Raspberry Pi

[Cloudane]

Just keep thinking of "little things" to try on it out of interest. Seems it isn't quite powerful enough to handle Minecraft Server (was worth a shot!)

I did notice that UAE is available for ARM: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/arm/e-uae
So I guess next I may see how well it runs as an Amiga
One interesting project might be to mount one inside an A600 case and get the keyboard working on it.

does anyone know how accessible the web is nowadays? i know css etc was supposed to make it all much easier for screen readers and the like, just thinking that if it's straightforward enough, a browser could make special versions of pages that run quickly, i last tried lynx about 10-15 years ago, just thinking that it'd be challenging to view many sites with it.

Depends on the site I guess. The way the standards+CSS have gone have kept it pretty accessible, as long as sites don't rely too heavily on Javascript or obscure code.

Really need an XBMC replacement, if they don't hurry up I'll buy a Boxee box.

Yeah. XBMC is a "coming soon" I think.... I'm not sure even audio is working yet.

Once it's running nicely, I have a feeling it'll be rather more useful than the more expensive and massively locked-down AppleTV that I have...

[Barney]

I did notice that UAE is available for ARM: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/arm/e-uae
So I guess next I may see how well it runs as an Amiga
One interesting project might be to mount one inside an A600 case and get the keyboard working on it.

You *should* get full (7MHz) A500 speed out of it, but I'd be surprised if it can do anything more than that... E-UAE doesn't have JIT emulation for ARM platforms, so it's strictly interpretation only. For gaming, you'd be better off with UAE4ALL which gets far better performance, but very little compatibility beyond simple OCS games.

E-UAE, when built for Pandora (Cortex A8), gets good speed when overclocked to ~1GHz.

I'd like to be surprised though

[wanye]

wahey!

Having successfully passed its CE compliance testing, we can now confirm that your Raspberry Pi will be delivered in the week commencing 07/05/2012.

[Surfr]

wahey!

Having successfully passed its CE compliance testing, we can now confirm that your Raspberry Pi will be delivered in the week commencing 07/05/2012.

I got my email today too

[Misfit]

This thread got my usual gadget juices going.

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=3 ... &p=1540200

But just didn't need another phone.

However as I saw you could get the lapdock alone for £45 from eBuyer I started investigating if it might work with my other Android devices. Turns out it takes an HDMI input and the keyboard/touch pad act as a usb keyboard and mouse.

In reading threads on XDA developers someone suggested it might be great to turn a Pi into a note book. Apparently there is quite a bit of room inside so it might even be possible to get the Pi in it.

Some adaptors should be able to sort the mini HDMI and USB ports and a clever person may even be able to do something with the battery in it to get power to the Pi.

Anyway, at £45 I thought it had to be worth a go so have ordered one. Guess I better order a Pi now too...!

Even if (with my lack of skills) I end up with Pi running of a PSU and a couple of wires going to the HDMI/USB it's still a steal for a screen and keyboard to use it.

lapdock can be got here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/367267-lapdock-qw ... pdock-gb2a

[wanye]

DAMN YOU!

gonna order one of those on payday now...

[Misfit]

DAMN YOU!

gonna order one of those on payday now...

Thought you might crack.

Alternatively save your cash and sell me your Pi...

[Misfit]

Unless you are going to be playing with the wires inside, you might want to order one of these too as it may take a while to get here...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280761232832

[Cloudane]

Fascinating. Sorely tempted

If anyone is after a wireless adaptor, this one works, two for a tenner (they do sell single ones also, but for 10 quid I went for the double):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200690722969
RTL8188 based.

It does take a bit of fiddling, manually putting a driver module in and learning how Debian's "wpa_supplicant" package works but hey, learning is what it's all about!

Debian instructions:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/troubl ... ic-working

[Misfit]

Just a disclaimer before everyone rushes out to buy Lapdocks I should point out in theory this should work as no one has had the kit to test it yet.

However have seen videos of the HDMI out working with things like the PS3 and other reports of the keyboard/touchpad working fine as a USB one.

[Firefox]

Olimex are developing a kind-of similar thing to the Raspberry Pi but with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 Allwinner SoC at its heart:

http://www.olimex.com/dev/a13-olinuxino.html

No pricing yet, but Olimex boards are always very reasonable.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

[wanye]

Just a disclaimer before everyone rushes out to buy Lapdocks I should point out in theory this should work as no one has had the kit to test it yet.

However have seen videos of the HDMI out working with things like the PS3 and other reports of the keyboard/touchpad working fine as a USB one.

i do hope so, i've just put an order in

[xav]

lapdock can be got here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/367267-lapdock-qw ... pdock-gb2a

Damn! Only just spotted this, and they're out of stock

[zip accident]

lapdock can be got here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/367267-lapdock-qw ... pdock-gb2a

Damn! Only just spotted this, and they're out of stock

Amazon have them for £100. Which is over twice as much, but still a lot less than the RRP. At Amazon's price I'm definitely not interested at the moment, but then I don't really understand what it is.

[wanye]

ooh!

Dear Raspberry PI Customer,

We are delighted to say stock has been allocated to your order but unfortunately when we processed your credit card transaction your card had expired.

phoned them with my new card details, and my order status is currently "processing"

*excited*