Raspberry Pi

[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:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

[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.

[JoeSox]

Nish Nishant wrote:

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

I bought my 13 year old son at the time a B but not sure what the latest and greatest is but I would buy the latest version whatever it is. Here is a project I started with my son raspiAI[^] https://github.com/joesox/raspiAI/blob/master/raspiAI/Notes.txt[^] Let us know if you eventually post some code. I threw in the towel on this project as the facial recognition part was getting a little fustrating for the Rasp PI but Microsoft has released their facial cloud API so I want to check that out next with raspiAI :cool:

Later, JoeSox CPMCv1.0 - Last.fm - MyFriendfeed - CPForAndroid++

[computer_nerd]

I bought a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B plus a case and power supply earlier this year. I have the OpenElec operating system installed on it and it's running KODI media player. It's plugged into my router and into the HDMI port on my TV. I haven't tweaked it yet beyond being able to play videos stored on my NAS. At some point I'll install some KODI plugins and use it to play online media. For anyone that likes the idea of a smart TV but is bothered about the privacy implications or doesn't like the software provided on the TV, it's an ideal solution over which you have total control. The Raspberry Pi is small enough that you could hide it behind your wall-mounted TV. You could power it via USB if your TV has a spare port and you could plug in a usb WIFI dongle if you don't have network connectivity nearby. You can do most operations using your TV remote without having to set anything up, though some people like to buy a wireless keyboard for more control.

[Spencer Kittleson]

Love my raspberry pi. Not great for YouTube videos but awesome for DIY projects.

[Derek Hunter]

I have several Pi 2's at work. One of the them has two large USB drives to serve up our source code via Samba and NFS. Another one runs the Foswiki Wiki on top of Apache2. Yet another acts as a stand-alone mobile hotspot with nginx. A fourth one is configured as a karaoke machine (pykaraoke) with an add-on hi-fidelity audio board for top quality sound. You can do just about anything you want with them and for 40 GBP I don't think you can go wrong with a Pi 2. Derek.

[Tiger12506]

I have several Raspberry Pi model B's that I use as media servers for their h264 full 1080p hardware abilities. I'd go with the Pi 2 (I have one of those), as it supercedes everything else, unless you specifically want something without an ethernet port, etc. The extra cores make it difficult for any one process to lock up the Pi, which can happen with the previous versions. Also, the extra RAM is a blessing. Because I don't use X on mine and just use omxplayer and ssh into it for everything, all of them are quite snappy. One thing that I just am not satisfied with is getting enough power to the USB ports. On all of them I've used, a single device can suck up all the current available and more... So expect glitches from wireless cards, external harddrives... unless you have an actual *GOOD* quality powered USB hub. Without a powered hub, forget trying to connect a non-powered HDD for example. That's not to scare you away from the Pis -- the 1080p video pays for itself over and over and over and over, just be aware of the problem.

[StanThomas]

Yep. We sell an industrial controller based around the Pi. It's a port of an existing Win32 C++14 application. Used to need a full Win7 system in a rack but now fits in a cigarette packet size box that can be tucked in a corner. No user interface and only dependencies are on Ethernet and USB so pretty much the same code across platforms. Ported to Linux desktop first and then simply a case of recompiling for ARM on the Pi. Running Raspbian Jessie and GCC 4.9.2. Pi 2 Model B is the latest and best specc'ed. Only reason to go with something lesser, like the Zero, would be the lower cost when you're shipping thousands or power consumption running off a battery.

[Ralph Little]

Got a Pi B+, installed OpenElec and using it as a media server. Handles HD over the network to HDMI TV without a single glitch so far. Very nice indeed. Being in Canada, I actually got a kit from www.buyapi.ca including a Pi, box, Flirc, flash drive, psu and some cables. Nice way to get set up. As others have said, depends on what you want it for. Pi Zero takes some beating for embedded systems, although it does not have a network port so you should bear that in mind. As a general purpose mess-about-with box, get the latest Pi B+.

[crazedDotNetDev]

I've got two Pi 2s on my network. The first runs a DNS server. The second is collecting dust at the moment. I plan to make a docker cluster out of Pies, just not gotten that far yet. I really wish their memory could be upgraded. 1GB RAM is enough to be tempting, but not enough to go crazy with.

- great coders make code look easy - When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?

[JRickey]

An IOT pack (such as this one[^]) includes additional hardware: case, power supply, breadboard, jumpers, sensors, LEDs, etc.

[JRickey]

An IOT pack (such as this one[^]) includes additional hardware: case, power supply, breadboard, jumpers, sensors, LEDs, etc.

[Member 10731944]

I've got a B+ and a couple of A boards - they were for projects that have yet to get off the ground. I also have a couple of Orange Pi boards coming in the mail from an Ebay supplier (normally, you can only get them from AliExpress). I'm also a backer for two boards of the Pine A64 kickstarter (which is fully funded, but still going - get in on it while you can). What do I plan to do with any or all of these? Not much anytime soon. One was earmarked for a robotics project; I might use either a A64 board or one of the Orange Pi boards for an emulator station. Beyond that - they're just extra hardware I keep around for "just in case" projects (much like the numerous Mini ITX boards and other assorted crap I also have collecting dust in my shop). ;P