Raspberry Pi

[Cloudane]

Nice case!

It's a baby Orac... Awww!

[Misfit]

A look at the other similar devices to the Pi on the reg here:

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/10/p ... _the_rest/

I really like the look of the FXI Technology CottonCandy, i think it's been mention on here previously. Obviously more expensive (Around £139) but is cased, a lot more powerful, has BT and wifi and has some interesting claims on connections and how it works. One to watch.

http://www.fxitech.com/products/

Back to the Pi and XBMC I notice one of the comments:

Get Openelec RPi XBMC - been trying it out on the RPi this week and its pretty good. 1080p and 720p H264 works fine. SD Xvids etc are fine but sometimes a bit choppy - overclocking the CPU to 1Ghz was dead easy and seems to have fixed some of the speed issues on XBMC. There are bugs however but it boots pretty fast on a class 10 SD card so the odd lockup can be fixed with a quick on and off... They are working hard to produce a finished version.

[wanye]

Back to the Pi and XBMC I notice one of the comments:

Get Openelec RPi XBMC - been trying it out on the RPi this week and its pretty good. 1080p and 720p H264 works fine. SD Xvids etc are fine but sometimes a bit choppy - overclocking the CPU to 1Ghz was dead easy and seems to have fixed some of the speed issues on XBMC. There are bugs however but it boots pretty fast on a class 10 SD card so the odd lockup can be fixed with a quick on and off... They are working hard to produce a finished version.

this was my plan for the weekend actually!
(assuming i can find my spare powerline ethernet adapter)

[Cloudane]

Well after my launch day morning was spent hammering both sites, I now have my invitation to place an order with RS

[defsdoor]

Yay - order placed! Despatch "within 3 weeks"

[Cloudane]

Got the eBay acrylic case for my first Pi. Fun putting together but definitely worth it!

Now to decide what to do with the second one

[wanye]

ive been sent an invitation to order from RS now if anyone wants to use if (needs to use my email address, but AFAIK thats all)

give us a prod if you want the code

[Misfit]

ive been sent an invitation to order from RS now if anyone wants to use if (needs to use my email address, but AFAIK thats all)

give us a prod if you want the code

Yes please! If you still have it.

[Misfit]

Get Openelec RPi XBMC - been trying it out on the RPi this week and its pretty good. 1080p and 720p H264 works fine. SD Xvids etc are fine but sometimes a bit choppy - overclocking the CPU to 1Ghz was dead easy and seems to have fixed some of the speed issues on XBMC. There are bugs however but it boots pretty fast on a class 10 SD card so the odd lockup can be fixed with a quick on and off... They are working hard to produce a finished version.

this was my plan for the weekend actually!
(assuming i can find my spare powerline ethernet adapter)

Did you get anywhere with this?

[Misfit]

ive been sent an invitation to order from RS now if anyone wants to use if (needs to use my email address, but AFAIK thats all)

give us a prod if you want the code

Yes please! If you still have it.

Thank you! Now ordered.

[Firefox]

Orderised.

Not really feeling the excitement about the whole thing anymore, but I still think they could be extremely useful widgets.

[OX mkII]

Orderised.

Not really feeling the excitement about the whole thing anymore, but I still think they could be extremely useful widgets.

Software maketh the machine, so get coding a killer app and the thing will rocket.

[Barney]

Orderised.

Not really feeling the excitement about the whole thing anymore, but I still think they could be extremely useful widgets.

Software maketh the machine, so get coding a killer app and the thing will rocket.

Well, I'll be porting SpecBAS to run on it.... Killer app right there

[Kelloggs]

extremely useful widgets

This, quite literally, is all I'm looking for. They have the advantage of being cheap, so my ham-fisted fettlings can destroy a few without bankrupting me, but I think that, once we've got a portable computer you can stick in your pocket once you're done with it, with a root file system that can be changed at the swap of an SD card, which plugs into a TV and standard USB stuff, we can go quite some distance with it.

I'm actually really pleased that it isn't a platform on Microsoft's radar - we've got enough Windows boxes, thankyouverymuch, and the cost of a Windows license would blow it clean out of the "cheap as chips" price range; also, it will encourage the people who can end up making great things happen with them to actually make great things happen, rather than playing Solitaire / running Excel / failing to join a domain / repairing it after it's caught a cold. It's powerful enough to do useful things with, though, being a proper microcomputer rather than just a microcontroller*.

And I want one, and RS seems to have forgotten all about me...

* I know - an Arduino is a damn useful thing (to give just one example) but a RasPi can have a keyboard, mouse and display plugged in. That's a computer.

[zip accident]

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

Right, my soldering skills are minimal, enough to make up a messy looking but working rs232 cable, and that was decades ago.

So please tell me I don't want this (mainly the lapdock, but Pi too if you want), Amazon has the lapdock for £67 and that's heading toward tempting because I think it might be useful someday, but I'm not sure what software is going on with it (is there software in HDMI?), and I'm not sure what other connectors there may be that might or might not be useful.