Raspberry Pi

[Cloudane]

I see you can now order cases for under a fiver too.

Oh, official ones?

Can't see on Farnell, and RS's site isn't particularly responding (I guess they must've emailed tens of thousands at once and now they're DoSing it again)

[Misfit]

I see you can now order cases for under a fiver too.

Oh, official ones?

Can't see on Farnell, and RS's site isn't particularly responding (I guess they must've emailed tens of thousands at once and now they're DoSing it again)

They were listed in the accessories you could add to your order on the RS site and were in stock. Black, white or clear.

I added two to my order but doubt I'll see them until the second Pi turns up.

[Whiteball]

Does anyone know if one of these Pi things could possibly be used for running emulators, preferably C64 and Mame, but others maybe too?

[toxibunny]

[Firefox]

Yay! Got my Pi to work with the little monitor on my desk!

I did this by plugging it into my gaming TV in the other room (so I could see what I was doing) and then I gave it a static IP address and automatically enabled SSH from startup. Then I unplugged it and moved it to my desk, where I connected it to the little monitor and the network, SSHed across to it from my dev PC, and used the /boot/config.txt file to force DVI mode and the monitor's native resolution. When I rebooted it I was greeted by the familiar raspberry logo and boot text! Simples when you know how.

So now through the marvels of SSH and X I can work in comfort and see the results on a separate screen. Let the coding begin!

[adam]

i was thinking today i'd like a bespoke little system that does the bare minimum of what i'd need in the most direct way, i remember the days of reading email in dos at warp speed, just pressing the delete key and having the next message appear, quicker & less faff than webmail, i often download new software though

[Barney]

A friend of mine ported SpecBAS to the Pi :-)

http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/SpecBAS-RasPi-v0.742.zip

And it runs pretty well considering the slow CPU. It's a mashup of the Pandora source, which works well - and only took 15 minutes to build on the Pi itself!

[Baggypants]

Mine arrived at our front door today!

The only problem is I'm 80 miles away from my front door till Friday. So close...

[Firefox]

A similar thing to the Raspberry Pi with a much faster processor and WiFi instead of Ethernet is the Gooseberry Board.

http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/

Now up for preorder for £40 + £2.70 P&P.

It's actually the guts out of a tablet, but the only real clue to that is the strange rounded corner.


Meanwhile, RS and Farnell have announced the lifting of the one-per-customer limit on ordering today.

[VNVObit]

Nice case available at http://pibow.com/

3 week wait though

[teamonkey]

Does anyone know if you can get Netflix on the Pi?

[wanye]

Not that I'm aware of as you need silverlight IIRC...

[The ghost of raids past]

Think Netflix and love film are unavailable on any format of Linux. They simply don't support the DRM the studios require.

[venusian]

You can get Netflix on Android. Can you run Android on the Pi yet? I assume Lovefilm will eventually end up on the Fire as Amazon own both.

[Colonius]

Ice Cream Sandwich coming to Pi:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1700
doesn't mean NetFlix necessarily though.