Nerds assemble! Raspberry pi close to launch date.

It's a port, it could theoretically get all of it working on an x86 platform. It would also require a second port for ARM, what they might just end up doing is porting the normal Android for it. It is entirely possible that we get a well working android port for the PI that has full functionality.
 
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I am been thinking about mine as for telementry for fpv as I could use RTTY communicating with an arduino or gpio.
I was going it on my quadcopter but it's just running out of room. So I will have one at the ground station hooked up to a secondary TV which will show a live map of the quadrotor.
 
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estebanrey said:
Would you put a bit of chipboard in your pocket? Wouldn't you be worried about some of the components getting knocked off if you bumped into something?

And why can't you do the above with a smartphone?
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That's why cases were invented..
Smartphones can't run xmbc and this is much cheaper.
 
easyrider said:
Woot its arrived

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Nice!
Mine has just been shipped woooooooooo.
 
SD card ready, gparted makes it a breeze.
Should have came today but apparently it hasn't :(.
I got a RS activation code, don't know what I can do with it really. Haven't really got enough money for another one and I have another project I am working on.
 
Munkyman said:
Thats good to know, i must be typing it in wrong then. Do you know what region the keyboard is set to, it is UK isn't it?
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I don't know, type the password in the name field to make sure it comes up correctly.


Biz.Kid09 said:
Looking to order one of these, Where have you guys ordered?

I am looking to use it for playing movies/photos on my main TV. Rather than buy a WD Live or similar. This will be fine for that i assume? or have i got the wrong idea about this!

Thanks
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Farnell & RS you can get it.
Yes XBMC does seem to run fine, a bit tricky to setup at the moment. I might put RASPBmc on a card later on and see how it runs.
 
easyrider said:
Just watched a film in the cinema room using the PI

Worked flawlessy in using the Raspbmc build

Streamed and skipped an paused with DTS audio fine.

Very odd for 27 quid and so small lol....The kids were in wonder! lol

Forgot to mention thsi was streamed over the network from the server too
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Yeah I am still playing with debian, just tried out omxplayer and oh my god it's amazing, handles 720p fine!
 
Meatball said:
I will buy one of these 100% if it can playback Blu-Ray MKV rips, although I doubt something costing £27 can handle 1080p and HD audio?
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I will see tomorrow, I am pretty sure it can.
Anyone running raspbian here? Heard it's better than squeeze but to be honest, it's actually very good in its current state.
I do want to try Open ElEC and raspbian but I need a few more sd cards. Very pleased so far.
 
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SKILL said:
I got my second Pi today it seems, along with a nice t-shirt from Farnell, huge Element 14 logo and small Raspberry Pi one :p

Had the first one a couple of weeks but didn't get much time to play with it until this weekend just gone, built and used OpenELEC and it was completely painless which is always nice.

Did some brief testing with some reasonable quality mkv's (~1.3Gb for a 42 minute file) and it performed well, it was a bit laggy when you brought up the menu over the video but for playing the files it was fine.

So yeah, quite impressed with it for £24 should make a nice media player, now to decide whether I really need two or to get rid of one :p

My main problem is because I can't get Windows 7 to share a directory without requiring a password, ended up using a linux vm and NFS to get the share working for xbmc, but need to sort out a NAS at some point anyway...
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You can quite easily mount smb shares with passwords, never played with OpenElec though so maybe it has some restrictions.
 
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