What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
Dec 25th 2013, 2:51 pm
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What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
Santa got me a poor mans computer, but what are they good for? I could put xbmc on it and celotape it to the TV. Any other suggestions?
Dec 25th 2013, 3:23 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
Mame.
Dec 25th 2013, 4:37 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
I can think of 3.14159265 things to do with it.
Dec 25th 2013, 4:52 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
Mame Cabinet
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Jan 8th 2014, 5:44 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
A good thing to put on the pi is XBMC (google it !). It turns it in to a media centre. From there you can manage all your photos/videos and even watch live TV (including BBC).
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Jan 8th 2014, 6:01 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
A good thing to put on the pi is XBMC (google it !). It turns it in to a media centre. From there you can manage all your photos/videos and even watch live TV (including BBC).
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Jan 9th 2014, 6:45 am
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
Cool. You can make any doodad that currently you do not have. I'm making a pocket router
Jan 9th 2014, 5:53 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
I have run XBMC for a long time, so it made sense to put Raspbmc on an SD Card.
I have OpenVPN setup on another for secure access back to my LAN from public wifi hotspots.
I going to start working on OwnCloud tomorrow so my most important data (US Visa included) is backed up on more than one device. Which also doubles up as a LAMP box, for my private wiki.
Yes I'm an IT geek. So sorry if this is too much info.
If all else fails, as mentioned it's plenty powerful for Mame and some other gaming.
I have OpenVPN setup on another for secure access back to my LAN from public wifi hotspots.
I going to start working on OwnCloud tomorrow so my most important data (US Visa included
) is backed up on more than one device. Which also doubles up as a LAMP box, for my private wiki.Yes I'm an IT geek. So sorry if this is too much info.
If all else fails, as mentioned it's plenty powerful for Mame and some other gaming.
Jan 9th 2014, 6:28 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
I have run XBMC for a long time, so it made sense to put Raspbmc on an SD Card.
I have OpenVPN setup on another for secure access back to my LAN from public wifi hotspots.
I going to start working on OwnCloud tomorrow so my most important data (US Visa included) is backed up on more than one device. Which also doubles up as a LAMP box, for my private wiki.
Yes I'm an IT geek. So sorry if this is too much info.
If all else fails, as mentioned it's plenty powerful for Mame and some other gaming.
I have OpenVPN setup on another for secure access back to my LAN from public wifi hotspots.
I going to start working on OwnCloud tomorrow so my most important data (US Visa included
) is backed up on more than one device. Which also doubles up as a LAMP box, for my private wiki.Yes I'm an IT geek. So sorry if this is too much info.
If all else fails, as mentioned it's plenty powerful for Mame and some other gaming.
Jan 9th 2014, 6:31 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
Sorry I cannot, I forget now what mine is. Though I did buy mine from a Pi retailer. This is probably your best bet.
Jan 10th 2014, 4:27 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
I might be looking at a Model B to use XBMC. Should i get a regular Ubuntu distribution or go with XBMCbuntu. What do you use for media storage with the Pi? I would like to have a huge movie collection stored on a HDD ideally (either connected or on a server over wifi). The only other thing i would likely like to use it for is MAME, but then i see the RetroPlayer feature in XBMC is going to support MAME ROMs and others.
Some other questions
Is it possible to use a game controller?
Does XBMC have some kind of remote control or does it need the Pi keyboard and mouse attached all the time?
Some other questions
Is it possible to use a game controller?
Does XBMC have some kind of remote control or does it need the Pi keyboard and mouse attached all the time?
Jan 10th 2014, 4:32 pm
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Re: What shall I do with a Raspberry Pi?
I just read this thread and feel like I stepped into a parallel universe.