media server

I'll be making my own PMP.

Gentoo

>HTPC
>File server
>Programman linux toy
>A way to learn the ARM architecture
That's about it.

I don't think I'll need more than 4 of those, right?

Just to fuck around on, for £22 why not?

once i know that xbmc and bluetooth works properly on it, i'll buy one with a case to use as a htpc

HTPC
File Server
Seedbox
Low power WEB SURFAN
GAME EMULATAN

Fun.

Its a cheap piece of hardware to tinker with, do you need any other reason?

Its less than the price of a game, and you can use it for 50 million things.

One of which which I will do, is portable media player.

>implying ANYONE on /g/ actually ordered it and has it today
>and has it right in his hands this very second

>>23242457
How Will you see the screen? And how will you change the song and stuff.

>>23242360
i hope you never breed

>>23242360
I'm making a flight computer for a drone that I am building. Just think of how much stuff I can make it do.

Mess about, file server, web server for testing mah phpz.
>>23242390
Awesome

I'm going to buy several and make an arch linux cluster, which i'm then going to use as part of my arch linux costume.

>>23242475
>sold out in minutes
>implying I didn't try
;_;

>>23242479
HMDI output, i think he meant portable as in home to workplace etc... not using it on the bus.

I agree with this man:

Garrrr_Pirate:

You've been really rather generous considering what a huge car crash the whole launch has been.

All of these problems were predicted over and over to the RPi team. The only replies were ones of smug condescension that it was in hand.

Claiming that they had warned the resellers that this might happen doesn't really cut it I'm afraid, they didn't even have direct links to the products in place before the launch and just palmed the problem back. They couldn't answer anyone's questions as they didn't have any contacts at the resellers to speak to.

The RPi website stayed up because there was nothing on it, RPi.com was pulled shortly before the launch and Rpi.org didn't stay up all the time, it just managed better than Farnell and RS.

Farnell didn't enforce the one per customer rule so it seems likely that large numbers have been hoovered up by individuals. You can't order it outside of the UK if you're not a business.

I don't really see how they could have handled it worse tBH.

>>23242510
>needing a user interface to play music

>>23242501
>implying its even on sale in America yet.

>>23242510
Ah right, on the bus would be fucking epic.
>"Nice iFail, Check out my computer"

>>23242429
>low power web surfan.
It takes a long time to load a webpage.
Look at the videos.

>>23242528
>implying I live in your filthy country

I'm making a functional pipboy.

Robots,

All kind of robots

swimming, flying, walking robots

The possibilities are endless

But I already own a N900

>>23242534
epicjar.jpg

Retro games console. I checked the Debian repos and most of the emulators I'm looking for are there. Hardest part will be building a custom case.

>>23242563
Yeah, they have a board for servos now too, right? Fucking thin is going to rock. I am wondering how durable it will be.

>>23242554
Please post a video if you do.

>>23242597
LEGOS

I've not been too involved in the details. Tell me, does the HDMI on it carry sound? I understand there's just an analog jack?

>>23242536
Loads Links2 pretty damn quickly.

>>23242546
>europe
>not smelly as fuck

>>23242615

>>23242612

Will do. Only real issue that may occur is the case. Replicas cost hundreds apparently. May have to have a Chinese "Seed-Child" wrist mounted computer.

>>23242644
>implying the world only has two continents
You funny guy.

>>23242615
Thought about it, but I think I want to do something nicer. Something a little more unique.

>>23242689
Carve a wooden case.

>>23242608

I don't know, but I have an other platform that runs an atmega8535 that I will use to interface the motors and the sensors. The raspberry Pi will do the heavy navigation calculations and the network stuff (using a wifi dongle).

Called both US distributors, neither accept paypal, thank you lying yuropoors

>>23242597
Will it be possible to sell these, since its not licensed software?

>>23242700
It's on the table, among many other ideas. Thought about using a broken or empty 8-bit micro (I could never in good conscience gut a working one). Atari 400/800 would be a good candidate.

>>23242668
Just make your own out of whatever and a vacuum former.

