Raspberry Pi Catch-All

...Holy crap that has potential.

A lot of potential.

Speaking of small computers, I just found this today. How awesome would this be? Sure it's expensive as all hell, but man that looks cool.

Edwin wrote:

Speaking of small computers, I just found this today. How awesome would this be? Sure it's expensive as all hell, but man that looks cool.

Who's network you trying to hack?

Edwin wrote:

Speaking of small computers, I just found this today. How awesome would this be? Sure it's expensive as all hell, but man that looks cool.

Nice.. I've been looking for something like this for pen testing.. ordered.. will report back

Tigerbill wrote:
Edwin wrote:

Speaking of small computers, I just found this today. How awesome would this be? Sure it's expensive as all hell, but man that looks cool.

Who's network you trying to hack?

No one's as I'm not really buying one. But if I ever wanted to do testing of my own, that would be a nifty tool to have.

Time to decide if I really want to get one of these or not. I just got the email with my code in it.

Isn't it like super cheap? Why not?

With international shipping and taxes it is a bit more and it isn't expected to ship for 12 weeks and I am just not sure what I would really do with one.

I got a UPS tracking number.

I got a case with mine and I am going to glue some velcro on it and the back of my TV so it can just stick there. Then I am going to install XBMC and finally stop having to deal with all the sh*tty streaming media servers out there.

The proper solution is to get VLC working on my Logitech Revue, but that won't be for a while. Plus if I don't end up wanting to keep the RasPi, I can mail it to my little niece in Mexico so she can have her own kid friendly computer.

BBC has a follow-up article talking about a new 5Mpx camera that's coming out for it as well. My favourite quote from the article:

"It's been completely crazy," Eben Upton told me afterwards. "At Christmas last year we thought we might sell 10,000 of these devices, so to be sitting here with 200,000 out in the wild and plans to get to a million by the end of the year is just incredible."

My Raspberry Pi arrived a few weeks ago but only just got round to being able to play with it properly. I've gone the simple route so far and just set it up as a media center and stuck XBMC on it. It's pointed it at my NAS drive so I can watch films and music on the TV and so far very impressed.

Still got a couple of bugs I need to iron out but for the price it is amazing what this little device currently blu-tacked to the rear of the TV can do.

Anyone else taken the plunge yet? Would be interested to hear what its being used for.

There is a new guide that's been pushed out, $11 for the e-version: Raspberry Pi -A Quick Start Guide (via The Pragmatic Bookshelf)

I placed my order more recently than most. I think the current estimate for mine is still a couple of months away. Planning on blu-tacking it to the back of my second monitor and setting up Synergy to allow seamless use of the keyboard & mouse from the gaming desktop.

That Synergy is a good idea. So far not really needed to worry about keyboard and mouse as I'm using my iPhone as a remote for XBMC (it's surprisingly responsive).

Thanks for the link to the quickstart guide trueheart.

You guys have any updates for yours? I'm not sure what my rationale was for waiting for them to be readily available since that means I've been waiting longer than if I'd just ordered one, but I finally placed my order for two. My immediate plan is to have one for trying it as an XBMC and/or Linux platform and one for general electronics dabbling like a super Arduino.

Found this today thanks to Lifehacker: Cambridge Pi programming tutorials, including writing your own OS.

[Edit] Whoa! They showed a 40 day lead time on them from Newark but I just got a shipping notification. Hopefully it's not just because they generated a shipping label in advance.

Yay! Just got my two. Way faster than I was expecting, luckily it beats my expected Digisparks.

I just got accepted to get this shipped to me with a decent-looking case for $62.50

For some reason, he took the case off his listings though. Guess I'm getting the last one. But here it is: Rapsberry Pi Case

I figured with shipping and taxes, this is not a bad price at all. I'm wondering if I can get XBMC running as well as a web server and keeping everything running smoothly, especially if it's overclocked. If that works, I might just need a network hard drive for storage and skip the home server completely. At least for the time being.

Malor wrote:

I just saw that the graphics hardware on the Pi is going to require all sorts of closed-source libraries.

YUCK.

And now, this situation has been fixed: Broadcom open sourced the video drivers used in the Pi.

Also of note (but not as cool as above), the model B now comes with 512MB RAM

trueheart78 wrote:

Also of note (but not as cool as above), the model B now comes with 512MB RAM

Yeah, I got mine a few weeks before that. Oh well... I'm sure the RAM would be pretty useful though.

Of course, whenever I try to do anything on it, the CPU spikes, so I'm sure that's probably more of a bottleneck.

But then again, not really, as opening more than one internet tab brings everything to a grinding halt.

It makes a great local web server though.

Actually, with those open source drivers, that should hopefully speed up all of the Linux distros once they incorporate them, which should be pretty slick. XBMC should run much better as well. Maybe even VLC will be able to play videos now!

*Legion* wrote:
Malor wrote:

I just saw that the graphics hardware on the Pi is going to require all sorts of closed-source libraries.

YUCK.

And now, this situation has been fixed: Broadcom open sourced the video drivers used in the Pi.

Wow, that's great news! I might pick one up next month sometime.

Malor wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
Malor wrote:

I just saw that the graphics hardware on the Pi is going to require all sorts of closed-source libraries.

YUCK.

And now, this situation has been fixed: Broadcom open sourced the video drivers used in the Pi.

Wow, that's great news! I might pick one up next month sometime.

Looks like it's not that simple.

I've just started up an small planted aquarium after being out of the hobby for years, but these look like they'd be fun to learn to use as aquarium monitors/controllers. Arduino's are used sometimes for this purpose, too. Or you could even use a combo of both if you had a bunch of parameters.

Sigh. *crosses Pi off the to-buy list*

MannishBoy wrote:

Arduino's are used sometimes for this purpose, too.

Arduino's are used for homemade reef controllers quite often.

Despite knowing nothing about electronics or programming I have a strong urge to build one for my reef tank.

fleabagmatt wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Arduino's are used sometimes for this purpose, too.

Arduino's are used for homemade reef controllers quite often.

Despite knowing nothing about electronics or programming I have a strong urge to build one for my reef tank.

Yep. It's not even that it would be cost effective, especially in my low tech plant/shrimp tank. Just sounds like a fun project.

You might be interested in this, Mannish:

Pi Crust breakout board makes it easy to get peripherals on Raspberry Pi

It apparently makes it much easier to reach and work with the GPIO pins, which is how you talk to random electronic devices with both a Pi or an Arduino.

Malor wrote:

You might be interested in this, Mannish:

Pi Crust breakout board makes it easy to get peripherals on Raspberry Pi

It apparently makes it much easier to reach and work with the GPIO pins, which is how you talk to random electronic devices with both a Pi or an Arduino.

Yeah, that sounds interesting. Sounds like a more formal version of that kit that was available called the Gertboard.

I finally actually ordered one, along with a clear case.
A guy at work has one, he's using it to monitor his home beer brewing.

Diving into it more and more now that I've got some quality time off.

I picked up the Raspberry Pi User Guide for $6.60 on the kindle ($12.89 for the printed version). So far, it's been worth the money - I enjoy a good backstory, as it's written by one of the co-creators.

It also points to TheMagPi.com for some more reading - definitely bookmarking it for later.