Got my PiHouse the other day :approve:
thats pretty cool! gonna make one on the cnc router with some perspex/lexan or something.
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Raspberry Pi
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thats pretty cool! gonna make one on the cnc router with some perspex/lexan or something.
Nope!
Sat in it's case gathering dust, will give it a go soon but waiting on development boards to come out for the I/O tbh.
debian is ok, the GUI is pretty laggy and browsing is pretty slow (drivers not optimized still)
raspBMC is pretty good, same as OpenELEC and sporting the XMBC that's popular, it's pretty good, had a few lockups, could do with being a bit smoother and the video decoding is a bit choppy on some 1080p movies I've got but not bad at all.
I was going to give ArchLinux a go, but then I thought the better of it.
Sat in it's case gathering dust, will give it a go soon but waiting on development boards to come out for the I/O tbh.
debian is ok, the GUI is pretty laggy and browsing is pretty slow (drivers not optimized still)
raspBMC is pretty good, same as OpenELEC and sporting the XMBC that's popular, it's pretty good, had a few lockups, could do with being a bit smoother and the video decoding is a bit choppy on some 1080p movies I've got but not bad at all.
I was going to give ArchLinux a go, but then I thought the better of it.
Polo + Micra
yeah got debian on one sd card and raspbmc rc3 on an other
got a little 4 line lcd running in debian giving me some info (although can get IP address to work) and got omxplayer installed which seems to work pretty well
going to try get raspbmc running off a usb stick/hard drive next see if that speeds things up a little
got a little 4 line lcd running in debian giving me some info (although can get IP address to work) and got omxplayer installed which seems to work pretty well
going to try get raspbmc running off a usb stick/hard drive next see if that speeds things up a little
My Gertboard should arrive next week so I can start using it how I want to 
I'm planning for a remote-control (over wifi) car with cameras etc.
I'm planning for a remote-control (over wifi) car with cameras etc.
£25, £30 with shipping I believe!
Ol’ Tarby
ClioSport Moderator
Clio 220 Trophy
Best not arrive next week if you've only just ordered it, been waiting 12 weeks for mine to arrive lol
You can now get them from ModMyPi or Maplins with instant delivery btw!
Ol’ Tarby
ClioSport Moderator
Clio 220 Trophy
Jooookin! Should of just held off and bought from maplin then. Hopefully RS will get mine to me soon then, although I have no idea what im gonna do with it
Prepare for disappointment.
Scrooge
ClioSport Moderator
E55 AMG
Even with xbmc mate?
I would disagree, mine connects to my windows home server, so I can play all my TV programs, films and music. Will even stream my blu rays including Dolby DTS audio.
Controlled by any android device I have laying about. And I only got this Tuesday.
This is never going to please a apple lover, its only 25 quid remember. And soon will be able to do a lot more than apple can ever manage with a closed platform restricting users to only use their formats/ways etc
Its CPU is vastly underpowered - it has a good GPU but it's limited to decoding h264 in hardware (ok, MPEG2 codec and some proprietary wins**t codec are/will be available for purchase).
Anything else with a decent bit-rate and resolution will grind.
XBMC is slow on it, massive pauses all over the place.
Oh, and there's also the nasty bugs in the USB core in the silicon that have not been fixed (or cannot be worked around) by broadcom since they released the SOC years back.
Buy a roku if you want a media player.
If you want to tinker with a low cost linux platform, buy a Pi.
Edit: One thing the Pi has going for it is that it's GPU natively supports CEC, which might be of interest to some people.
Fair comment, and I agree with that.
Thing the CPU does well for what it is tho. Wasn't expecting it to play .mkv so smoothly
PI just got 50 % faster
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008
^ Indeed!
Got my Gertboard yesterday finished soldering it late last night & did some brief testing, looks awesome.
Wish there was a trade-in program for the 256mb users.
Got my Gertboard yesterday
finished soldering it late last night & did some brief testing, looks awesome.Wish there was a trade-in program for the 256mb users
.So tempted to get one of these for XBMC. I have an Apple TV with XBMC and its perfect, all the add ons so you can stream catch up and tv/films.
bozothenutter
ClioSport Club Member
i understand a Pi can run android aswell?
would love to add this to the car with BT and Torque and harry's laptimer for example...maybe replace the screen in a 182 with a touchscreen?
would love to add this to the car with BT and Torque and harry's laptimer for example...maybe replace the screen in a 182 with a touchscreen?
It's dog slow, there are better options out there. I'd buy one of the already available Android headuntis imo.
Got my Raspberry Pi Zero through yesterday, got absolutely no use for it, but it was £4. Funnily enough the delivery added £2.50 on top.
