Raspberry Pi Catch-All

muraii wrote:

Jasper.

Pretty cool! I wonder if I would actually use that... Only one way to find out!

Heh, just today I was wondering about what it would take to have such a thing in my apartment and how wonderful it would be to have voice control.

ok I'm going insane here. How the hell do I configure the edimax wifi usb? I've tried following a bunch of different guides and nothing seems to work.

I can't get it to connect. Not seeing it on my network

I think I know what's happening but I don't know why. I can get wireless working just fine on the thing but as soon as I power it off and back on I lose the wireless functionality. Something isn't "sticking" and I don't know why

JC wrote:

I think I know what's happening but I don't know why. I can get wireless working just fine on the thing but as soon as I power it off and back on I lose the wireless functionality. Something isn't "sticking" and I don't know why

What is did you install and are you using a GUI or command line?

I figured it out. Even though it isn't supposed to do anything... The sd card was locked. Once I unlocked it the changes would actually take.

JC wrote:

I figured it out. Even though it isn't supposed to do anything... The sd card was locked. Once I unlocked it the changes would actually take.

I see so the changes made weren't written to the card because it was locked. It's always the small things that stump us

So, I just joined the fun of this little computer. Got a B+ model.

Think I'll go with Rasbian, as I wanted to play with Debian, but can't atm, since I don't have it on my main Pc, only on the Laptop.

So, I think I'll install Chromium on it, might play a little with videos as well.

Just to play around this little device, what would you guys suggest ?

Well, supposedly, they've made good progress with video decoding on the Pi; it's basically a massive video chip with a tiny bitty CPU on the side, and the hardware is supposed to handle full 1080p decoding. When I was fooling with it, early on, it didn't work very well yet, but people have claimed that it's much stronger now. It might make a good little XBMC terminal (renamed as Kodi, I believe, but it's the same thing -- a video server/client package.)

Mine mostly functions as a backup server for me; it holds my network together if the main server goes down. I also use it as a source of high quality random numbers, as it has an onboard hardware RNG.

You can get Mathematica for it for free; it's a very slow download, but it's interesting software if you're into math at all. Normally it's very expensive, but they give away the Pi version, probably because the Pi is so slow.

Malor wrote:

Mine mostly functions as a backup server for me; it holds my network together if the main server goes down. I also use it as a source of high quality random numbers, as it has an onboard hardware RNG.

Going to be setting up a Crashplan-based backup server, too. Just need to get an Edimax wifi USB adapter, as my TP-Link seems to require compiling a kernel.

Malor wrote:

You can get Mathematica for it for free; it's a very slow download, but it's interesting software if you're into math at all. Normally it's very expensive, but they give away the Pi version, probably because the Pi is so slow.

That's going to be fun. I'm not necessarily into Mathematica; I've dabbled a bit but prefer other tools. However, I wouldn't mind seeing how far it's come. Thanks for the tip.

I don't know how well it works as a video player without these, but
http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-k...
(sold separately to lower the unit costs)

Are those real? I've never heard of anything like that.

Malor wrote:

Are those real? I've never heard of anything like that.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/new-video-features/

So, I have was able to boot it up without any trouble.

Noob let me choose some OSes, I tried Rasbian, OpenElec and RapXbmc. OpenElec crashed on me when I let it idle.

But I was curious, if I want to install another OS, I'll need to format the SD card again? Or go in recovery mode?

I messed up the keyboard setting in Rasbian and might need to read how to change it back to another language.

But I was curious, if I want to install another OS, I'll need to format the SD card again? Or go in recovery mode?

I'm not sure what the current cards look like, but when I first installed Raspbian, it was just a matter of DDing an image file to the SD, and then booting up with it. Do the current card images come with multiple OSes?

I messed up the keyboard setting in Rasbian and might need to read how to change it back to another language.

At a command line, run 'raspi-config'. Go to "4. Internationalisation Options" and then "I3 Change Keyboard Layout".

However, running that remotely over ssh isn't working for me right now, so you may have to be on the console to actually make the change. I assume it's not outright broken. This may be a bad assumption; I'm on the 'testing' release, not 'stable'.

And a full sequel is announced: Raspberry Pi 2

Let’s get the good stuff out of the way above the fold. Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Model B+), featuring:

- A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance)
- 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)
- Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1

Because it has an ARMv7 processor, it can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10.

Looks like everything else is the same, literally, as they are keeping the price identical.

Linux Voice performed some benchmarks and multi-threaded is of course where the boost is mostly felt. Single core processes still stated to be 1.7x faster, though - that's nothing to sneeze at. Everything else is mostly unchanged.

Well, it strikes me that one of the major problems with the current Pi is that the I/O is quite slow; it runs everything through a single USB 2 bus, so there just isn't a whole lot of system bandwidth available. It looks like the Pi 2 is the *exact* same thing, just with a faster processor glued on.

