Rasberry Pi

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Paid for my Rasberry Pi last night. Looking forward to seeing what I can get out of it. A media player perhaps. Has anyone else got one/ordered one?

 

They reckon its capable for full 1080p so I'll be putting that to the test. I am going to find something fun to use it on, maybe a remote control something or other. It can run off 4 AA batteries too with a bit of messing. I'm just a total nerd mate, I'd have this and the speccy out of the loft ha ha

 

5 things you can do with your Pi

 

I think that's brilliant mate. Some will argue to just get a cheap laptop but I find something like the Rasberry Pi would enable kids and adults (I'm a big kid) to play with a bare bones technology, and bring out the hacker in you in the traditional sense, i.e. someone who wants to get the most out of a device, improve it, break it/fix it etc.

This is the XBMC specific distro people are working on for the Pi.

It would seem KidsRuby love the Rasberry Pi! See video here

Here is a link to Guides and Projects currently under way for the Pi. I particularly like the guides for turning it into a NAS controller here and the possibility that we can run a RISC OS here

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Free "Teaching Kids Programming" books and advice here, based on Python 3

 

Linus is a legend. While looking for info on what he'd said about the Rasberry Pi I also stumbled upon something called AROS Amiga Research OS! Their main site is here

 

Good work mate, have you done any programming on it? I am looking forward to getting mine. I've got a Netgear Stora NAS there not up to much so I'm going to see if I can come up with something. I've got two reasonably powered servers now too so I'm considering using it as a thin client for VMware View using the VMware View Open Client here

 

Got one at school and a pupil had Quake running on it with no latency at all. Was V Kool

 

Has to be done doesn't it. I'm also looking forward to getting some emulators on it

 

Still exposed but you can buy a case for under £5 or even print one off!

 

There are plenty of cases such found here and here amongst other places.

It's not aimed at kids specifically although in this day and age it could give them a taste of what people my age were doing 25 years ago i.e. spending 6 hours typing out some code on a Spectrum or similar just to draw a circle ha ha. It's a step toward throw away computing and can be used for basic programming right up to playing Quake 3 or running XBMC to stream your HD movies.