>>23242597
lol I'll be using my dead psone case.

>>23242626
Worried about this too, No point in it being able to play 1080p if its just Left and Right phono channels. Anyone?

>>23242856
Really? It's a little big, compared to the device itself.

So why should these companies create a Pi with a case? They would lose profits.
They really should have kept this all locally controlled.

>>23242734
Don't see why not. It would be nice if the Puppy Arcade team could port to ARM. It would be the perfect distro for this.

I have a TV that I wouldn't using for more than DVD's and it only takes composite. This seems just the thing and much more powerful than most tv set top boxes

a mobile CP seedbox, with and IRC for sharing knowledge with my pedophile friends

>>23242597
3D printers?
3D printers

>>23242626
yes, hdmi carries sound.

>>23242915
I'm sure that's what a lot of people are genuinely thinking.

>>23242881
Cluster!

>>23242626
Yes.

>>23242983
I'm curious, what would you use a RPi cluster for?

Experience with embedded ARM
XMBC Box or just a media box in general (no noise and 1080p!)
Any use you could have for a normal computer that is low powered

I just hope they hurry up and get some reasonable shipping charges for the US, $20 is excessive. It's getting shipped from China --> UK --> US right now I believe.

>>23242884
The Pi foundation didn't make a case to keep the cost of the initial run to a minimum,
If it sells well then the foundation (as well as others) will likeely make cases.

>>23243005
Anything you'd like, I'd imagine. They'll be working on official instructions on a Pi cluster soon, as I've read on their forums. A 'Bramble', they've called it, which is nice.

no idea, but i ordered one

>>23243005
You could use Gnome3 instead of LXDE.

I might buy 4 of them for this reason; it would still be cheaper than a netbook.

>>23242963

TECHNOLOGY FUCK YEAH!!1

>>23242932
People were thinking about using the rasberry pi to drive 3d printers as an interface. Without the need for a controller laptop or pc.

>>23243027
No, they said they believe they could create a case and sell it with the Pi at the same price. But now they are not in control of manufacturing or prices, so they fucked themselves.

>>23243105
It'd be more powerful than one, too. But the portability would obviously be lost.

>>23242983
Unless it's just to fuck around with the performance of a computer cluster would be shit.

I did a linpack (very rough estimate of performance) run on a 1.6Ghz Atom and a 1.8Ghz Phenom II core to compare to the linpack numbers for the Raspberry Pi (found on their wiki).

>Single 800Mhz ARM core in RPi (using hardware FPU)
>Single 1.6Ghz Atom core is about 10x faster
>SINGLE Phenom II core at 1.8Ghz is 4.5x faster at linpack than the single Atom core

Granted ARM CPUs aren't exactly known for FPU performance, but still....

>>23243048
Cute.

Mine will control MIDI devices.
I will use some random 300MHz Pentium-class micro-PC (same size as RasPi) in the meantime though because a friend of mine doesn't need it and it'll take ages until that RasPi arrives.

>>23243132
I suppose so. The device itself would lack the input/output of a netbook as
well but peripherals are fucking cheap (or, in the case of old CRTs, free).

I'd probably use mine to start development work on a custom bitcoin os for mining and storing bitcoins once I have the bitforce single units at the end of march.

It's interesting that they've already bumped up the ram on the A model. I think that within a years time, they could build something at least twice as powerfull for the same price.

Silent torrent box.

>>23243238
This is likely the case - ARM are making huge advancements.

>>23243153
So 240 RPi's to equal a low clocked Hex-core Phenom II, assuming linear scaling of the cluster.

SOUNDS COST EFFECTIVE

I remember seeing a publication by Google arguing at some point having a smaller number of bigger cores is better because of the overhead of spreading the compute so widely gets out of hand.

>>23243395
>parallel computing
>linear scaling
>he hasn't heard of some dude I can't remember's bound on parallelization

>>23243214
ive only looked a little into bitcoin mining, can you explain more on what you want to do?

i would have a use for one, streaming to a TV i have. problem is, TV doesn't have wired ethernet by it (and my wireless sucks; good enough for basic web browsing, but will crumple and die if i try to send a 10mbit/s avc stream to it)

so yeah

>>23243395
if only AMD had based bulldozer on the RPi

>>23243417
Well it's a rough comparison, it just puts a lower bound on the price.