I'm sure some things will be much better, and the extra RAM will be very important, but I suspect that, much of the time, it won't be much faster than the Pi 1.

Same price either way, so you'd want to buy a 2 if you're buying one new, but the difference may not be as dramatic as it would first appear from the simple specs.

edit: yanno, the major difference will probably be for desktop use. That'll probably be much better on the 2. The 1G of RAM is going to make a huge difference there.

Microsoft will be releasing a version of Windows 10 for the Pi 2. It will be free as well. This excites me because we may be able to replace the PCs we have running our slideshows with these now as long as the version of Windows 10 for the supports domain functionality (which is a big if).

Rykin wrote:

Microsoft will be releasing a version of Windows 10 for the Pi 2. It will be free as well. This excites me because we may be able to replace the PCs we have running our slideshows with these now as long as the version of Windows 10 for the supports domain functionality (which is a big if).

There is a non "RT" build (Phone/Tablet) coming for ARM? Awesome news.

TheGameguru wrote:
Rykin wrote:

Microsoft will be releasing a version of Windows 10 for the Pi 2. It will be free as well. This excites me because we may be able to replace the PCs we have running our slideshows with these now as long as the version of Windows 10 for the supports domain functionality (which is a big if).

There is a non "RT" build (Phone/Tablet) coming for ARM? Awesome news.

It may still be their RT version, the story I read wasn't clear on that point.

Microsoft's official Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2 announcement

We’re excited to announce that we are expanding our Windows Developer Program for IoT by delivering a version of Windows 10 that supports Raspberry Pi 2. This release of Windows 10 will be free for the Maker community through the Windows Developer Program for IoT.

Windows 10 is the first step to an era of more personal computing. This vision framed our work on Windows 10, where we are moving Windows to a world that is more mobile, natural and grounded in trust. With the Windows for IoT developer program we're bringing our leading development tools, services and ecosystem to the Raspberry Pi community!

We see the Maker community as an amazing source of innovation for smart, connected devices that represent the very foundation for the next wave of computing, and we’re excited to be a part of this community.

We are excited about our partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and delivering a version of Windows 10 that supports Raspberry Pi 2, and we will be sharing more details about our Windows 10 plans for IoT in the coming months.

More about Windows Developer Program for IoT

They bought Mojang.
They bought or are buying Revolution (a company specializing in, ahem, "value-add" products for the R language).
Now Windows on a Pi.

I think that's pretty cool. Maybe we'll get back to some decent competition.

The element14 site seems to be screwed up. I wanted to order one of these!

Gaald wrote:

The element14 site seems to be screwed up. I wanted to order one of these!

MCMElectronics.com is their sister site. They are right up the road from where I'm at in Ohio.

trueheart78 wrote:
Gaald wrote:

The element14 site seems to be screwed up. I wanted to order one of these!

MCMElectronics.com is their sister site. They are right up the road from where I'm at in Ohio.

Yeah? Oh, Springboro. Nice. Might have to make a sojourn.

muraii wrote:

They bought Mojang.

Now Windows on a Pi.

My hope is this means Minecraft Pi will get some love.

muraii wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:
Gaald wrote:

The element14 site seems to be screwed up. I wanted to order one of these!

MCMElectronics.com is their sister site. They are right up the road from where I'm at in Ohio.

Yeah? Oh, Springboro. Nice. Might have to make a sojourn.

Don't get too excited. They are just a warehouse, where you could pick up your deliveries instead of having them shipped.

we are moving Windows to a world that is more mobile, natural and grounded in trust.

"Grounded in trust" probably means "Microsoft trusts it", not that you should: it's quite likely to mean that the system will be locked down.

'Tweaker maakt Nin10do-console op basis van Raspberry Pi'
For the few gamers that don't speak Dutch: A guy that frequents tweakers.net site,
built a Nin10do-console based on the Raspberry Pi.
http://tweakers.net/geek/101168/tweaker-maakt-nin10do-console-op-basis-van-raspberry-pi.html
There is a video in the article. Guy speaks Dutch. But he shows all kind of different emulators on it as well.
The computer case has been printed by a company, using a 3D printer with xt-polyester.

Sparhawk wrote:

'Tweaker maakt Nin10do-console op basis van Raspberry Pi'
For the few gamers that don't speak Dutch: A guy that frequents tweakers.net site,
built a Nin10do-console based on the Raspberry Pi.
http://tweakers.net/geek/101168/tweaker-maakt-nin10do-console-op-basis-van-raspberry-pi.html
There is a video in the article. Guy speaks Dutch. But he shows all kind of different emulators on it as well.
The computer case has been printed by a company, using a 3D printer with xt-polyester.

That is pretty awesome looking..