The Raspberry Pi Thread

[OneMoar]

I.mx Chips are garbage ..avoid

 

[xvi]

Are the big.LITTLE chips even worth having for something with a constant power source? If it can use all eight cores at once, then I could maybe understand, but..

oh ... wait Hummingboard ... not Hummingbird

Specs:

• Dual-wing @ 50 flaps per second (overclockable to 200 FPS)
• Special shiny coating
• Distinctive humming sound as it flies around
• Runs on a variety of nectars

 

[OneMoar]

Are the big.LITTLE chips even worth having for something with a constant power source? If it can use all eight cores at once, then I could maybe understand, but..


Specs:

• Dual-wing @ 50 flaps per second (overclockable to 200 FPS)
• Special shiny coating
• Distinctive humming sound as it flies around
• Runs on a variety of nectars

*feeder and small finely woven nest not included

 

[GreiverBlade]

Are the big.LITTLE chips even worth having for something with a constant power source? If it can use all eight cores at once, then I could maybe understand, but..


Specs:

• Dual-wing @ 50 flaps per second (overclockable to 200 FPS)
• Special shiny coating
• Distinctive humming sound as it flies around
• Runs on a variety of nectars

*feeder and small finely woven nest not included

thanks you both ... you made my day ... aherm night i mean ... xD

also for big.LITTLE yep indeed it is also my concern tho even with a constant power source it lower the consumption and it can be usefull for a 24/24 media server or also as a HTPC (seriously tied between that A80, a Radxa Rock Pro or building a AM1 HTPC ... )

 

[Peter1986C]

Currently exploring the idea of putting a flavour of Gentoo on my Rpi, although it will take quite some time until it has become a distro in its own right. If I have working disk images to share I will post them in the *nix section of the TPU forums.

 

[t_ski]

I have one, along with most (if not, all) of the parts needed for this:

https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi

Just need to put it in a box and wire it all up.

Here's some other emulator stuff:

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192

 

[ste2425]

I have one, along with most (if not, all) of the parts needed for this:

https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi

Just need to put it in a box and wire it all up.

Here's some other emulator stuff:

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192

That's looks brilliant. I've seen people buy old full height arcade cabinets and retrofit them with rpi's

 

[t_ski]

That's looks brilliant. I've seen people buy old full height arcade cabinets and retrofit them with rpi's

I've wanted a MAME cabinet for a long time, but I'm married, and I think that would be hard to justify my "needs" to my wife. I figure a small box with controls on it would be easy for me to move in and out when I wanted to use it.

 

[OneMoar]

I been thinking about getting the C1 or XTU3-l and building a tablet

 

[xvi]

I've wanted a MAME cabinet for a long time, but I'm married, and I think that would be hard to justify my "needs" to my wife. I figure a small box with controls on it would be easy for me to move in and out when I wanted to use it.

Make a tiny one?

 

[t_ski]

Make a tiny one?

I saw the CupCade originally, which led me to find out about the others. The price was to much to interest me, and my eyes would hate me even more for staring at another small screen.

https://learn.adafruit.com/cupcade-raspberry-pi-micro-mini-arcade-game-cabinet/overview

 

[Peter1986C]

Raspberry Pi 2 unveiled with faster processor and more memory
By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor

A new budget-priced Raspberry Pi computer has been unveiled, offering child coders and others a faster processor and more memory than before, but at about the same price.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is roughly six times more powerful than the prior version, the Model B+, according to the British charity behind it.

Previous versions of the kit have been widely adopted by schools and enthusiasts across the world.

But the Pi faces increased competition.

Another UK-based firm, Imagination, recently released a bare-bones computer of its own, and the Arduino, Intel Galileo, Gizmo 2, BeagleBone Black and Hummingboard also form part of a growing list of rivals.

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Full article at: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31088908

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[ste2425]

Raspberry Pi 2 unveiled with faster processor and more memory
By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor

A new budget-priced Raspberry Pi computer has been unveiled, offering child coders and others a faster processor and more memory than before, but at about the same price.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is roughly six times more powerful than the prior version, the Model B+, according to the British charity behind it.

