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Raspberry Pi
UOMaddog:
So I took some pics of my new Raspberry Pi and thought I'd do a quick write up. I'll be adding more once the rest of my parts come in for the HTPC!
Album: http://imgur.com/a/OSVHK
So let's do a quick run down of specs and inputs/outputs...
Specs:
- 700MHz ARM 11 processor
- 256MB RAM
I/O: (Board Diagram)
- 1 x SD (full size) card slot (operating system is loaded on here...mainly Debian linux distros, Class 4 or higher is recommended)
- 2 x USB 2.0 ports (cannot handle devices that draw power, use an external powered hub for that! I believe the max power is 500mA)
- 1 x 10/100 Ethernet jack
- 1 x HDMI (supports full 1080P HD video) w/ digital audio over HDMI (H.264 @ 40MBits/s, OpenGL ES2.0 & OpenVG)
- 1 x Composite video output
- 1 x 3.5mm (1/8") stereo audio output
- 1 x Micro-USB input (this is the power source)
- 26-pin GPIO (supports PCM, I2C, all kinds of other stuff)
If you have more questions about the specs or general info: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
What makes this different from other boards like Arduinos and MAKE controllers?
- Whereas other boards are "hobby boards", the RPi can actually run an operating system (Linux, primarily Debian distros)
What makes it so awesome?
- It's only $35 (plus another $10-ish for the case) and can power a full-featured Home Theater PC (HTPC)!
What do I plan to do with it?
- Build an awesome HTPC so my wife can finally play all her BluRay Downton Abbey episodes (yea..sadly it's the truth). How do I plan to do it? Stay tuned and I'll shown you once my other parts arrive!!!
For now, enjoy the pics! Sorry they're not the greatest quality because I just snapped them with my Galaxy SII camera. I put a standard Sharpie in a few of the pictures so you can grasp the scale of it! Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them after my next post!
TrailMyx:
BTW, where did you purchase yours? I found them at Newark, but they seem to be in permanent non-stock.
Ultima:
Very nice!
Give us a brief run down of how it works once the rest of the parts arrive!
Dumb it down for me this time. ;)
I was thinking about checking out Downtown Abby myself! I heard it's good! DA has gotten some great reviews on Netflix.
Masscre:
WOW I am glad you posted this. I never have heard of this and just purchased a prefab HTS and will take it back now with hopes that I can play with this for around 150 dollars less :) Thank you for this listing.
Endless Night:
TM they say out of stock but just go ahead and order it, as soon as they get it it gets shipped ... basically they are permanent out of stock... .. my order took about 3 weeks to get filled.
Maddog where did you get that case... musch nicer than mine.
I guess i should have started a new thread on this myself instead of posting here... http://www.scriptuo.com/index.php?topic=10015.msg86015#msg86015
But to summerize what i wrote in that thread...
Buy the $4/$2 MPEG-2/VC-1 licenses to activate the hardware MPEG-2/VC-1 decode/encode from http://www.raspberrypi.com/
You can power it off the USB port of your tv.. with the added bonus of it turning on and off when you turn on off tv, if you use the last of the 3 options below you should be able to control it via your tv remote.
3 diff HTPC builds worth checking out...
http://www.raspbmc.com/
http://xbian.org/?page_id=17 <-- includes apple Airplay support for those apple fanatics
http://openelec.tv/home/menu/what-is-openelec
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