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I just can't believe they didn't put any drat holes in the board for mounting.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2012 21:11 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 02:46 |
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Space Gopher posted:One of the big attractions for this is "feel free to gently caress it up, you can just restore it!" You know, from that other PC you have. Not to mention, it'd sure be nice to teach people to use modern programming tools, rather than just saying "well print() statements were a good enough debugger for me..." Even if you do manage to screw up the boot, it's not like you need 1:1 desktop per raspberry pi. You just need access to a single public PC to download a unfucked SD image and load it on there. In fact, I'm betting you could get a cheapo USB SD reader, and have your friend's pi recover your SD card for you, no desktop PC at all.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2012 21:45 |
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So, are there people working on porting android to this? I was just discussing with a friend how this would be pretty neat for a carputer running android possibly. Is there anything about the board that would make it unsuitable or especially difficult to run Andriod on?
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2012 22:54 |
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OptimusMatrix posted:I just bought one so I can use it as a cheap media streamer. Anyone know if this thing will suppport SDXC cards?
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2012 23:50 |
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Install Gentoo posted:So you actually want programming classes to start costing money, so that students will have to take home something that they may not be able to use? What's wrong with doing what schools with programming classes do now where you are given access to what you need for it for free? Schools are not going to suddenly be forcing every poverty stricken family to spend the last of their food money on these. Give it a loving rest and stop threadshitting. peepsalot fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 6, 2012 |
# ¿ Mar 6, 2012 01:51 |
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Well, I mainly want (my first) one for HTPC/XMBC use, but I'm also thinking this could be a nice robotics platform, probably enough power to do a bit of video processing: plug in USB camera, strap to roomba, or better yet XV-11 with laser rangefinder and program it to do all kinds of autonomous cool stuff.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2012 02:59 |
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Good news! They passed certification already.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2012 06:29 |
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I don't know a lot about the various arm processor versions to say if it would be easily portable to raspi, but Smoothie firmware is a CNC controller firmware designed to run on ARM (Cortex M3) processors. As far as I know it is a standalone firmware that doesn't run on top of any OS like linux. Besides porting or writing the controller software, the other main issue I think is whether or not there is enough GPIO pins exposed to handle 3 (or more) motor controllers, plus various other accessories(for ex. in 3d printing, hotend heater/thermistor, heated bed heater/thermistor, 4 axis X/Y/Z/extruder, limit stops, fan control).
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2012 03:53 |
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Aurium posted:Interestingly enough, at this point I've argued on both sides of this issue. A fully assembled RAMPS board (not including the Arduino mega or Pololus) runs about $85. So basically what I'm getting at is that if it is possible to make a daughterboard for raspi that can break out enough pins over i2c or whatever to perform similar function as RAMPS, for similar price, then that could possibly make quite a few people happy. The whole intermediate parallel interface idea is foreign to me, and seems extraneous. Edit: This diagram shows how all the stuff interfaces with the RAMPS board. Dual extruder(what the 5th stepper driver would be for) is optional and not widely used at the moment. peepsalot fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Apr 20, 2012 |
# ¿ Apr 20, 2012 02:43 |
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I just stumbled across this thread on the raspberry pi forums about processor configuration/ overclocking. Something which hadn't really crossed my mind before, but could be a lot of fun. Bascially you can overclock by simply editing a text file. Dom says he's already been running 1Ghz(from a baseline 700Mhz) and short tests at 1.15Ghz. I wonder how much higher is possible with addition of heatsink/heatsink+fan/liquid cooling/dry ice/LN2
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2012 04:54 |
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Anyone received one in the mail yet?
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 21:30 |
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Yeah, got notification this morning that my order has shipped. Wee.
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# ¿ May 2, 2012 16:03 |
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Got the pi in today. Running the main debian image from the raspberrypi.org. This thing is super annoyingly slow, more than I thought it would be. I already overclocked it to 1Ghz. I hope there is still much room for improvement from software optimizations.
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# ¿ May 10, 2012 09:43 |
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Shane-O-Mac posted:What are you using it for? I wanted to get one as an HTPC, but if it's performing badly I may change my mind. The plan was to use it to replace my old Xbox 1 running XBMC. Based on the current performance i have no idea how it will be able to do that, I'm hoping it's all in the software optimizations, I don't know if they are taking adavantage of any video acceleration yet or whatever other special instructions. There's no RaspBMC image yet to try out, so gotta wait a while.
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# ¿ May 10, 2012 20:19 |
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I was searching for a fast SD card to be used with the pi, and I found these SD card benchmarks from Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-sd-cards/benchmarks,125.html Shows a whole bunch of charts using different benchmarking programs. I'm not 100% sure what to make of all of it as far as what's the best card for general linuxing, but I ended up just buying one of the "Patriot EP Series (32 GB, UHS-I)" because it seemed to perform in the top tier for most tests, and at a really nice price for all that capacity. Also, what the hell is going on with "Samsung Plus (16GB, Class 10) MB-SPAGA" in some of the h2benchw results? It scores like 1000 times faster than the other, but this seems like some sort of error since the other benchmarks show nothing like that. Maybe some weird caching thing going on with the controller on this chip? Or just incorrectly recorded test results?
