Does anyone else have a raspberry pi?

I broke down and finally ordered one a few days ago with a few other cards, this came in the mail today!

I know what I'll be doing this weekend assuming I have an extra SD card to play with while I wait for my other goodies.

 

I don't really have a use for something like that.

 

So let me get this straight. Somebody brought back the 286 computer and everyone is buying it? I'm in the wrong business.

 

Maybe Pong will make a comeback too

 

Interesting

 

I'd be interested in it just for Netflix. I'm in Australia, so I have to move my desktop next to the TV, hook it all up and then tunnel my traffic just to get onto Netflix. Considering gettnig a Pi.

 

I don't think the x86 series had HDMI out



A buddy and I messed around with it last night and was able to setup one of the OS's & browse the internet, I don't remember which one it was because we're drinking..lol

I tried minepeon after that to see if I could get it to mine a bitcoin with one of my asics, I hav 3 of them now and want to get 2 more. (yes, if you know anything about bitcoins... I do know I'll likely never see my ROI at this point with this hardware but it's fun and that's why I do it)



I'm going to try it again right now and we'll see what happens.
I have a few other things ordered which should be on their way.

• a mini wifi dongle
• a small LCD screen and keypad
• and a riser card for the LCD card

I need to order or find a 5-7 port hub to complete that project.

I'd also like to buy an old NES controller and setup an emulator to run on my big TV in the living room. I already have a Roku so Netflix doesn't really interest me right now.

I'd like to setup a web server and well as try a media server.
Also at some point I'd like to get an Arduino, there are a lot of cool things you can do with it alone as well as in conjunction with the RPi.

 

That's pretty neat @BamaStangGuy
I edited your post a bit to include the video it in, the link has some good stuff too

 

I considered buying either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino Uno. Which one is better, feature-wise?

 

A 286 computer the size of a credit card that can play HD video. Who wouldn't want such a device?! And for just about $45.

I have a project where I'm sure I'll be using a few PIs myself.

 

The model B one which is what I got was $35, the model A one (the older version) is $25.
I clicked the Buy a Pi link here
http://www.raspberrypi.org/


*Edit*
Actually it looks like there are a few places, this is where I got mine.

http://www.alliedelec.com/lp/120626raso/
Features:

• Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
• GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
• GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
• 512 MB RAM
• Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux
• 10/100 BaseT Ethernet ports
• HDMI socket
• (2) USB 2.0 socket
• RCA video socket
• SD card socket
• Powered from microUSB socket
• 3.5 mm audio out jack
• Header footprint for camera connection
• Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17 mm

 

I'm running IpFire as a transparent proxy with the raspberry pi. Awesome thing!

But just check if you have hynix or samsung-ram (the big black chip in the middle) the one with hynix does not work at all.

 

2x raspberry pi
2x cubie board
several (~30) arduino boards

and houndrets of other unnecessary accessories like servos,boards,etc...,
unnecessary because i've never found the time to do something really useful with this sh*t (i wanted to automate everything in the house with this )

 

Wow, I really like what the Raspberry Pi can do now, I might consider buying it really soon! Is the setup process as hard as it seems?

 

I've only messed with a few OS's and it's been easy so far.
If you can format a SD card and drag files over to it, you can setup a OS on a RPi.