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mikerr

What if you don't think to update your firmware? :shock: How many non-geeks could just stick xmbc on it, not realize its only accessing 256MB & feel no need to update anything? The distributors should really have the firmware to access 512MB right from the factory. The RasPi "firmware" is just a fi...

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after they had got model a's out... however the model a's having 256MB still makes then a good choice ..... for some things It also creates more of a two tier model lineup: Model A - 256MB + 1 USB Model B - 512MB + ethernet + 2x USB Yes 512MB is very good news, but still feel that without Graphics ...

mikerr

- But with the Raspberry Pi we are back to where we were with the eight bit machines - every single part of every Raspberry Pi in the world is identical (or was, until the Rev 2 came along) - so at the moment, anyone who wants to can (and will, for performance reasons) get rid of Linux and go strai...

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filter on the front of the laser to give a matrix of points ?
still not sure how you do it with a single camera / shot ?

Oh, hang on - is the idea to move the whole unit (UAV) left/right and take another shot and compare the two ?

mikerr

use opendns:

www.opendns.org

mikerr

yep, its been spotted:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 63&t=19682

mikerr

Imagine you had nothing spare lying around. Zilch. How much would it cost to get an RPi up and running? I'm thinking you need an RPi (£30 in UK) a PSU, a keyboard, a screen and a cable to connect the screen to the RPi. I've left a mouse out as its not essential but I don't mind if we include it :) ...

mikerr

He's referring to teenagers forever texting (SMS) on phones.

Despite the name textr the textrbeagle is just a very cheap cut down kindle, not a mobile phone texting device.

mikerr

First of all you should deal with RS for your missing 7 components. Secondly, if you've ordered something based on it being "flagged all around the media" without actually looking at what you've ordered ... well that's no one's fault but your own, is it ? Rev1/Rev 2 makes hardly any difference in pr...

mikerr

You really need to do that from within the XBMC code tree if you want a nice interface:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3dgZbZ-9MY

mikerr

You can partially do the same with an iso file by changing the mplayer line, adding -dvd-device /path//to/file.iso sudo mkdir /dvd mkfifo /dvd/dvdpipe mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /home/files/dvd/titanic.iso -dumpstream -dumpfile /dvd/dvdpipe 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null & ...and if you're not ...

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pluggy wrote:Before launch there was excitement about them expecting to sell 20,000.

To be fair it's the unexpected (by foundation) XBMC usage that has driven a large amount of initial sales, not the "educational hacking" use case.

mikerr

Just had a look at your website, and its great to see a full bill of materials including direct links to buy them.

Many of those are ebay links though, which do timeout over about 3 months, so that might be a problem soon.

mikerr

toys.ie is smyths in england, same TV is here:
http://www.smythstoys.com/televisions-7 ... 96itm.aspx

ebuyer do a cheapish DVI monitor @ £69 :
http://www.ebuyer.com/281264-aoc-e950sw ... r-e950swda

Surprising they still sell VGA-only monitors...

mikerr

from that hobbytronics IR sensor page: the sensor detects objects between 2 cm and 10.25 cm away. Note: These sensors will only tell you if there is an object within the detection range along their lines of sight; they will not tell you how far away the object is. but another sensor says varying vol...

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actually make that 93p - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Ultrasonic-Module-HC-SR04-Distance-Measuring-Transducer-Sensor-for-Arduino-/261106903573?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccb2f2a15 Heh - those ultrasonics are unbelieveably cheap for what they give you. Note they are fast/accurate enough to use...

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About 10x

mikerr

"45GHz of performance" ? That's probably just adding up clock speeds of all the processors, I'd be more interested if they quoted GFLOPs or (Drystone) MIPS E.g. ARM (Pi) : 965 MIPS 1.2 GLOP (24 GFLOP GPU) Intel Atom : 4000 MIPS 2 GFLOP Intel i7 : 128,000 MIPS 100 GFLOP (Graphics card GPUs can genera...

mikerr

Also see my post here if you intend to print from windows (samba):

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 36&t=17662

mikerr

Hehe, Amiga - it died before the community was ready to let it go

Fully paid up member here since '88 - even have some of my early programming efforts on aminet

...and I wrote this post on the ethernet connected A4000 just for kicks

mikerr

I'm actually using an IDE DVDRW, but it's the USB chipset driver that makes the difference, not the IDE/SATA drive on te other end. Here's the one I'm using: http://image.ebuyer.com/UK/P0130517_C0000035_P0000000.jpg ( Also take a look at my two threads here on how to use DVDs on Pi: Playing DVD on P...

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They are now posting various other "forthcoming" cases on their facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/cpc.co.uk Case with 100mm VESA mount: http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/c34.0.403.403/p403x403/303721_416376741759796_394916006_n.jpg And some others: http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...

mikerr

2 Pi are called ... a Revolution !

(think radians)

mikerr

A reason for not using a PI ? Don't get if you want ultra fast network performance for example. The Pi only has 100Mbps ethernet, and usually can't max that out for file sharing ( 8megabyte/sec tops), any cheap x86 based system (e.g. atom) would be able to go to gigabit speeds (100megabyte/sec if yo...

mikerr

That's your problem - divx3 isn't "proper" MPEG4

More recent divx4 is compliant MPEG4 (which is accelerated)

You could get mplayer to play it (slowly)

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