Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

[SystemParanoia]

Had an absolutely fantastic day out with the kids and the birmingham raspberry jam.

I would recomend this to anyone, especially if theres one happening nearby.

Even if you're a blackbelt coding ninja - you can inspire the kids on what fantastic things can be created in just an hr or 2

[ajprice]

After some shopping yesterday for SD cards and a keyboard, I now have the Zero with Raspbian installed connected to the TV. Once the Wifi widget comes in the post, I'll get going with it some more.

[SystemParanoia]

Teather the zero to an old android via usb to get networking up and running in the meantime

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f...

Edited by SystemParanoia on Saturday 5th December 18:48

[ajprice]

Game Controllers. I'll probably get an Xbox 360 pad, does it matter to the RPi if its a normal 360 pad, a 'for Windows' 360 pad, or a 3rd party cheaper one?

[Russ35]

2 Pi's are now in earth orbit awaiting to dock with the ISS, ready the Tim Peake to start running experiments on when he arrives at the ISS on the 15 Dec.

daveake, You're going to have to come up with a very good plan to get higher than these 2.

[eharding]

Russ35 said:

2 Pi's are now in earth orbit awaiting to dock with the ISS

Brilliant stuff. Given the heritage, I think some "Elite"-style wireframe animations of the docking procedure would be in order.

[daveake]

Russ35 said:

2 Pi's are now in earth orbit awaiting to dock with the ISS, ready the Tim Peake to start running experiments on when he arrives at the ISS on the 15 Dec.

daveake, You're going to have to come up with a very good plan to get higher than these 2.

Well, John Lewis sent a pressie to the moon with some party balloons, so how hard can it be?

Dave

[MyVTECGoesBwaaah]

ajprice said:

Game Controllers. I'll probably get an Xbox 360 pad, does it matter to the RPi if its a normal 360 pad, a 'for Windows' 360 pad, or a 3rd party cheaper one?

I have used both a Mad Catz one and the official 360 controller, so I would think either will be OK

[SystemParanoia]

I have been playing around with a concept of true cloud storage

PingFS ... yes a ping based file storage system!
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

''' pingfs is a filesystem where the data is stored only in the Internet itself,
as ICMP Echo packets (pings) travelling from you to remote servers and
back again. '''

Its not fast and it doesnt store huge ammounts of data, but as a concept... mind blown

anyway.. as you were

[Tonsko]

Stuck kodi on one the other day (or OSMC as it's now known) works like a dream. Zero effort. Very impressed.

[arnie12]

Tonsko said:

Stuck kodi on one the other day (or OSMC as it's now known) works like a dream. Zero effort. Very impressed.

Was this on a zero?

[Tonsko]

Apologies, no. Pi2. Imagine zero would struggle tbh, the pi2 isn't amazingly responsive. It's not a pain to use, just not instant, such is our impatience these days

[RizzoTheRat]

If you haven't already, stick the Kore app or similar (there's another mentioned in this thread somewhere but I can't remember it's name) on your phone to control it. Agree it's not that responsive but the playback on a Pi2 is fine so I'd be interested to see if how well a Zero copes.

[SystemParanoia]

I run kodi on my original Model B just fine.

the Zero is faster than the B so will be just fine also. just remember to run raspi-config and divert as much ram as possible to the GPU.

It can take 5-10 secs to start a Youtube stream though. this is where the pi2 is much much faster.

For Local / LAN files It happily streams upto 10gb 1080p copys offilms from my model B+ server without issue, and starts almost immediately.

[MyVTECGoesBwaaah]

RizzoTheRat said:

If you haven't already, stick the Kore app or similar (there's another mentioned in this thread somewhere but I can't remember it's name) on your phone to control it. Agree it's not that responsive but the playback on a Pi2 is fine so I'd be interested to see if how well a Zero copes.

Yatze (Or Yatse, think it is the former)

[Tonsko]

SystemParanoia said:

I run kodi on my original Model B just fine.

the Zero is faster than the B so will be just fine also. just remember to run raspi-config and divert as much ram as possible to the GPU.

It can take 5-10 secs to start a Youtube stream though. this is where the pi2 is much much faster.

For Local / LAN files It happily streams upto 10gb 1080p copys offilms from my model B+ server without issue, and starts almost immediately.

Actually quite impressed by that.

[Tonsko]

I still haven't got a case for mine. Looks super messy. Found some nice pieces of ash lying around, been meaning to have a go at making a nice ash case for it.

With regards playing mdeia over the network, do you just need to set a folder shareable (on windows)? Or is it a bit more involved. Sorry for being lazy.

[Tuna]

This is what we did with a Pi in the office (plus a lot of plastic cups and some LEDs)

https://youtu.be/XKPwc8NM2ks

Internet connected snowman!

[0000]

That's ridiculous. Great effort.

[Tonsko]

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