Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

Post by CaptSpify » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 9:44 PM UTC

TD-Linux wrote: post #97

tonylemesmer wrote: post #45

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If you've ever tried to get wifi working (esp on earlier RPis) you'll understand it is not that simple. Especially for newbies. Having said that its a good baptism of fire. Raspberry Pi with built in wireless comms means it uses a standard piece of hardware so the software stack can be configured to work out of the box. That can't happen with the existing arrangement. Also the power supply problems with original Pis…

This doesn't really reflect my experience at all with the RPi 2. The edimax or official wifi dongles "just work" with NetworkManager. With the early RPi it was a bit different because of USB power problems and kernel bugs, but those are mostly solved.

Post by jweather » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

zymhan wrote: post #53

I love how the FCC still has a Sun web server

Post by kale » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 10:01 PM UTC

akhilcacharya wrote: post #66

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I'm still waiting for a Zero. A Zero with onboard Wifi would be brilliant: really small, needs little power, and you don't need to hook it up to anything but the power supply.

Get a Chip!

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 10:05 PM UTC

_lce0 wrote: post #4

Raspberry is the most important project that made my family interested in "computer things" It gathered the whole family together to play old couch-games[0], something that most powerful consoles haven't even been close --specially with the grampas Really exited about what the future will bring us! 0: http://emulationstation.org/

Post by khedoros » Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 10:16 PM UTC

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Actually, for N64 emulation, I have a 100% full speed fork of Mupen64Plus for the Pi 2 sitting around on my hard disk that I hacked together a while ago. I should really clean it up and post it to GitHub. There's no fundamental reason why the N64 can't be emulated at full speed on that hardware. The VideoCore IV blows the RDP away in fill rate, after all. It's just that the available video plugins are old and aren't…

Please do! I couldn't get full speed Mario on my i7 Mac which is way more powerful than a pi!