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Rasberry Pi, anyone build stuff with it?


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My teenager got one and hooked it up as a little in house server. We also hooked up an external USB hard drive to it. So we can store files via our home network. We tried it emulators for awhile, mostly genesis and SNES and NES. And PS1 too

I think it's like Xbox level of power for emulation. Maybe a little underpowered. Could not get Atari 5200 emulation working for some reason. That's all I am aware of concerning the R.PI.

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Cool. Did you and your daughter work on it together? I'm 34 but I still collaborate with my old man on stuff. I told him about it and he likened it to those old 15-in-1 science experiments you used to be able to get at radio shack, or those old AM crystal radio kits. I'm thinking about picking one up for him for Christmas.

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I currently own 3 RPi model Bs right now. I use all of them as compact XBMC media center units. The one in the living room I also dual boot sometimes to Linux and use it as a web browser. I use a small, cheap, but effective wireless keyboard/pad for the Linux usage and a Windows MCE compatible remote for media center use. All the media is served out centrally from a VM running on VMWare ESXi. That VM is also my MythTV server (gives me centralized DVR access from all clients), which utilize some Silicon Dust HD HomeRun network connected ATSC tuners.

 

Life is just fine after "cutting the cord" or unhooking the dish. Oh yeah, I did put up regular old UHF/VHF/FM antenna on the house too to get awesome crystal clear digital broadcast signals. The digital broadcasts make use of the exact same antenna technology as the old analog signals (becuase the freqency bands are are the same). Don't let anyone tell you that special "digital" antennas are needed. For me, locals plus Netflix is plenty good. It's kind of like the old Bruce Springstine lyrics with cable and satellite... "...57 channels and nothing on." Except now it's more like 357 channels and not much on.

 

There are definately some lessons to be learned by doing this kind of project, and I have learned them (at least the lessons required to make this all work in my configuration). So, feel free to use me as a resource if I can help any of you. I say the paid TV providers can stick it in their greedy... LOL

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I have one running as a headless file server. Just the Pi, and an external USB HD. Linux, SMB and Appletalk file sharing, and two Transmission Bittorrent daemons. The whole thing consumes about 5 watts.

 

The Pi seemed a bit slow as an all-around emulation platform. Some console emus ran well, but others were just couldn't do 100% speed.

 

I've ordered an Odroid C1 (same price, same form factor, but with a 1.5GHz quad core ARM) and think it might make a better emulation station.

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