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# ¿ May 17, 2012 08:15 |
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SquallStrife posted:If you want better performance from your Pi, it's much much faster if you use a USB HDD, or even mount root over NFS.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2012 03:37 |
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You could do the same with a couple of these on the end of the ribbon cable instead of using a whole pcb. http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/SIP110-PPPC-D13-ST-BK/S9332-ND/2095341 There's probably also a single 2 row plastic connector somewhere with .3" row spacing that would fit a breadboard too. Edit: I think this one should work(couldn't find a 26pin, so I went up to 28): http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ADAM-TECH/FDP-28-T/?qs=TTVbHWoAP%2fQP8HTx%252b5csmA%3d%3d peepsalot fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Jul 3, 2012 |
# ¿ Jul 3, 2012 07:54 |
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Pweller posted:People who have already received their pis, what did you end up paying for shipping? (to which country) I ended up being charged $62.51 total from farnell, shipped to Austin, TX Oh and a $1.87 "Foreign transaction fee" on my CC.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2012 19:44 |
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Just wanted to chime in to say that RaspBMC has been working really well for me. Haven't come across a file that it wouldn't play well. The only slightly annoying issue is that the sound in the beginning takes a few seconds before it gets going for some reason (it stays in sync w/ video once it starts), and then the last couple seconds of video just freeze-frames and the audio cuts out. I've been using it with the official XBMC Remote for Android, which is really nice.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2012 20:27 |
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If anyone is interested in a super fancy milled aluminum case, there is an indiegogo campaign for one here http://www.indiegogo.com/arcol-raspi This guy is also active in the reprap 3d printer community and has produced some of the nicest hotends(for extruding molten plastic filament).
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2012 05:31 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuYLTudcOaM This video was posted on the raspberrypi.org blog recently, but this dude goes from very basic intro of how raspberry pi runs, to showing some cool custom daughterboard he made, blinkenlights, homemade inkjet, rpm sensor, remote controlled rover, etc.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2012 19:42 |
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http://www.raspbmc.com/
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2012 22:46 |
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Wow xbian really is great, I hadn't heard of it before and just switched over tonight. The difference in menu responsiveness is hard to believe. And I didn't even know HDMI could do this whole CEC thing, it worked first thing with no configuration required at all. No need to use android xbmc remote anymore
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2012 09:10 |
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porktree posted:Who's running Xbian? I put it on my Pi and let it chug along and update the libraries (overnight) - but I seem to be having a lot of issues streaming even low quality (SD) content from my media share. The same stuff runs without a hiccup through XBMC on my ATV 2, or streamed wirelessly to my iPad (using Airvideo). I'm going to load up a card with RaspBMC and see how that does with playback. Or, are there any tweaks I should try with Xbian? It shouldn't take overnight to update. Only took a couple minutes for me if i remember correctly. Are you using a wifi dongle with a spotty connection or something? Just sounds to me like you are getting terrible network speeds.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2012 22:32 |
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fcbarros posted:Yes, I got the same results, the interface is indeed greedy, I just hope this is still not fully optimized, because if it is, it is slow... stop using raspbmc
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2012 21:52 |
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Well, that's a shame, xbian was working very well for me. I didn't realize there was an issue with GPL violations. Judging by Koen's reactions, he sounds a bit immature to be leading such a project. So what's the consensus on raspbmc vs openelec. I tried raspbmc a while ago and was frustrated by the unresponsiveness of the menus. I guess this turbo update should hopefully fix all that though. I haven't tried openelec yet
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2012 20:02 |
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klosterdev posted:2. Can I remote desktop to it in any way? (Android as a remote would be best, Windows might work)
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2012 02:49 |
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So now that 512MB versions are out, I guess there's a huge shortage again. Is there any place I can order one for the US, and not just "register interest".
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2012 21:43 |
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Puddin posted:Anyone using a remote for this? My WiFi doest extend to the bedroom where ill be using this. If your display is a TV with it's own remote, the CEC feature should let you use your TV remote with XBMC. The button press data is forwarded to the pi through the hdmi cable.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2012 04:30 |
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Not sure, I just know it worked out of the box on my samsung led dlp which is a few years old.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2012 07:26 |
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Is there any way to send a yotuube link to xbmc from a desktop computer. I've used youtube addon very briefly, but the search interface drives me loving insane and gently caress trying to type on a tv remote. Also I don't like that I can't turn off saving my search history in that plugin.
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2012 23:17 |
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Smuckles posted:I ordered once of these Sunday night and it came this afternoon. I got RaspBMC running pretty easily. My TV remote is controlling it via HDMI-CEC without having to tweak anything. Overall, the performance is pretty decent for a $35 computer. I can't complain. it is needed if you want to watch mpeg2 encoded videos without it, mine would play the audio track but blank video
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2012 03:54 |
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What's the latest consensus on xbian vs raspbmc distros? Last I checked both projects were run by two stupid kids having slap fights and accidentally setting everyone's write-once bits.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 00:18 |
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What's usb loading? you have a separate partition on usb drive instead of sdcard?
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2013 02:13 |
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Le0 posted:Oh yeah I see that now, I went back to my XBMC and could notice that the pictures were kinda crappy.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2013 10:39 |
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blackflare posted:Last night I built a thing to put my pi in. I repurposed an old chocolate box from christmas: Looks good, i like the clothespin spacer
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2013 02:25 |
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I haven't tried OpenElec but the one thing that turned me away from it when I looked at it was that it's not based on any distro and therefore doesn't have a repository of packages that you can install if you feel it is missing anything. Raspbmc and Xbian are Debian based so you can get all the debs you want.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2013 02:30 |
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YouTuber posted:What exactly are you planning on adding here? Even with OpenElec and the Revision B RaspPi I'm practically pegging out the CPU and Ram so I can't see myself adding too many programs to it.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2013 20:59 |
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Raspberry pi ethernet port is only 100Mbit. I would imagine it would still be quite a bit faster than reading SD. I can't say I've tried networking booting yet though.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2013 12:36 |
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Since when is 10uF "super"?
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