• Raspberry Pi - A supercomputer in your backpack
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i called starpluck on the case!
[URL="http://fsmsh.com/3674"]http://fsmsh.com/3674[/URL] Welp, slightly cheaper.
If I didn't start using the internet at an early age, that might have scared me
I was hungry earlier but now I'm not.
[QUOTE=Treybuchet;34181057][URL="http://fsmsh.com/3674"]http://fsmsh.com/3674[/URL] Welp, slightly cheaper.[/QUOTE] It's made by the chinese and i don't trust them i'll still go with the cheap british wonder
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;34181060]If I didn't start using the internet at an early age, that might have scared me[/QUOTE] I remember when I was a youngin, about 3-4 years ago, I had to frenziedly explain why there was a parrot perched on a dude's micropenis and other popular shock images on my screen, and why I couldn't close the window. That was one of my first steps to desensitizing myself, albeit accidental.
[QUOTE=Captain_Crazy;34180841]What would I use for the "hard drive" for this device? I'm guessing either the SD card or a fairly spacious USB thumb drive.[/QUOTE] It can only boot from SD Cards formatted in a special fashion.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34181168]It can only boot from SD Cards formatted in a special fashion.[/QUOTE] I thought you could boot from USB or whatever, too. [URL="http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/features-and-requests/boot-off-a-usb-stick"]Seems it does need to boot from the SD card first, though then you can boot whatever you want.[/URL]
[QUOTE=ief014;34180365]There's no way you could get an x86 computer on that tiny little thing. [/QUOTE] [img]http://bifferos.co.uk/cpu.jpg[/img] [url]http://bifferos.co.uk/[/url] [editline]12th January 2012[/editline] 150MHz CPU, Intel 486SX instruction set, MMU. 1 watt power consumption (200mA @5v) 68mm x 28mm x 21mm (weight 28g) 32MB SDRAM/8MB Flash OHCI/EHCI USB 2.0 10/100 ethernet
Damn, I've gotta buy a SD card then
It's basically Rasberry Pi but without a GPU. Automerge.
[QUOTE=benjojo;34181531][img]http://bifferos.co.uk/cpu.jpg[/img] [url]http://bifferos.co.uk/[/url] [editline]12th January 2012[/editline] 150MHz CPU, Intel 486SX instruction set, MMU. 1 watt power consumption (200mA @5v) 68mm x 28mm x 21mm (weight 28g) 32MB SDRAM/8MB Flash OHCI/EHCI USB 2.0 10/100 ethernet[/QUOTE] There's no way you could get a [B]decent[/B] x86 computer on that tiny thing without a huge heatsink seriously what are you going to do with 150 mhz and 32 mb RAM and it costs the same as the PI model B wtf
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34181618]There's no way you could get a [B]decent[/B] x86 computer on that tiny thing without a huge heatsink seriously what are you going to do with 150 mhz and 32 mb RAM and it costs the same as the PI model B wtf[/QUOTE] If you compare the architecture's then it is about the same "useful" speed as the Rasberry Pi.
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[QUOTE=latin_geek;34181618]There's no way you could get a [B]decent[/B] x86 computer on that tiny thing without a huge heatsink seriously what are you going to do with 150 mhz and 32 mb RAM and it costs the same as the PI model B wtf[/QUOTE] 150mhz on ARM11 != 150mhz on x86
[url]http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/emulating-a-raspi-on-windows[/url] Emulating the architecture the Raspberry Pi, based on a Windows host machine. And since the tutorial uses QEMU, with some knowledge that set-up can also be used on a Linux host machine. [B]EDIT:[/B] Oh and this is a different way of doing basically the same thing: [url]http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/virtualbox-vm-for-the-raspberrypi?value=qemu&type=1&include=1&search=1[/url] [QUOTE=KillerTele;34181560]Damn, I've gotta buy a SD card then[/QUOTE] THB you can get a brand name SD card for cheap. And it only needs to contain the boot kernel which is in the megabytes range.
