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Got mine ordered, any other RR'ers getting one? Not sure what to do with it yet, I got it as Linux and coding knowledge will be quite useful at work. I want to train to do security testing so a low level understanding of network stuff will be great. I'm thinking of developing a email server or similar to learn how they work.
If you've got one on order put your plans and or thoughts here
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MiataMark
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Registered with RS for one, no firm plans as yet probably use it stuck to a monitor to work as a web browser. Or to form the basis of a print/storage home server, or a media PC....
Mark
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I'm sort of tempted by them, but have no current plans to buy. It might make a nice change from hacking everything from PDAs to robot dinosaurs.....
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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I've registered my interest but as of yet I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. I think I'll start off with using it as a media centre type thing and then move it onto something semi useful. I'd love to be able to hook it up to MIDI and do some musical jiggery with it, but I might see what the community does first.
I'm sure SOC, if you mixed an arduino, Raspberry Pi and your general hackery skills things could be quite interesting!
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I'm registered with RS too. I'm interested in using it in the car for whatever or as an iPlayer thing in the house.
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Might be useful for some form of home automation controller as well...
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I've seen a project to use one as a NAS with a external harddrive plugged in to the USB as it'll run 1080p video it could be a good project to have 2. One as a server and another connected to your tv as a client to stream the video to and to access iplayer, Netflix etc
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I am registered with RS, very excited about this! The XBMC release will be brilliant but as a NAS box, you are limited to USB 2.0 data transfer speeds which decreases the usability of it IMHO.
I will be using my first one as a Media Centre head and from there, we shall see!
With regards to automation e.t.c. there is something called a Gertboard that is a daughter board type thing (A bit like an Arduino shield in concept) that will allow for control outputs!
Really, really looking forward to hearing from RS!
Rysz.
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Same here, Registered with RS but I'd be surprised if I get one from this "batch", even though I registered at 6:01 AM on the supposed release day.
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I know there will be limitations but I want it more as a toy to see what I can do rather than a proper solution. That said there are gpio pins, I wonder if they could be used for an esata interface to speed up data transfer
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Does anyone know if it can run Windows media player? and also whether it is possible for it to run Microsoft Excel?
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Does anyone know if it can run Windows media player? and also whether it is possible for it to run Microsoft Excel? Not really no. It'll run Linux so I presume there'll be a media player you can use and I'd expect it'll run OpenOffice or some other derivative of a Linux office suite. As it's an ARM processor, Windows 8 could possibly run on it in theory, but I seriously doubt it's got the beans to run it
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suppose I could use them, just cause I might have plans to install one of these along with a small monitor (about 7") and then a portable hard drive to make an in car computer.
Its either that or just buy a radio.
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i quite fancy one as a XMBC player rather than the playon box i just bought (does xmbc support iplayer etc?)
hadnt thought about using one in a car, but its size says it should go well. would you be limited some some sort of lilliput type screen, or could you hack one of those cheap double din boxes on ebay to install it into?
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Its just a quick thought I had whilst looking at it but by the looks of it could be suitable. Music Player Video player Very Small size so could be tucked away behind a screen, could make the whole thing removable as one just by unplugging leads for power and speakers. Allowing you to use it in house as a tablet. Turns on and off just by removing/giving power, so could wire it up so turns on with ignition. Think I read it would be 5v, so fine for a car if you if you make your own power supply. Only things that I'm thinking may be an issue is the cost of the screen (still not sure what to do here) And how I would get it to work with the normal car speakers? any ideas? But if I can get it to work for lets say less than £130 (using second hand parts like keyboard and mouse and possibly screen) then I think I may have a carputer
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ohh i didnt know these were about yet, would love one just for XMBC ext, whhich linux distro's are ready?
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Getting mine delivered early April. They're turning off the analog TV signal here this week so it'll be getting a wifi dongle and being pressed into use as a mythtv front end so I don't have to go out and buy a digi box.
Mostly it will be for the kids to play with though. A local bargain basement shop has Crayola kids keyboards in for £8 so I'll probably splash out and get one of those. Might actually cram the Pi into the back of it if it will fit.
I heard Fedora is their main distro which is as good as any other. Apparently there are difficulties with getting Ubuntu/Mint to work on it.
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Ubuntu made a fuss about having nothing to do with raspberry pi, they won't do a version that can run on the arm chip rpi have used. They have just released an arch arm Linux distro for it and fedora have developed a version for it
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I registered with RS at the weekend. Ive been downloading the instructional videos from the Raspberry Pi youtube page. I'm unsure what I'll be doing with it. I don't have a TV. So watch dvds or Iplayer downloads on my laptop. I could use the Pi as a media player. Probably lower power consumption than my laptop too. Ive been wanting to learn how to use Linux. Ive got a Dummies book with a Suse disc on it. It says on the Pi videos that youve got to be running Linux on your pc to set up the SD card for the PI.
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