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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Someone is selling a raspberry pi at work but.. They don't know which model it is. How can I tell? |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Any codes printed on the board? |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
I can't tell... Those are the best pictures I've got of it. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Ask the seller? |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
I think it's one of the early ones, pretty sure the current ones have more pins than that on the GPIO header. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Raspberry Pi 1 model B based on the diagrams on Wikipedia. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Cool.. Thanks. I know nothing about them but would like to put one inside an old NES. She wants £30 for this, a case, keyboard, mouse and book about it all. I might offer £25 and see how I get on. |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
A brand new Pi2 only costs £30. That's just the bare board though, no media or cables or whatever, but honestly the 2 is significantly more powerful the older ones. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
So what is the fuss with raspberry pi? Is it basically a really cheap underpowered computer and you provide your own monitor and peripherals, or is the joy that you solder all the parts on yourself or something? |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 13:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
There a a few fun things you can do with it. Mine runs raspian, which is an optimised version of Debian and so it's basically Linux with X for the GUI. It's very low power, and can be used with a network cable or wireless dongle for easy internet access. A lot of people do stuff like make cheap home security cameras that are obviously way cheaper and much more customisable than shit you'd otherwise buy. I've used mine as a media server (XBian) which can pull stuff off the network or a USB drive to stream stuff on a TV with HDMI. A chuffload of other stuff I'm not imaginative to think of myself, but it's highly portable and a lot of people can run them for hours remotely on nothing more than a battery block. I've also got a version that as the AWS cli on it, meaning I can use an incredibly tiny computer to fire up giant clusters in the cloud, which in itself is kind of fun. |
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| Author: | Firefox [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 14:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
ElephantBanjoGnome wrote: A brand new Pi2 only costs £30. That's just the bare board though, no media or cables or whatever, but honestly the 2 is significantly more powerful the older ones.  Four faster processor cores instead of one, and double the RAM at 1GB. Having four USB ports is handy, too. I was really surprised at how snappy it feels! I use mine as a media player box using Kodi, but I understand that the Pi 2 is fast enough to easily run Playstation 1 emulators at full speed. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 14:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Needs more LEDs. |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
If anyone is actually interested in a Pi 2, there's an offer on a starterpack, which I'm contemplating: TNW offer |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Wed Oct 14, 2015 13:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Or just get this for £50: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vilros-Raspberr ... 00T53135O/ That's got everything you need to get rolling. That deal posted by Fop isn't great, and ignore that bollocks about those guides being worth $199, ha! There's so, so much free documentation available online from enthusiasts you'd never need to pay for it. |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Wed Oct 14, 2015 14:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Does anyone know about the raspberry pi? |
Wot HeebieBJs said. That looks a much better offer. Luckily I'm skint so I didn't go further than contemplating the one I posted. |
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