>Average price £80
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=media+streamers&tag=googhydr-21&index=electr
onics&hvadid=8915454513&ref=pd_sl_2ctxl21my8_b

RPi just put a whole lot of products out of business

Honestly.. i guess this is kind of a wierd thing to hate about it.

But i really wish they made the device longer and had all the ports space along a single side.

>>23243553
Will you be using xbmc? I'm using plex at the moment, there's currently nothing in the works for an ARM client.

Would the plexbmc plugin work with xbmc in the fedora arm build, you reckon?

>>23243583
Might be nice.

Is it overclock-able? I imagine a chunky RAM heatspreader would fit on the CPU.

>>23243647
no Idea. Personally I actually want it for a file server/print server router.

That would be most useful since my router is a shit.

>>23243583
Wasn't their design goal to put it on the exact dimensions of a credit card?

If so, it's quite a weird thing to hate.

>>23243701
There is nothing preventing it, they said the chip should be fine running at 800mhz.

Have they announced a model with a case yet?

>>23243726
Cool, it's not exactly costly to break.

1.0-1.2GHz would be nice.

>>23243553
You are working under the assumption that people who typically use media streamers are fully capable of creating their own chassis and installing an OS

I can charge over £50 for installing a streamer and setting up a NAS... Then again, the PI might let my shop roll their own streamers. which would be cool.

>>23243701

upto 800 MHz is the official answer to that question

Can you connect a HDD to it? How?

SD is very small..

>>23243893
>what is USB?

I wanna trade dads with OP.

>>23243912
Haha, true so it is impossible to connect SATA?

>We want to get this out to developers
>So we aren't shipping to the country that has the most developers

>>23243934
>we want to get this for all the students in schools to teach computer science to everyone
>so we are only selling it to companies

>>23243914
>that feel when i also have a dad like OPs

>>23243893
1. For media purposes, use an external hard drive over USB or (even better) use a networked drive shared in your home.

2. For all other purposes, 32GB is far more than enough (I make do with just 4GB on my netbook, including emacs/eclipse/other dev tools)

>>23243926
>What is USB-SATA adapter?

>>23243238
>bumped up the ram
Of how much memory are we talking about?

I plan on doing this OP

>>23244124
256MB - twice the amount needed for LXDE.

I'm hoping the next model has at least a gigabyte.

Would be great to set one of these up as a kiosk type system in a net café

Just need a browser up front and lock out other functions.

>>23244137
How is this going to work?

>>23244162
Alternately some kind of Point of Sale system could work.

BEST CUSTOM CASE

http://www.retrovia.ie/showthread.php/8491-Game-Boy-PC-%28Raspberry-Pi%29

>>23244144
I'm waiting for a 1GB model as well.

>>23244183
Can you be more specific? I would love to inform you.

>>23244272
First and foremost, what would you see?
Why would you need a GPS module?

And what is this picture about anyway?

Not trolling, I'm genuinely curious.

Im gonna use it to drive my nixie tube clock! I really hope it has enough computing capabilites to do so.

>>23244137
Do you have the glasses?
Have you tried It while carrying around a laptop or something?
Would be fuck awesome.

So I preordered one and I received an email with a delivery date of April 16th (i think), did you guys get the same date? I preordered at like 2:40am central time

I need 3 of them.

1. Desktop - it gets a usb hub and a hdd. raspie, hdd, power-brick and usb hub goes in a selfmade case.
2. Router/All-Purpose-Server - i already have a router but it lacks configuration. So it bridges all connections.
3. Backup (because I'm sure they break)

>>23244296
I envy you.

>>23243972
that feel when i don't have a dad.
=[

>>23244381
I can make you one if you tell me where your grandmother lives. That's what friends are for.

