Raspberry Pi

Nish Nishant

Just wondering if any regulars here have one, and if so which particular model would you recommend today? Thank you.

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Marc Clifton

I have a couple BeagleBone Blacks, but no rPi. Personally, I would go with the latest and greatest, the B+. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/models/README.md[^] Marc

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Nish Nishant

Thanks Marc.

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Lost User

The B+ has been replaced by the Raspberry Pi 2 hasn't it? On the phone so didn't follow your link. I got a couple of Pi 2's yesterday. Not had time to do anything yet. 1GB of RAM and a 900MHz cpu. 4 USB as well.

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Lost User

See my reply to Marc.

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Indivara

I've got one of the original Pi gathering dust somewhere. RS took so long to ship it, my attention had already wandered elsewhere by the time it finally arrived. I did set up XBMC on it for some time, but it was too painfully unresponsive to be really useful. I'd like to get my hands on one of these[^] to try out Windows IoT Core or a Raspberry Pi Zero[^].

Nish Nishant

Thanks.

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Nish Nishant

Saw it, thanks.

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Nish Nishant

Yeah, the naming has been rather confusing. Amazon has the Pi 2 for about 40 bucks. The Pi 2 with Win 10 IOT pack is about $160 though. Not sure if all the extras are worth it though.

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Marco Bertschi

I got an RPi (model B, I guess - the one with the ethernet connection). It used to sit next to the printer, acting as print server for the old USB printer. Now that we got an ethernet printer the pi is merely used as the place where the scanned PDFs go before someone takes them off there to store them in their folder. Today I'd recommend the Pi 2, as SW for it can be developed using VS.

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Jochen Arndt

I don't have one personally but actually developing a kind of hand held based on a Pi. For development I'm using a B+ now (started with a B) while the final device will use an A+ (already present) or zero (not yet present here) depending on the type of display that will be finally used. I prefer one of the small 3.5" touch displays which are connected via SPI. But my boss want's a bigger one so that the official 7" Pi touch display might be used. That is much faster and has multi touch but can't be used with the Zero that doesn't have the display connector. The Pi are used with a self developed extension board providing a LiIon charger, on/off logic, RTC, voltage and current monitor, piezo buzzer, and a 2-port USB hub. As you may have already noted, it depends on the requirements which type to use. I suggest the B+ and B2 for starting and development because they provide Ethernet and multiple USB ports. If size and/or current matters, use the A+ or Zero. Missing interfaces can be provided via USB (hub, WLAN, ethernet). Use the Zero if the additional interfaces of the A+ are not required (camera interface, display interface, audio output). If speed matters, use the B2. But this is usually not necessary when not using X Window based applications. For the hand held I use Qt applications running without X. For testing purposes I'm showing a FFT from sampled SDR data (DVB-T USB stick as receiver, sample rate 240 kHz) on the 7" display. This produces a system load of about 50% on the B+ (the data rate is still higher than the display refresh rate so that only every second FFT frame is shown). Small applications are build on the Pi itself via SSH shell. But I have also a virtual machine running Ubuntu with installed Pi cross compilation tools and Qt Creator. I initially thought that I might have to build my own kernel to support specific hardware. But this can be omitted with actual RaspBian distributions because they support meanwhile device trees and a lot of Pi specific hardware (e.g. these small SPI displays).

Lost User

Got one as a present a few years ago; installed samba, apache and mono. I'd recommend ordering one of those plastic casings if you are going to use the Pi a lot.

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Lost User

Nish Nishant wrote:

Yeah, the naming has been rather confusing. Amazon has the Pi 2 for about 40 bucks. The Pi 2 with Win 10 IOT pack is about $160 though. Not sure if all the extras are worth it though.

Can't you just buy the Pi 2 and the go here[^] to the get the IoT shit for free?

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Max Methot

I have many Pi's at home, since we use them at work. I even have one attached to a TFT touchscreen. I worked with models A, B and 2. If you really want to go with a Raspberry Pi device, go with version 2. It's about the same price, but twice the power and usefulness of older models. Although you must know that there are many other pocket sized computers on the market worth looking at. (a few are on kickstarter) Here are a few examples. The best one so far, in my opinion: PINE[^] (15$) It has 32Bits and 64Bits versions, which other makers don't have. It's cheaper and faster than the Pi 2. Worth a look. LattePanda[^] (45£): If you'd like to experiment with Windows 10 IoT features, this is the one. Sub-10$ computers (less powerful, much smaller in size and price): C.H.I.P[^] (9$) Raspberry Pi Zero[^] (5$) Other stuff to look at maybe? > Arduino > Intel Galileo

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Dan Neely

The one my Mom baked is best. :laugh: Good luck getting a one if you're not family though. :doh:

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pkfox

My pi 2 is on 24/7 running Logitech media server and Squeezlite as the player , I've added a Hifiberry DAC and have an external drive storing the music - the sound quality is stunning it rivals my old Slim devices Transporter which cost about £1000 ten years ago - do yourself a favour and power it and any USB devices via a USB powered hub as they can get a tad unstable if you plug unplug often - in short they are an incredible bit of kit.

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dazfuller

It depends on what you're wanting to do. I've got an original Raspberry Pi Model B which is now a computer for my 5 y/o which does him fine and runs Minecraft perfectly well. So if you want a low powered computer for hacking around with I'd go for the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, but if you're looking at doing some IoT stuff, or controllers for robots etc... I'd have a look at the Pi Zero

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Kiriander

That depends on what you want to do with that. If you want to explore all possibilites of the platform, start with the biggest model, the Pi 2 B. If you want to actually create an embedded device, I would recommend the Pi Zero.

Benito Aramando

To be clear, the long delivery times were because the manufacturers couldn't make them fast enough to keep up with the high demand. I don't know which model you had, but I have a (type 1) model B, and it runs various distributions of XBMC/Kodi (i.e. Xbian, OpenELEC or OSMC) just fine. It is very slow updating the catalogue, though, so I don't have it do that at startup. It was annoyingly slow to respond to user input for a while, but I updated to a new version of Xbian and that sorted it.

WinnipegCodeMonkey

Pi 2, model b. openelec for os. pi 1, model b, made a mini arcade with a 10 inch lcd, joystick and buttons. Running raspian on that one. Great little dev plaform for linux. May get another pi 2 and try the windows 10 build.