{"id":11297,"date":"2014-10-27T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2014-10-27T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:42:13","slug":"firefox-os-for-the-raspberry-pi-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11297","title":{"rendered":"Firefox OS for the Raspberry Pi gains momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B05FItcIUAEfQB_.jpg?resize=560%2C747&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"747\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/10\/27\/mozilla_hopes_to_challenge_raspbian_as_rpi_os_of_choice\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a> for the meat of this one, and to Tim Richardson who spotted it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a Mozilla Festival held over this last weekend, developers showed more of the Firefox OS port for the Pi. They also listed some of the objectives of the project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be at parity with Raspbian\/RPi as a hobbyist environment. Users will be able to read from sensors and control motors, LEDs, solenoids, slave boards, etc. A modified Fx OS for Raspberry Pi will be able to fly a drone;<\/li>\n<li>Be competitive with other media player OSes available for Rpi;<\/li>\n<li>Be competitive with other IDEs for FxOS on Raspberry Pi targeted at beginning programmers, like IDLE and Scratch;<\/li>\n<li>Enable programmers (via DOM\/CSS) to develop robotics etc. by building a declarative model of a reactive system. With one type of output device, the actual electronics could be interfaced with. 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