Anyone else think this plus [URL="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411"]this[/URL] will make for a great control system for models, or even robots and RC stuff?
[QUOTE=Mr.T;34110262]Well, since these computers are so cheap you can basically buy 10 of them and link them together. Put it in your backpack along with a battery
and you're good to go.[/QUOTE]
How exactly would you parallelize their computation power?
They're only doing one per address, distrobuted computing is a no no unless you have lots of friends, even then a x86 quad core would out do it for less money.
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[QUOTE=Within;34112848]How exactly would you parallelize their computation power?[/QUOTE]
connect them via GPIO or LAN
Sounds decent, gonna do soemthing with this and HL
If you're talking about Half Life and not some weird acronym only electronics geeks know about i will love you forever
So since it has an ARM CPU it is possible to have android on it, right?
[QUOTE=Getro;34113115]So since it has an ARM CPU it is possible to have android on it, right?[/QUOTE]
Maybe 2.x, not Ice cream sandwich.. ram limitations
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34112882]They're only doing one per address,
[/QUOTE]
What exactly do you mean by this?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34113198]What exactly do you mean by this?[/QUOTE]
One Raspberry Pi per address, 1 per person.
I'm probably gonna buy this and mess around with it abit, looks promising.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34113146]Maybe 2.x, not Ice cream sandwich.. ram limitations[/QUOTE]
Swap partition on a hella fast USB stick.
besides [URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19648827"]Someone's already ported ICS[/URL] to the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream"]HTC G1[/URL]
And that phone only has 192MB ram (less that the Raspberry pi B model) and a MUCH weaker cpu.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34112361]Fuck, it's 35 bucks for an ethernet capable version, and it runs off USB power?
I'm sold. Putting the money away right now, they better find some cheap shipping method.
It'd be nice if they made a version with more RAM, or added an expansion slot, or something, though.[/QUOTE]
The RAM is built onto the CPU, to save space, I wouldn't want a giant RAM stick on my board.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34113240]One Raspberry Pi per address, 1 per person.[/QUOTE]
Uh, you're talking shit, the website and devs encourage people to buy multiple units
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34113333]Uh, you're talking shit, the website and devs encourage people to buy multiple units[/QUOTE]
Link? I've seen them say one per household alot of times.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34113333]Uh, you're talking shit, the website and devs encourage people to buy multiple units[/QUOTE]
In the beginning it's only one per person.
Later on they'll probably sell them by a crate if you'd like that.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34113380]In the beginning it's only one per person.
Later on they'll probably sell them by a crate if you'd like that.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure putting a lot of them them in a crate would incite them to form a hivemind and destroy or enslave us
Can it run android?
Can it run HL1
Or steam?
THAT IS THE QUESTION!
I [I]so[/I] want one of these. Some folks at the Maemo forums are even thinking of [url=http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81100&page=4]modding one into a smartphone[/url] (a _Very_ smart one)...
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;34114093]Can it run HL1
Or steam?
THAT IS THE QUESTION![/QUOTE]
No you're dumb. HL isnt compatible with Linux, nor is it compiled for ARM.
[QUOTE=Painties Hose;34113915]Can it run android?[/QUOTE]
Yes if someone builds it for this device as they should easily be able to get a hold of the drivers.
Also I'd like to see if Windows CE works on this.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;34114093]Can it run HL1
Or steam?
THAT IS THE QUESTION![/QUOTE]
It could maybe run Vapor but that's it
I think this device is not really build to play games
More interested into making it run custom apps and learning to program
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;34110598]Might get one of these, and make myself a wrist computer.[/QUOTE]
Time to make a pip-boy
I'm really excited for this, just because of it's size incredibly low price. Would be really fun to buy a couple of these and tinker with them.
It's a really low power ARM device though, they don't scale as well as a x64 CPU. You'd be better off buying a £100 desktop processor than 10 of these as a render farm.
[QUOTE=BAZ;34114565]I'm really excited for this, just because of it's size incredibly low price. Would be really fun to buy a couple of these and tinker with them.
It's a really low power ARM device though, they don't scale as well as a x64 CPU. You'd be better off buying a £100 desktop processor than 10 of these as a render farm.[/QUOTE]
Why would you use CPU to render, GPU farms are the best.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34114595]Why would you use CPU to render, GPU farms are the best.[/QUOTE]
People seem to have the idea they can wire these all together and have a high powered server farm at their fingertips, but that's not quite the case.
The things have insanely good GPU's for a SoC. Its possible, they can play 1080p.\
How am I late I was suggesting these could be used for low power GPU farms.
There already is a discussion thread in the H&SW section
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[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34114595]Why would you use CPU to render, GPU farms are the best.[/QUOTE]
Because GPUs are not in the standard X86 archetecture and is not flexible at all. You need to rewrite your code completely from scratch. Not to mention that GPUs are only fast in float operations, CPUs can easily beat GPUs in whole calculations.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;34114093]Can it run HL1
Or steam?
THAT IS THE QUESTION![/QUOTE]
Unless someone ports them to ARM, then no.
25$?
You got to be kidding me, I'm getting atleast few of those.
But how the hell are they able to produce these for so low price?
I mean either they're making absolutely 0 profit or the producing costs are like 1$ or so.
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