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Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by nbody »

Derbasti wrote: post #5
melling wrote: post #4

What's the plan for future devices? It would be great if some low cost device like this would have a 12-18 month upgrade cycle and create the sort of buzz as an Apple or Samsung device. Moore's law has benefits at $30 too. Maybe release a $99 version every year then make last year's model available at $35. Get Intel involved? They're really working hard to get into low-power devices.

Yes! I am waiting desperately for a Raspberry Pi with an updated CPU!

Me too, meanwhile I ordered a Beaglebone Black to test out, which has a bit better specs for heavy-CPU jobs. http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone Black

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by mrbill »

johnchristopher wrote: post #31
Theodores wrote: post #20

One of those two million is sat under my desk, collecting dust. I know a few others that are, and, I wonder what percentage of that 2 million are in the same situation? Because you need a few bits and bobs to get your pi working there is a major disincentive to complete and finish whatever that hobby project was to be. Hence the situation with my pi - the wait for bits and bobs, a small bout of illness and the initia…

> What I would like to see is a raspberry pi that works like a 'hardware virtualbox', networking over USB, power over the same lead so you just plug it into your PC/Mac and you have something right there, ready for whatever web/hardware development needed. But it is. My Pi's are running headless and I access them over Ethernet. They suck less power than a VM running on a more powerful hardware and that's the point. e…

The Beaglebone / BB Black does exactly this - you can have it connected with a single USB cable.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by whyenot »

possibilistic wrote: post #76
whyenot wrote: post #51

I am using two of those two million RPis with camera modules to record pollinators visiting flowers (backpackable; activated by motion; solar powered). I'm still ironing out some kinks with the software, but the quality of footage produce by the camera module, the low power requirements and the flexibility you get with the RPi are really pretty amazing considering the price.

Do you have any pictures or footage? I'd love to see.

I do. I'd rather not post links to them here for privacy reasons.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by hdevalence »

whyenot wrote: post #51

I am using two of those two million RPis with camera modules to record pollinators visiting flowers (backpackable; activated by motion; solar powered). I'm still ironing out some kinks with the software, but the quality of footage produce by the camera module, the low power requirements and the flexibility you get with the RPi are really pretty amazing considering the price.

Agreed about the camera module, with the important caveat that, like most of the rest of the Pi, the guts are proprietary Broadcom stuff. In particular, there are really basic camera settings (the light meter, white balance) that aren't accessible to the user.

Want to maintain a consistent white balance or exposure between shots? Sorry, no can do. And since it's a proprietary blob, it's not something you can fix.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

snom380 wrote: post #65
blisterpeanuts wrote: post #59

I got a Pi and a case and connected it via a USB-to-MIDI cable to my electronic piano, and now I can play and record performances to midi files on the Pi. Really cool. It basically gave my piano a technology update so I don't have to spend hundreds of dollars for one of those newer keyboards with a USB port. My next mini-project is to build a web app that can run these midi tools and list the performances in a nice U…

Ah cool, I do the same thing (with arecordmidi)! Would really love a web interface if you make one.

I'll try to remember to reply here when I get it working.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by [deleted] »

Ihmahr wrote: post #6
melling wrote: post #4

What's the plan for future devices? It would be great if some low cost device like this would have a 12-18 month upgrade cycle and create the sort of buzz as an Apple or Samsung device. Moore's law has benefits at $30 too. Maybe release a $99 version every year then make last year's model available at $35. Get Intel involved? They're really working hard to get into low-power devices.

Except that raspberry runs on arm. Don't see that changing any time soon.

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Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by masmullin »

Derbasti wrote: post #35
joezydeco wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try a Beaglebone Black. Or move up to something like a Boundary Devices unit (Quad-core A9 @ 1Ghz)

Yes, I own a Beaglebone Black. But the operating system and the ecosystem surrounding it is oh so aweful compared to simply-Debian it-just-works Wheezy for the Raspberry Pi. That probably doesn't matter too much if you are building some embedded thing, but I am mostly using my Pi as a web server, and I like that is so easy to set up and configure.

Arch linux "JustWorks(tm)" on BBB.

Relatively easy to get a server going on it, and lxde running as a GUI isn't too shabby (noticeably better than a GUI on the PI).

Only trouble with BBB is the lack of hardware accelerated graphics support (BBB has a graphics chip, but it's not working in any of the current kernels)

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by masmullin »

ck2 wrote: post #2

What's great is now you can just pop onto Amazon, order a model B for $40 shipped and have it at your door in 48 hours.

Try element14. 1/2 the shipping time for $8, and you can order a tonne of other electronics stuff for the same shipping price too. Very good customer service if anything goes wrong too.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by masmullin »

rcarmo wrote: post #69

Too bad that miscellaneous issues prevent them from getting an Android port out -- regardless of RAM and CPU requirements, I've been trying to get a decent accelerated web view going on it since I first got one, and _nothing_ works well enough (Qt5 took forever to stabilise - and still isn't quite there yet, X11 still has no hardware acceleration, there are no browsers that take advantage of Wayland, Firefox OS is st…

I've had Android running on the BBB.

The BBB's main issue is the lack of support from TI for the graphics chip. Android is 'acceptable' on BBB, but the lack of hardware accel graphics puts a major damper on the fun (aka no youtube).

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Post by hartror »

Theodores wrote: post #20

One of those two million is sat under my desk, collecting dust. I know a few others that are, and, I wonder what percentage of that 2 million are in the same situation? Because you need a few bits and bobs to get your pi working there is a major disincentive to complete and finish whatever that hobby project was to be. Hence the situation with my pi - the wait for bits and bobs, a small bout of illness and the initia…

Mine runs the raspbmc distro of XMBC[1], the interface is a touch slow but 1080p videos play perfectly even with soft subs.

[1] http://www.raspbmc.com/

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