Raspberry Pi - anyone got one yet?
Got mine at the weekend. Wasn't entirely sure what to do with it but I'm an IT geek so purchase seemed sort of compulsory.
I have to say that so far I'm been impressed with the little gizmo. Setting it up as a media player (OpenELEC/XBMC) was complete childs play and the Rpi ploughs through all my DVIs and MKVs without a stutter and the relatively light XBMC menus do not cause the Rpi much of a problem.
It is a bit fussy about memory cards however and I found the RPi performance doing standard "deskop" stuff in Debian like web browsing etc to be a little too slow for my liking. The box really needs a distro which can offload work to the superb Rpi GPU rather than rely on the weak ARM CPU for everything. Overclocking CPU to 800MHz helps things a fair bit though.
There aren't cases I really like yet available (and in stock) so for now I've gone the the lego option. Here is my effort:
I have to say that so far I'm been impressed with the little gizmo. Setting it up as a media player (OpenELEC/XBMC) was complete childs play and the Rpi ploughs through all my DVIs and MKVs without a stutter and the relatively light XBMC menus do not cause the Rpi much of a problem.
It is a bit fussy about memory cards however and I found the RPi performance doing standard "deskop" stuff in Debian like web browsing etc to be a little too slow for my liking. The box really needs a distro which can offload work to the superb Rpi GPU rather than rely on the weak ARM CPU for everything. Overclocking CPU to 800MHz helps things a fair bit though.
There aren't cases I really like yet available (and in stock) so for now I've gone the the lego option. Here is my effort:
You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
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I have no idea what this is, what it does or what any of those acronyms you just used mean...
..but Lego is cool. Thumbs up.0 -
TwellySmat wrote:but Lego is cool. Thumbs up.
You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.0 -
Mine's on order. I think I'm 2 weeks into a 4-5 week delivery window. I'll dig my son's lego out in preparation.
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Think of the Pi as lego computer bits - not very impressive just sitting there, but the fun is in what you can build with ittTwellySmat wrote:I have no idea what this is, what it does or what any of those acronyms you just used mean...
..but Lego is cool. Thumbs up.0 -
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Better. I made this to stop the neighbourhood's stray dogs from shi**ing in my garden. And to stop the crackheads from stealing my prize opium poppies.TwellySmat wrote:So you can make virtual buildings and dinosaurs and planes and robots out of it?
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