Raspberry Pi

simply simple

anyone using it? What are your opinions about it?

A la mode?

paulbok

As long as its warm and served with ice cream I don't mind.

DaveDaRave

Great for collecting dust

granturismo

simply simple wrote: »

anyone using it? What are your opinions about it?

Life of a fruit?

Try the tech forum for some better answers.

OneOfThem Stumbled

Yeah I like a slice with a dollop of cream.

(sorry, couldn't resist)

The Backwards Man

Technology has really come full circle now hasn't it?

the_monkey

you get what you pay for, pretty flimsy really , I had to send mine back as the sd slot was broken, but the replacement is ok , just be gentle with it .

it's €30 for a reason.

Floppybits

Whats raspberry PI?

simply simple

would mod plz move this thread to tech forum please.

Basq

Using it to download from 4OD and not a whole lot else..

Dravokivich

T'is no Magnum PI.

simply simple

the_monkey wrote: »

you get what you pay for, pretty flimsy really , I had to send mine back as the sd slot was broken, but the replacement is ok , just be gentle with it .

it's €30 for a reason.

is it really promising for kids as promoted?

TheSB

Not as good as warm apple pie.

B.A._Baracus

the_monkey wrote: »

you get what you pay for, pretty flimsy really , I had to send mine back as the sd slot was broken, but the replacement is ok , just be gentle with it .

it's €30 for a reason.

Never used one myself but was figuring this to be the case. I'll take my Nano Slim over it any day :P Works perfectly fine.

simply simple

Floppybits wrote: »

Whats raspberry PI?

have a look at this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

TheSB

simply simple wrote: »

have a look at this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Yeah dosn't look tasty. Try a rhubarb pie perhaps??

Peregrine

Android Mini PCs are also an alternative, OP

Knifey Spoony

This is certainly a unique use for the Raspberry Pi:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f607z/owners_of_a_raspberry_pi_what_do_you_use_it_for/ca7an5w

Mo14

Try here OP.
Also, in future there'll hopefully be a dedicated forum.

Reoil

This is pretty awesome: http://www.daveakerman.com/

the_monkey

simply simple wrote: »

is it really promising for kids as promoted?

dunno, can't really speak for it there, i just use it as a media player..

Nemeses

the_monkey wrote: »

dunno, can't really speak for it there, i just use it as a media player..

I had one, Had it a year - most I did with it was get a 16gb card and install Linux..
Then it was in a box for the rest of the year so I sold it.

However now I have plans to buy another one as well, the models now are better than they were when they first came out and build a mini pc for the car...

I have ideas me.....

Grayson

DaveDaRave wrote: »

Great for collecting dust

I bought one. But I don't own a TV


I have a mate who bought one. then bought a special metal case. A huge memory card and all the most expensive extras you could imagine. Cost 200 euros in total.

jester77

I have one at home, great little device. Have openVPN for connecting to my network and nginx for reverse proxing to various servers installed on it.

Mr Benevolent

jester77 wrote: »

I have one at home, great little device. Have openVPN for connecting to my network and nginx for reverse proxing to various servers installed on it.

Very interesting. How's the basement these days?

IM0

id give it 3.14 out of ten

Reamer Fanny

Just ordered one I have several ideas in the works, one is to use text to speech have an external speaker connected to the Pi and have it set to download a news websites RSS feed hourly and output it through the speakers.

moonlighting

I love how Maplin managed to sell the 25 dollar Raspberry Pi for 100 Euro. Thats some markup lol.

LowOdour

moonlighting wrote: »

I love how Maplin managed to sell the 25 dollar Raspberry Pi for 100 Euro. Thats some markup lol.

And its probably the older model too? Chancers

kyote00

Nerd alert

EGriff

moonlighting wrote: »

I love how Maplin managed to sell the 25 dollar Raspberry Pi for 100 Euro. Thats some markup lol.

Maplins prices are disgraceful for almost everything, they are literally robbing you every tine you buy something in there.

I got RPI a few days ago, so far I have it set up to stream from most of the popular free movie sites (icefilms etc) but I'm planning on setting it up to play old games like magadrive and super nintendo.

ComputerKing

I have two have one running tor and the other set up as a media centre running Open Elec.

5uspect

I use them in work to control various bits of hardware with python, tho I probably use Arduino boards more.

Tabnabs

justryan wrote: »

Just ordered one I have several ideas in the works, one is to use text to speech have an external speaker connected to the Pi and have it set to download a news websites RSS feed hourly and output it through the speakers.

Or you could just turn on Sky News?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Got one ,but is seemed like a clumsy way to get Xbmc,so I sold it on.

Reamer Fanny

Tabnabs wrote: »

Or you could just turn on Sky News?

Wouldn't be half as much fun

Nemeses

Tabnabs wrote: »

Or you could just turn on Sky News?

Now thats just boring

Capt'n Midnight

moonlighting wrote: »

I love how Maplin managed to sell the 25 dollar Raspberry Pi for 100 Euro. Thats some markup lol.

http://cpcireland.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=cpc/en_CC/makerspace/raspberrypi.html&isRedirect=true - links usually turn to €

eg:
http://cpcireland.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-moda-256m/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-a-256mb/dp/SC12879?Ntt=SBC%2C+RASPBERRY+PI%2C+MODEL+A%2C+256MB (€24.25)

Chorcai

Are these like arduino boards ? http://www.arduino.cc/

Capt'n Midnight

Chorcai wrote: »

Are these like arduino boards ? http://www.arduino.cc/

old faq http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

5uspect

Chorcai wrote: »

Are these like arduino boards ? http://www.arduino.cc/

An Arduino board is a microcontroller. You program it do to X, it does X forever.
You can hook it up to sensors and spit out data via a serial port or control some robotics or something. Think of it as a programmable circuit board.
It has no file system, it just runs the simple program it's been given.

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, low power ARM based computer running some flavour of Linux. You can do almost anything with it you can imagine doing with an old PC. You can make games in Python, interpret and store that data your Arduino is writing out, play HD video from an external drive and output it via HDMI to a TV (with XBMC for example). You can use it to browse the web (albeit slowly) or as a way to learn about Linux and the command line. The OS is stored on an SD card that you can easily flash back to default you you can mess with is as much as you like. You can pop in different SD cards for different usages.

From both an industrial and academic perspective both are a great way to avoid costly solutions like Matlab and LabView for mechatronics and other similar projects.

holystungun9

Floppybits wrote: »

Whats raspberry PI?

TheSB wrote: »

Not as good as warm apple pie.

Ha,you wouldn't try to take a BYTE out of a Raspberry PI though!!! Ha, a BYTE! Gettit?

Nap time for me.

jester77

This is the coolest project I've seen so far.

Guy re-porgrammed his microwave with voice commands and a barcode scanner. So you can scan the barcode of the product your are microwaving and it will read the cooking instructions from a database.