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Raspberry Pi

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OCBucksFan;2310401; said:
Almost gone one of mine working and a DLNA renderer so I can stream music all over the house wirelessly, with it's low power and us having a synology NAS, it's a pretty ideal scenario and a much cheaper alternative to some of the DLNA capable speakers out there right now.
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I haven't played with media streaming yet. So far I've used the Pi as a text-to-speech chat box to relay text submitted via SSH on my iPad through eSpeak and annoy my coworkers and frighten my kids, and I've spent some time 'tuning' my image snapshots so I have a couple base platforms to work with (lighttpd, mysql, php, perl, wmaker, rxvt-unicode, etc ...) including my own wallpapers, so once I get into the real work with it, I don't have to roll back to vanilla Raspbian if I screw anything up.

My PiFace came in yesterday, so I'll spend some time this week learning Python I/O.
 
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Dryden;2310454; said:
I haven't played with media streaming yet. So far I've used the Pi as a text-to-speech chat box to relay text submitted via SSH on my iPad through eSpeak and annoy my coworkers and frighten my kids, and I've spent some time 'tuning' my image snapshots so I have a couple base platforms to work with (lighttpd, mysql, php, perl, wmaker, rxvt-unicode, etc ...) including my own wallpapers, so once I get into the real work with it, I don't have to roll back to vanilla Raspbian if I screw anything up.

My PiFace came in yesterday, so I'll spend some time this week learning Python I/O.
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Got my speaker streaming working, I use Debian on one of my systems here so getting around the unit has been easy. I have also been doing the same thing, I have an old DreamPlug sitting here so I knew the lessons of image and backup constantly.

My next plan is to get going with FreeRadius and SSL to implement Corporate WPA at the house. I ordered a couple arduino boards as well, those should be in next week and I got another Pi free with it, so I don't quite know what i am going to do with it, though I am considering building a mame machine for my little home bar setup, and there's already an image going around, but we'll see what I can accomplish with the arduino boards and the pi tied together before I make any decisions on that.
 
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There was a box sitting on my desk this morning. My new toy has arrived!

Adapteva Parallela Epiphany IV (64 core)

Sitting next to a Pi:
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(not my pic)
 
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CentralMOBuck;2312270; said:
I assume that's a more powerful version of a Raspberry Pi?
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It's a 64-core RISC co-processing daughtercard for Intel/ARM hosts.

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/interviews/parallella-supercomputing-for-the-masses

BTW, if anyone is interested in buying toys right now, I received a 15% promo code (THANKS1) from Newark with the order of my PiFace. Apparently this voucher is good for just about everything they sell, except Pis, of course. Good through March 31.
 
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Sent a memory card and pi to my moms house running a reverse SSH tunnel here to my house in Singapore, this way I can actually access some of the US sites that are blocked due to country restrictions, well really it's so I can give my parents some support because even though I am on the other side of the world they mail me telling me their computer is broken :(
 
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Muck;2308656; said:
I picked up two of them awhile back. The plan is to stick one on the back of an old touchscreen LCD & mount it in a shadowbox/frame hung in the kitchen. It'll be used as primarily as an electronic cookbook & media center, when not in use it'll be the usual electronic picture frame.
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I am thinking about getting one of these guys for just this purpose. Any tips/tricks you have for a complete imbecile in this field would be appreciated.
 
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knapplc;2312622; said:
I am thinking about getting one of these guys for just this purpose. Any tips/tricks you have for a complete imbecile in this field would be appreciated.
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Get a pi someplace in-stock:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-512MB-V...055?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f210062bf

$47.94 shipped isn't bad, since you won't be charged sales tax (it's $35 retail, but you'll pay shipping and tax through most non-eBay sellers). I bought mine from this dealer and had it ~72 hours after my order.

Buy or scavenge a SanDisk Class 6 SD card, minimum 4Gb, preferred 8-16Gb. I've benchmarked several SD cards I had on hand from my digicams plus a couple I bought after reading performance notes on Pi forums. The Class 6 cards appear best for random 4k r/w. 'High performance' Class 10 SD cards really aren't great for this application since they're optimized for large sequential access.

If you're going to hide a Pi behind a touchscreen and want to keep things tidy, consider a Pibow case with the optional VESA mount board -- attach the Pi permanently to the monitor.

http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow-vesa-mount-layer

You'll need a 5V/1A micro USB charger to power the Pi as well. Any Android compatible charger should do. The Model B Pi itself is in the range of 700mA, plus you'll have another 140mA each on the USB ports. If it's underpowered you'll experience non-responsive input sensitivity as the USB ports lose power.

Any Realtek rtl8192cu chipped WiFi USB-nub can be used to add WiFi out of the box. The EdiMax and AirLink 101 adapters are most popular. These can found for ~$10 all over the Web.

That's about it. Everything else is setting up free/open source software.

Most tech-junkies will already have half of what they need in 'junk drawers' around their house. But even if you have to buy everything, it's still < $100 (except the monitor, of course).
 
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Late to the party, but I love my Pi. I use mine pretty much exclusively for media streaming - I installed OpenELEC as the OS, which boots right into XBMC. Set up the windows tower in the basement to share via smb and wa-lah, all my movies/TV shows streamed to the living room.

One of the add-on's is ESPN3 that taps you into WatchESPN without a cable subscription.
 
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