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Title: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Othko97 on April 03, 2014, 02:53:11 PM
Has anybody got one? I'm considering buying one to get Mathematica for £30 rather that £100, and I also think it would be a pretty cool thing to have :P

http://www.raspberrypi.org (http://www.raspberrypi.org)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Pentagathus on April 03, 2014, 03:19:29 PM
I do not have one. What exactly is one?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Othko97 on April 03, 2014, 03:28:10 PM
It's a credit card sized computer! I should probably add a link really :P
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Cuddly Khan on April 03, 2014, 08:38:07 PM
Sounds alright. Can it do much?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: comrade_general on April 03, 2014, 08:42:32 PM
Didn't DD get one of these?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Othko97 on April 03, 2014, 08:44:27 PM
I think he may have.

@Khan It can do most stuff, it's just not too good at really intensive stuff like games.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Tom on April 03, 2014, 10:08:55 PM
I was thinking about getting one of these a while back when they were realeased. Isn't it designed to get more kids in to programming or something? Its been a while since I've looked in to it but they are pretty cool :)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Jubal on April 03, 2014, 11:46:05 PM
Bet it can still run text adventures fine ;)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Tom on April 04, 2014, 08:20:39 AM
If I ever finish mine :/ alas revision must go on
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Othko97 on April 04, 2014, 08:23:48 PM
I'm pretty sure that it can handle games from at least the ZX and I think someone changed one into a Quake 3 machine, so there's hope there :P. It's probably worth buying one just to get Mathematica for £30 effectively.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Gen_Glory on April 05, 2014, 02:16:28 PM
I have one!

Its pretty nifty haven't really done much with it yet though
Am planning to teach myself some programming with it and just general computer know how
I am planning to make a pipboy with it
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Pentagathus on April 05, 2014, 06:11:55 PM
Learning computer bollocks would be useful, although tedious. How much do these fancy mini computer things cost?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Othko97 on April 05, 2014, 09:23:49 PM
Like £30.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Gen_Glory on April 06, 2014, 01:23:32 PM
I got mine for about £40 but it came with the OS already on an SD card, it also came with a case and all necessary cables

also picked up the dummies guide to raspberry pi for like £15
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Son of the King on April 06, 2014, 02:09:28 PM
The pip boy idea sounds like it could turn out incredible, good luck with it :)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Gen_Glory on April 06, 2014, 07:54:51 PM
yeah, I just need to make the actual pipboy.

If I have time after that I will try to create a pipboy interface or if i cant do that just use programs I can get online
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Othko97 on April 06, 2014, 10:08:28 PM
That sounds incredible!
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Gen_Glory on April 07, 2014, 09:41:31 AM
I know it sounds really amazing but in all honesty I'm just putting together parts whilst others did the hard work
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Flamekebab on August 30, 2014, 07:05:50 PM
Hopefully it's not considered bad form to respond to a topic that's a few months old.

I've been using my RPi to run my media centre. I love that something that runs from a phone charger can replace the full on desktop I used to use - it even decodes X264 natively!

I'm using OpenELEC and the PM3.HD skin. The skin doesn't perform quite as well as the defaults but it's the one I've used the most and I'm comfortable with it so I'll take the hit.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi
Post by: Cuddly Khan on August 31, 2014, 09:53:23 PM
It's fine, it's actually somewhat of a tradition around here to post in old topics. ;D