Previous versions of the kit have been widely adopted by schools and enthusiasts across the world.

But the Pi faces increased competition.

Another UK-based firm, Imagination, recently released a bare-bones computer of its own, and the Arduino, Intel Galileo, Gizmo 2, BeagleBone Black and Hummingboard also form part of a growing list of rivals.

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Full article at: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31088908

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Well aint that irritating, only got my b+ couple of weeks ago...

 

[Peter1986C]

Your NES project is going well with it, I assume; and support for it will continue because Raspbian is basically a rolling release distro. The command chain "sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" should get you going; albeit logging out first, then exiting the DE with ctrl+alt+F1 and switching to runlevel 3 (as root or super user) before doing the upgrade may be necessary.

 

[ste2425]

Your NES project is going well with it, I assume; and support for it will continue because Raspbian is basically a rolling release distro. The command chain "sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" should get you going; albeit logging out first, then exiting the DE with ctrl+alt+F1 and switching to runlevel 3 (as root or super user) before doing the upgrade may be necessary.

Aye my NES project is going grand, and the B+ would be more than enough for that project. Just irritating that if id have waited a little longer i would have much more umph to play with. Ill remember that for the upgrade ta.

You've just reminded me, i need to update my other thread asking for help about the controllers

 

[MilkyWay]

So what do people think of Windows 10 coming to RPI2? I like it and i hate it at the same time, to me its good that developers have choice and that .net users will be able to develop on a pi but at the same time i fucking hate how Microsoft are trying to tie people into their ecosystem and that you use their tools. If i'm going to use a Pi as a controller for a project i'm NOT going to use Windows, if i'm using it as a media player i don't really care about Windows either.

The only people who might benefit from this are .net developers and people who don't give a crap about linux and thats a bit sad.

 

[xvi]

It's just going to be the ARM version. Even if it could emulate x86, it wouldn't have the horsepower to do anything about it.

 

[Nordic]

So what do people think of Windows 10 coming to RPI2? I like it and i hate it at the same time, to me its good that developers have choice and that .net users will be able to develop on a pi but at the same time i fucking hate how Microsoft are trying to tie people into their ecosystem and that you use their tools. If i'm going to use a Pi as a controller for a project i'm NOT going to use Windows, if i'm using it as a media player i don't really care about Windows either.

The only people who might benefit from this are .net developers and people who don't give a crap about linux and thats a bit sad.

Think about all the people who wouldn't of bothered with a Rasberry Pie because it didn't have windows available.

 

[GhostRyder]

Cannot wait for the new PI 2, I am going to be waiting in line for one of those bad boys as they make such great little test bed computers. Cannot believe Windows 10 support though!

 

[MilkyWay]

Think about all the people who wouldn't of bothered with a Raspberry Pi because it didn't have windows available.

Thats exactly what i was thinking, people who didn't care about the pi might be interested now and that is a good thing. That's why i said i like the idea of windows coming to pi but at the same time there are things i don't like about it. Windows 10 for ARM is free for non commercial use otherwise you have to buy a license, feel free to correct me as im not totally sure i understood about what i read.

I think the current userbase will not bother about Windows unless they need to use .net for some reason. I mean i have a PC so if i really wanted to do development with .net i have a better platform for .net specifically. Theres better suited tools and programming languages for the pi and its niche uses.

 

[OneMoar]

meh it needs more then 1GB of ram
clock speed is low but that can be resolved with some quick overclocking
not a fan of the videocore 4 outside of media playback its fking useless

 

[Caring1]

I'm thinking that's one big lighter .....