While I agree the Raspberry Pi is nice because it has a GPU, I'm sure the board I posted above is more useful in some cases for small file servers (It has USB). Also the power usage is less than the Raspberry Pi, Any way I would still get a raspberry Pi. I do own one of those boards and they are pretty useful.
[QUOTE=benjojo;34181804]While I agree the Raspberry Pi is nice because it has a GPU, I'm sure the board I posted above is more useful in some cases for small file servers [B](It has USB)[/B]. Also the power usage is less than the Raspberry Pi, Any way I would still get a raspberry Pi. I do own one of those boards and they are pretty useful.[/QUOTE] but so does the Pi...?
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;34181823]but so does the Pi...?[/QUOTE] The point I was making was that you can just wack a external HDD on it and just leave it plugged in (My setup right now) [editline]12th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=NinjaTomate;34180513]I wonder if that Chrome OS would work on an ARM...?[/QUOTE] Hexxeh did port CR-OS onto the iPad (I'm [I]pretty[/I] sure thats ARM11) [img]http://www.thechromesource.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/chromeosipad.png[/img]
[QUOTE=benjojo;34181531][img]http://bifferos.co.uk/cpu.jpg[/img] [url]http://bifferos.co.uk/[/url] [editline]12th January 2012[/editline] 150MHz CPU, Intel 486SX instruction set, MMU. 1 watt power consumption (200mA @5v) 68mm x 28mm x 21mm (weight 28g) 32MB SDRAM/8MB Flash OHCI/EHCI USB 2.0 10/100 ethernet[/QUOTE] I stand corrected
[QUOTE=benjojo;34181659]If you compare the architecture's then it is about the same "useful" speed as the Rasberry Pi.[/QUOTE] I think it'd actually be a bit faster, I've seen benchmarks of the CPU in the RaspberryPI that put it around half the speed of a 100Mhz 486DX Edit: So I'd love to see the people going on about putting Windows 8 on it to actually try it.
Anyone else planning to make a gaming console out of this thing? I plan on making something like a gaming console interface to select games on the system. Plug in a controller and play the games on it. Plugs into a TV too, seems almost like an actual gaming console.
[QUOTE=ief014;34182531]Anyone else planning to make a gaming console out of this thing? I plan on making something like a gaming console interface to select games on the system. Plug in a controller and play the games on it. Plugs into a TV too, seems almost like an actual gaming console.[/QUOTE] I had the EXACT SAME idea, but then I thought "What kinda games are even able do run on this?". So if I get one now, I'll try to make it so, that google chrome starts automatically on startup via ChromeOS or something else, build a nice LEGO case for it, buy a small screen, one od those ultra small mouses and an elastic keyboard. :3
[QUOTE=NinjaTomate;34182791]I had the EXACT SAME idea, but then I thought "What kinda games are even able do run on this?". So if I get one now, I'll try to make it so, that google chrome starts automatically on startup via ChromeOS or something else, build a nice LEGO case for it, buy a small screen, one od those ultra small mouses and an elastic keyboard. :3[/QUOTE] I was thinking of making my own games for it. Probably put ARM-compiled game emulators on it, too.
[QUOTE=ief014;34182807]I was thinking of making my own games for it. Probably put ARM-compiled game emulators on it, too.[/QUOTE] Sounds really cool. Have you made any games before? :3
[QUOTE=NinjaTomate;34182955]Sounds really cool. Have you made any games before? :3[/QUOTE] Well yeah, I've been developing games since I was 13
Oh cool, could I see any of those?
As a normal game programmer, most games I develop are unfinished and I don't release them. anyway this is kind of off-topic to the thread. I'll just pm you instead of derailing
I made a Raspberry Pi wallpaper for myself, feel free to use it. Res is 1920x1080, not doing anything else [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/dcWco.png[/IMG_thumb]
[QUOTE=cwook;34183966]I made a Raspberry Pi wallpaper for myself, feel free to use it. Res is 1920x1080, not doing anything else [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/dcWco.png[/IMG_thumb][/QUOTE] it hurts my eyes
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