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Raspberry Pi
« 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
« Last Edit: April 03, 2014, 03:28:39 PM by Othko97 »
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2014, 03:19:29 PM »
I do not have one. What exactly is one?

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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2014, 03:28:10 PM »
It's a credit card sized computer! I should probably add a link really :P
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2014, 08:38:07 PM »
Sounds alright. Can it do much?
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2014, 08:42:32 PM »
Didn't DD get one of these?

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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #6 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 :)

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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2014, 11:46:05 PM »
Bet it can still run text adventures fine ;)
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2014, 08:20:39 AM »
If I ever finish mine :/ alas revision must go on

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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #10 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
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #11 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?

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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2014, 09:23:49 PM »
Like £30.
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #13 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
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Re: Raspberry Pi
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2014, 02:09:28 PM »
The pip boy idea sounds like it could turn out incredible, good luck with it :)