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Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

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Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

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Post by hexleo »

I'm interested in Raspberry Pi. I bought one before. It's just a small PC, use one hand you can hold it. But when you want to Raspberry to do some complex works, it let you down. I want to know where does Raspberry Pi can work well?

Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

#33

Post by learc83 »

schappim wrote: post #24

What's the same: - Same Broadcom BCM2835 Chipset - Same 512MB RAM - Same full size HDMI port - Same 10/100 Ethernet port - Same CSI camera port and DSI display ports - Same micro USB power supply connection What has changed: - Now comes with 4 USB ports so you can now connect more devices than ever to your Raspberry Pi. - There is a 40pin extended GPIO so you can build even bigger and better projects than ever before…

Right now it's possible to back feed power with a powered hub instead of using the micro USB connection. I'd like to see the schematic to find out if that's still possible, but I can't find one yet.

Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

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Post by xiaomai »

xorcist wrote: post #21

The Pi would be infititely more useful to me if the ethernet interface was attached to a "real" bus and not hung on USB. Here's to hoping that will be the next upgrade!

What's the implication of being on the same bus? More CPU usage for ethernet?

Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

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Post by copperx »

I still can't see why would anyone buy one except as one of those toys that you buy and then gets tossed in the closet. 10 years ago I could see the appeal, but now? The robotics, home automation, and weekend project use cases seem like would be better served by a $5 microcontroller.

Some projects, such as the weather station, justify the use of a full-fledged OS, but with the cost of buying an existing, proven, weather station being so low ... why bother?

And for a cheap webserver? A $1/month VPS is more powerful than this thing.

Can anyone tell me what is the use case of this?

Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

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Post by etherealG »

hexleo wrote: post #32

I'm interested in Raspberry Pi. I bought one before. It's just a small PC, use one hand you can hold it. But when you want to Raspberry to do some complex works, it let you down. I want to know where does Raspberry Pi can work well?

The Pi makes a fantastic media center when combined with XBMC.

Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

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Post by newman314 »

hexleo wrote: post #32

I'm interested in Raspberry Pi. I bought one before. It's just a small PC, use one hand you can hold it. But when you want to Raspberry to do some complex works, it let you down. I want to know where does Raspberry Pi can work well?

Raspbmc. Works brilliantly.

Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

#39

Post by codfrantic »

middleclick wrote: post #19

Is anyone running a webserver or mailserver over the Pi? Curious to know how it holds up.

I'm running my girlfriends portfolio page on a Pi, nginx + mysql + php / Wordpress with a caching plugin. Works quite well if the pages are cached (which most are), admin stuff is quite slow.
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