Raspberry Pi mini computer £21

[41south]

Wonderful little machine - I have mine running an amateur radio APRS application

[yv1hx]

Wonderful little machine - I have mine running an amateur radio APRS application

Very good use

So far to learn and experiment with, (and of course, have some fun), I don't have decided the final application of my RPi.

In fact, I haven't powered up for first time, maybe I can find time this weekend to play with ...

[steve]

Mine came today; I also hope to find time over the weekend to have a play.

[41south]

Its a fairly steep learning curve in places (for non Linux people such as myself) but the Pi forums have had the answer for just about every question I had.
Do yourselves one favor though, go for at least a 4gb card, which may mean repartitioning one of the supplied images. I found I ran out of application space otherwise

Colin.

[yv1hx]

Mine came today; I also hope to find time over the weekend to have a play.

Good luck!

[gemini06720]

Good news for those of you with a Raspberry Pi computer - on July 31, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is being ported over to the credit-card sized computer.

[water01]

Not sure that is good news as Ice Cream Sandwich is getting slated for its poor use of memory, not something you want to happen on an Arm Processor with 256Mb of Ram.

Think I will stick with Linux.

[gemini06720]

David, you did not read my message 'carefully' as I stated that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) was being ported over to the Raspberry Pi computer.

In fact, from an other article (I cannot find it anymore), the 'ported' version of Android is running surprisingly quite fast on the ARM chip (with bugs in the hardware-accelerated graphics and video almost completely gone).

[SJG1976]

Mine came today; I also hope to find time over the weekend to have a play.

Hi Steve,

How are you getting on with your little box of tricks?
What sort of PSU are you using with it?

Had mine running on a very low amperage one and it didnt run very well, id recommend at least a 1amp to stop it crashing all the time.

[steve]

How are you getting on with your little box of tricks?

I got as far as getting it running with Raspbian, and setting up VNC so I could run it headless from my PC, and then I had my hard disk disaster, so I've been occupied with recovering from that since then.

What sort of PSU are you using with it?

One of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0021DXU38
rated at 1.2A and seems to work fine with the Pi

[Dennisdg]

Just ordered one - I'd be interested in knowing what SD cards people are using and any issues found.

Thanks

Dennis

[steve]

I'm using one of these: http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electro ... oduct.html

A bit on the slow side, but perfectly adequate and very cheap!

[mcrossley]

The GUI is certainly a bit slow, but command line local and via SSH is fine.

[TNETWeather]

I obtained my Raspberry Pi (one of several I think I will be getting) a couple weeks ago now. Basically using it as a headless device connected to the 60" HDTV TV with a WiFi dongle attached for network access. About to order a couple more for some other projects and should have at least one more in about a week.

My setup can be seen at http://ly.tnet.com/V

Primary goal for the first one is Streaming content to HDMI devices from my Nexus 7. but that is currently not available quite yet. So I have just been messing with it. Started looking at some possible sensors for environmental monitoring (not really weather), but my lack of electronic background is coming back to bite me.

I have installed XBMC stand alone which was slow, but worked well once it started the whatever it was playing. I have also been streaming some ripped DVD's which I put into mp4 format and they are brilliant on the big screen with no lag or stutters. I am accessing the videos via a network connection to my NAS which is giving me up to 3TB of data access though I am not mounting all the shares. Just music, ISO's and MP4's. I currently cannot play any of the ISO's for reasons I've not yet worked out yet.

[yv1hx]

...snip...Raspberry Pi (one of several I think I will be getting) ...snip....

I´m jealous