 

[GreiverBlade]

Well aint that irritating, only got my b+ couple of weeks ago...

well still kinda outdated, where "nearly" all the concurrent use A9 core the RPi 2 will use a A7 but it's totally much better than a ARM11 core and it's a quadcore getting better (slowly but better) my fav' etailer list it in stock at 43.50chf over the 42.50chf price of the Rpi 1 B+ it's quite good ... i might even change my BBB to that Rpi2 since a quad A7 is not so bad over a single A9

also not mentioning a A7 core can keep up but you need 1. the frequencie 2. the number of core ... for a non related example : the Mediatek MTK6592T (the 2.0ghz version of the MTK6592) sport 8xA7 and a MALI450 MP4 gpu is nearly on par with a Snapdragon 800 which use 4 Krait 400 (a enhanced A15 revision if i can say so) @2.25ghz and a Adreno 330 (you find the MTK6592T in the UMI Zero for reference)

ofc in the case of RPi BBB cubie humming & co it's irrelevant

let say a cluster of RPi2 would be awesome xD

 

[Aquinus]

Well aint that irritating, only got my b+ couple of weeks ago...

I ordered my B only a week or so after it was first released. I guess I'm in the opposite boat where I've been getting irritated by the 256MB. As a micro-controller, it's plenty. However if i wanted to run Clojure code (my current language of choice, which is JVM based) I need a bit more because the JVM is a bit heavy on resources where 1GB makes it a lot more realistic to use for any real project that I might run on a real computer.

let say a cluster of RPi2 would be awesome xD

That is exactly what I was thinking. A low power x86 machine, maybe an AM1, to essentially be a master and maybe a handful (4?) of RPi2s connected over ethernet. It's a little bit of an investment though. I think I could convince myself to do it after I overhaul the network in my house so I can get my gateway server out of my living room. The cost is super palatable though if you want to dabble with a real mini-cluster without pretending that you are with VMs instead; more real hardware, less cloud-like.

At first I think I'll buy one and get a feel for what it can do before I decide to start that kind of project, although it could be a lot of fun.

 

[Peter1986C]

well still kinda outdated, where "nearly" all the concurrent use A9 core the RPi 2 will use a A7 but it's totally much better than a ARM11 core and it's a quadcore getting better (slowly but better) my fav' etailer list it in stock at 43.50chf over the 42.50chf price of the Rpi 1 B+ it's quite good ... i might even change my BBB to that Rpi2 since a quad A7 is not so bad over a single A9

also not mentioning a A7 core can keep up but you need 1. the frequencie 2. the number of core ... for a non related example : the Mediatek MTK6592T (the 2.0ghz version of the MTK6592) sport 8xA7 and a MALI450 MP4 gpu is nearly on par with a Snapdragon 800 which use 4 Krait 400 (a enhanced A15 revision if i can say so) @2.25ghz and a Adreno 330 (you find the MTK6592T in the UMI Zero for reference)

ofc in the case of RPi BBB cubie humming & co it's irrelevant

let say a cluster of RPi2 would be awesome xD

The Cortex A9 is a model of the ARMv7 generation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore
The 9 in the core family name is just to denote performance within the family (like i7 vs. i5 for the Haswell family). The "v7" is to denote the generation of the (micro)architecture (like Netburst vs. P6).

 

[GreiverBlade]

The Cortex A9 is a model of the ARMv7 generation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore
The 9 in the core family name is just to denote performance within the family (like i7 vs. i5 for the Haswell family). The "v7" is to denote the generation of the (micro)architecture (like Netburst vs. P6).

as if i didn't know that btw we are now on A15 since the A9 as been replaced majorly by the A15 (not in singleboard mini computer or TV stick tho) and also the A5X (ARMv8 gen) is already here yet a A5-A7 are less desirable than a A9-A15 and doesn't cost less as a i3 is to a i5/i7 (and a A7 is more the "pentium" of the ARM line ) also you need 8 A7 to keep up with 4 A15 so indeed it's a Pentium versus a i7 (not really but who care)

i meant outdated, in term of computational power but again it's a Rpi so it doesn't really matter

ofc the quad A7 in the RPi2 is totally awesome (for the price demanded )

 

[Peter1986C]

In other news, here is a "review" of the Pi 2, with an important statement:

also support Windows 10. However, Upton has explained that this won’t be a full Windows 10 environment running desktop applications: rather, it will be a command-line environment, aimed at developers designing IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

Full review

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