>>23244294
The picture shows the video glasses I plan on using as a display for Pi (Already own the glasses). You would need the GPS module to pinpoint your exact location thus enabling layer to pinpoint, display, and interpret the correct information.

If you would like to know more about Layer watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW9gU_4AUCA

>>23244419
That would be an uncle.
Marry his mother.

>>23244299
I do have the glasses and I have tried it with my cellphone using Layer. It is fuck awesome. Pi will make it even better.

>>23244419
>>23244451

What? That would be a Step-Grand father right?

>>23244435
Sounds pretty awesome as a concept, but what are its practical uses?

>>23244451
I already thought about this. I will raise it as a chinese boy and will force-marry him to his mother.

>>23244490
i.e. a great-uncle.

>>23244499
You can play with your waifu. And cheap advertising.

>>23244435

tell me more about those glasses. How do they connect? Port? Software? Hardware? Resolution? Specs? Link to website?

>>23244296
>>23244296

Haha. Nice one 9/10
Also nixie clocks ftw! I never actually got the time to make a case lol.

/g/, I want to get one to learn linux on. Making the case isn't a problem, I can have a pledge do that, but do I need anything else besides a monitor? Does it have more than one USB or will I need a hub? Can this thing even support a hub?

>>23244535
Neither of these seem practical enough to me.

Sorry bro.

>>23244549
There is a FAQ on the website you know. The specs are not that hard to look up.

>>23244540
Where'd you get the PCB and tubes?

>>23244549
a monitor, a keyboard and a gentoo-usb stick

does it have 2 usb ports?
I kinda want to use it as a usb protocol analyzer

>>23242360
I'm going to use it as an emulator box with loads of classic games on it.

I'm going to buy one of these (for £4.99), gut it, paint it and stick the Pi and a battery in it and make it a MobileMameBox.

>>23244567
I'm sure someone will find a use for it. But you are right for now. In the begging it will be a frivolous luxury item.

Google was working on something similar too if anyone was interested.

>>23244499
If you're walking down the street and you need to pull up a way to get to a specific building Layers will allow you to do this (it will actually be displayed in real time on your glasses). Just one of the many daily things I would use it for.

>>23244592
Yes.

>>23244628
>Google was
is

>>23244585
>>23244585

pcb is from here, the tubes were from a guy in my country. Fucking hard to find tubes with digits over 30mm tall
http://www.pvelectronics.co.uk/index.php

>>23244637
even the model a one?
thanks for responding

>>23244537
http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_wrap_1200vr.html

They have cheaper models of course, this is just the one that I am using.

>>23244691
So let me get this straight.

These are glasses with sound-insulating earphones which dub as monitor/speakers?

PORN MACHINE.

>>23244296

I have some Nixie (6. I stole them in a old voltmeter) and I want to make a clock with it.

What should I do?

>>23244661
Thanks bro

>>23242554
I thought about something like this.

What features would it have though?

>>23244755
>should I do?
Google it. There are many good guides online they could tell you how to do it better than /g/ could.

>>23244749
That is correct. I've never used mine for porn though.

>>23244800
You know what I meant.

Posting on /g/ drunk was a bad choice.

>>23244757

if you plan making one for yourself, you can find big tubes on ebay sometimes. Or ask here, ppl there have any tube you would like and not even overpriced

https://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l/topics?hl=en

>>23244664
No (but it's not on sale yet).

>>23243105
I don't like Gnome 3 or LXDE. If it runs it I will put xfce on it. If not openbox or something.

Does uk.rs-online ship to murrika?
I want one.

>>23244835
No, it never is.

>>23243274
This. My current box is loud as hell.

>>23244624
I was gonna do the same, but didn't think about putting it inside. Good idea.

Pity i can't think of any decent projects to use this for.

Would be kind of nice to build one into a Keyboard for an oldschool commadore style system

>>23244849
XFCE can run on 256MB, yes, but I wouldn't like to be the one to try it.

>>23244889
Well I'm not getting one until the next batch anyways.

>>23244848
Ahh thanks so much

>>23244849
>I don't like LXDE
>I'll put openbox on it

Is this nigga serious?