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Ten million Raspberry Pis

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Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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£99+VAT is overpriced. Similar items can be bought for 60 USD (or even less), shipping included (buying at Amazon and/or eBay).

> This is an unashamedly premium product: the latest Raspberry Pi, official accessories, the best USB peripherals we could find, and a copy of the highest-rated Raspberry Pi book.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

If you have a Raspberry Pi collecting dust somewhere, consider donating it. In some cities there are groups that refurbish and donate old computers to schools/NGOs/etc. They might give them a good use.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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post #2

I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

I have an original Pi 1. When I first got it it was also collecting dust. Now it's on our boat, monitoring power, watching the bilge pumps, and uploading AIS traffic to marine traffic and aishub. And when sailing it pumps out instrument data to a smartwatch.

What it does is up to you, you are only limited by your imagination.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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post #2

I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

I have three Raspberry Pi 1, model B and two Raspberry Pi Zeros. Not a single one is in use. And for running an emulator (SNES etc.) I will probably need another one with more power. Not sure what to do with the others right now.

The original pi and zero will run SNES fine. It's the beefier systems that you won't be able to run like PSX and N64. Give retropie a try and see for yourself.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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post #2

I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

It's really useful to have one lying around though. When I upgraded my home Mac to El Capitan, it stopped being able to talk to my old HP laserprinter. After I'd stopped cursing, I grabbed a Pi that was lying around waiting for some unfinished project, and had a linux print server up and running in about 30 mins.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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post #2

I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

So are a lot of regular computers and phones.

So true. I'm sitting in an ad agency right now and I see at least half a dozen laptops and desktops abandoned on shelves.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have three Raspberry Pi 1, model B and two Raspberry Pi Zeros. Not a single one is in use. And for running an emulator (SNES etc.) I will probably need another one with more power. Not sure what to do with the others right now.

The original pi and zero will run SNES fine. It's the beefier systems that you won't be able to run like PSX and N64. Give retropie a try and see for yourself.

Thank you very much for your comment. What do you think about Recalbox OS? Some people say it´s better than RetroPie, but I don´t know (and do not really care as long as it works).

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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post #10
post #7

£99+VAT is overpriced. Similar items can be bought for 60 USD (or even less), shipping included (buying at Amazon and/or eBay).

"This is an unashamedly premium product", says the webpage. The Pi was originally designed with re-using existing peripherals, and will be used that way most of the time, but there's still demand for a premium starter kit.

That's still twisting words. There's nothing "premium" here, it's just a kit. People should spend 50 bucks on a 2nd hand Core2Duo ThinkPad and some mcu for GPIO, they'll learn as much for less.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

I have three that are collecting dust. I had plans to build a supergamegirl, but with tablets so cheap, and work so busy . . .my ambitions for the pi's just died.

I also ended up buying a 50 dollar ubuntu intel computer stick which was great, and replaced the raspberry pi for emulation.

I have a friend who has a 3d printer and tons of electrical engineering gear, who just loves his, and does tons of products with them.

Re: Ten million Raspberry Pis

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post #2

I wonder how many of them are just collecting dust in peoples' desk drawers. We ordered two of the original ones for our office to play around with them, but only now, after 4½ years, I finally managed to find use for one as music player, after I decided I was too lazy to plug/unplug the speakers from my laptop.

I have 2 collecting dust, the other is a git server I'm not bothered to migrate to bitbucket.
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