly and too fussy. Very bad choice.
  • mattmatt
    I don't know where to begin with expressing my thoughts on that logo. But I shall say that I'd have been more surprised if they'd picked a good one!
  • mugsymugsy
    I reckon it's an inside job.
  • PaulEMozPaulEMoz
    I'm actually surprised it hasn't got a bite out of it.
  • OnePunchMickeyOnePunchMickey
    There were several of Matt's that were better than that. Matt you should get some stickers made anyway and we can use yours.
  • mattmatt
    Word.
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    Ah well, never mind son - At least you had a go!
  • mattmatt
    And a lot of fun doing so. :)
  • Gorilla_BiscuitGorilla_Biscuit
    For £25 I'll probably take a punt on one of these,

    I'll be ignoring the logo on it and swapping it for the Cake stand one :)
  • mattmatt
    Haha! :)
  • TromainTromain
    mugsy said:

    Where's the Pi?



    From the home page of RP:
    Congratulations to Paul Beech, whose logo had the largest number of votes from the panel because of its graphical simplicity, its adaptability and ease of reproduction (it works well in only one colour as well as in the three-colour version you see above, and doesn’t have any holes of the sort that would prevent us from using cutouts), and the fact that it looks darned friendly and delightfully raspberrysome. The raspberry here is actually a 3d buckyball, which is a nice reminder of π. The designer points out that a buckyball has 32 faces, and that 11 are visible in the logo – the Raspberry Pi has a 32-bit processor and an ARM11 on board (someone got awfully lucky with the numbers here).


    Still crap compared to those Matt created, but oh well.
  • RockwaldoRockwaldo
    Sounds to me they were essentially looking for a picture of a raspberry all along. Would have made the designing job easier if that was clear from the outset.
  • mattmatt
    Too true, Rocky.

    Sneaky that the guy sent in that descriptive text of the thought process behind his design even though the rules said not to.
  • mugsymugsy
    Buckyballs my arse.
  • Gorilla_BiscuitGorilla_Biscuit
    What is the logo going to be used on? The way the wiki describes the Pi all you'll essentially get for your £25/£35 is the circuit board with the case etc being optional extras
  • xADxAD
    Hm, so they're not going for a USB Memory Stick form any longer?
  • mattmatt
    Yeah, there's some sort of case TBC and I imagine the logo will be used in press, on paper, packaging
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/raspberry_pi/
  • stysty
    I really fancy getting a Pi

    I have one really great idea for one which would mean finding a way to drive a tiny (3" screen)

    And of course it would make an awesome MAME unit for the older video games, quite fancy stuff like Nemesis/R-Type etc. on a 50" Plasma. I'm sure there's loads of the classic ROMs you could fit on an SDCard...
  • Gorilla_BiscuitGorilla_Biscuit
    How easy would it be to get MAME running on one of these? Really tempted to pick one up if would be relatively painless to a novice (albeit one quite eager to learn some programming)
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    I'm not aware of a recent ARM build of MAME - I dare say some enterprising soul will have a version sooner or later though...
  • MuttleyMuttley
    Gorilla_Biscuit said:

    How easy would it be to get MAME running on one of these? Really tempted to pick one up if would be relatively painless to a novice (albeit one quite eager to learn some programming)



    Very, I expect. They'll be running a version of Linux with X-Windows, so there's probably already a version that will run...

  • mattmatt
    It will probably run the same ARM version that people are running on the iPad without much coaxing
  • Sir_LANsalotSir_LANsalot
    Ah!, good point :)
  • mattmatt
    It's no the latest and greatest but it has a load of classics boxed off
  • stysty
    As Muttley said, if there isn't a MAME build already available for it I suspect there will be in fairly short order. When new systems come out one of the first things that gets done is people build whatever SW is easily available, especially games and graphical stuff. Since MAME will largely be in C or higher level languages it should be quite a straightforward build I would imagine.

    The challenge might be to get underlying libraries built, I don't know if MAME uses stuff like SDL. But again those libraries will ne needed anyway and stuff like MAME is a good test case.

    Seeing as they have Quake running, another game where there is publicly accessible source code, I'd be very surprised if they haven't already got MAME up and running. The reason we don't know about it yet is that MAME has the dodgy grey area surrounding ROMS and it isn't as visually impressive as Quake, so it would be a poor PR candidate (also old arcade games aren't seen as cutting edge, whereas a fully textured FPS is still seen as modern and up to date).
  • stysty
    A quick google reveals a lot of hits for Raspberry Pi MAME, so I suspect it will be coming pretty soon after the first hardware gets delivered.


    EDIT

    The exciting thing for me is that it's a full computer, ie. CPU, RAM etc., Plus USB, Ethernet, HDMI and SDCard all for 25quid. Perfect experimentation platform I think
    Post edited by sty at 2011-11-28 15:50:03
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