Raspberry Pi - The Bear and Badger

Blue Swirl

n0face wrote:

Planning to have a solar cell on the finished article...

That's superb. I demand pictures when you have that working.

beano

Loving your work noface.

IanHamlett

Yep. Officially some next level shit.

Blue Swirl

Too busy to water your plants? Get your RPi to do it for you. Source.

Blue Swirl

There's been plenty of RPi laptops, but they've usually required tracking down a Motorola lapdock (which are no longer made) and splicing up some cables.

Here's the Pi-Top, which uses a 3d-printed housing to turn your RPi B+ into a laptop.

Hopefully this works with the B, too!

beano

How is that printed on a five x five inch bed?

darkglobe

Got one of these for my birthday, delighted although not done anything with it yet.

I'd like to make a retro console with it for the living room tv, any tips and advice would be lovely and splendid espicially if it's possible to get it working with a ps3 or 4 pad.

Its the model b one if that helps.

krs

A RetroPie? That's my plan, too. @Scotswahey has his set up for such things.

Blue Swirl

beano wrote:

How is that printed on a five x five inch bed?

Carefully? I assume it's done in two halves and then put together.

Blue Swirl

To clarify, I mean "left and right", along with the "top and bottom" that you'd expect a laptop to consist of.

Blue Swirl

Raspberry Pi Model A+ available now.

Like the Model A, this one still just has 256 MB of RAM and no Ethernet port, but it's now just 65mm in length and manages to consume less power. The new model comes packed with 40 pins on the GPIO, a Micro SD slot, and a new audio output with a low-noise power supply for better quality. Even better, this one's just $20.

beano

Blue Swirl wrote:

To clarify, I mean "left and right", along with the "top and bottom" that you'd expect a laptop to consist of.

Still doesn't make sense, from the scale garnered from the photos. Looks wider on it's longest side than 5. It stinks, to me, will have to get my hands on one.

edit: screen looks bigger, can't remember if the size was mentioned but I don't recall.

Scotswahey

15 quid for the new model A is pretty epic. In other news theres a new version of emulation station and it's looking much more polished than the last one. Not had any time for the Pi let alone this forum in the last couple months but I'm going to hopefully give it a try soon.

PRetty sure I'm getting an electronics kit for the Pi for xmas. Cannot wait.

beano

Got ten RPi compute units today, 10 cameras and some mini TFTs...erm...no idea what specific thing to do with them.

IanHamlett

Do a 3x3 grid to make a reasonably sized screen.

n0face

Treated myself to a new b+, a pi-dac+ and a pi-amp+ for Christmas.

Gets quite a good review.

beano

I printed some stands for the cameras today in work- taking some kit away for xmas- gonna try and get the nephew onto some code.

That looks like a right treat, noface (o:

If anyone sees any 3D printable case designs for the RPi computes please giv us a heads up. Ta.

n0face

Any good resources for getting kids started? I want to give my kids a go at coding but haven't guy a clue how to start them off.

beano

Head to the root...

http://www.raspberrypi.org/resources/

I've no idea how I am going to start. I've got an IR pi cam, really I need a sensor, but instead I'll set it up an alarm (simple script to take 'graphs when there's motion in the image) and at night and leave a saucer of milk and some cat food out to see if we can catch any foxes or whatevs.

beano

Avoid Scratch, FWIW.

Sonic Pi is good fun!

IanHamlett

Fuck. I picked up a scratch book for when my daughter's old enoiugh. It cost less than a coffee so I won't cry too much.

beano

It's just not great- it'll do in some cases but I reckon it's just best to get into something that's not so low level.

Blue Swirl

n0face wrote:

Any good resources for getting kids started?

Another good place to scab some tutorials from would be the Kano project.

Blue Swirl

Now that you've all bought your B+s, here's the RPi 2.

The Raspberry Pi 2 makes two major changes to the previous version, while leaving other components unchanged:

- The CPU (central processing unit) is now quad-core rather than single-core. That means it can be programmed to use more of its cores to offer extra computing power, or made to use fewer to help save power consumption - useful if running as part of a battery-powered contraption. In addition, the Cortex A7 processor now runs at 900MHz rather than 700MHz
- The board now features one gigabyte of RAM (random access) memory, double the amount that was previously included

As before, owners will need to add their own keyboard, a MicroSD card containing a copy of an operating system, and television/monitor-connecting cables in order to start programming. Enclosures bought for the previous Model B+ computers will also fit the new one.

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The Raspberry Pi 2 can run a variety of Linux-based systems out-of-the-box, but its makers have also promised it will be able to support Microsoft's next operating system at a later date.

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"The Raspberry Pi 2-compatible version of Windows 10 will be available free of charge to makers."

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The new kit - most of which is manufactured at Sony's factory in Bridgend, South Wales - costs £22.85 excluding VAT, or $35.

IanHamlett

"The surprise to us is that people don't buy just one Raspberry Pi.

"There are a lot of people with five or six. And we think those people are naturally going to want this.

That's me. Where do I pay?

n0face

I'll take two.

Hodge360

Getting more and more tempted by these. Want XBMC machines for each room, thinking it might be possible to deconstruct an old tablet and use it with one,maybe one for messing about with and then who knows next!

Blue Swirl

Hodge360 wrote:

Getting more and more tempted by these.

I'm already planning my homebrew Windows 10 tablet using the Pi 2.

n0face

Screen and battery options?

Blue Swirl

There's a variety of touch screens out there that work with the Pi. No idea about batteries, though.

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