ross549 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 It's running.... nothing surprising to report. It works like a champ. I have a second one on order, and got a notification that RS Components will be sending me one of the rev 2.0 boards with 512MB of RAM... Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 In case anyone has a VGA monitor, this adapter is verified as working for the Raspberry PI: SANOXY HDMI to VGA and Audio Converter (Support 1080P, Input HDMI, Video Output: VGA, Audio Output: 3.5 mm-outs) Verified hardware for the PI: http://elinux.org/RP...fiedPeripherals Review: http://www.element14...o-vga-converter I recently bought a HDMI to VGA converter from Amazon for $27.45SANOXY HDMI to VGA and Audio Converter (Support 1080P, Input HDMI, Video Output: VGA, Audio Output: 3.5 mm-outs) (New, Fulfilled by Amazon, Sold by: US BIGBULL.LTD) It "just worked" for me so far with no problems after a couple days of testing. I'd previously disabled overscan and did not have to make any further configuration changes. The Pi seems to automatically choose the correct resolution and ratio at bootup. The price is now $24.98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Interesting. Do you know how well the Pi works with HDMI -> DVI adapters? The cable I have is passive, and I think all of them are this way. I am having a heck of a time finding a small(ish) monitor with HDMI. Plenty of DVI monitors, though. I can't think of a really good reason why it would not work. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Adam, this should help: HDMI->DVI-D There are three kinds of DVI. There is DVI-D, a digital signal fully compatible with HDMI, so a passive cable can be used. There is DVI-I, which is a connector with both analog pins and digital pins. An HDMI to DVI-D adapter fits in a DVI-I female connector. Finally, there is DVI-A. This a fairly rare connection, but occasionally it will be found on some monitors and is an analog interface, in fact the same as VGA! Some adapters like Farnell part AK-CBHD03-BK are HDMI to DVI-I, which, while not fitting in a DVI-D monitor, are still compatible. The analog pins simply must be bent. The HDMI to DVI-D cable provided by Apple with the 2010 Mac Mini worked. It does not appear this adapter can be purchased separately. AmazonBasics HDMI to DVI Adapter Cable (model SK231) works and is inexpensive. A generic HDMI-to-DVI converter from eBay. Works well, but it's probably the cause of some power loss between the RPi and the monitor, causing this problem. A setting of config_hdmi_boost=5 in /etc/boot solved this. Note that config_hdmi_boost=4, as suggested in the troubleshooting guide, helped but did not solve the problem completely. http://elinux.org/RP...s#HDMI-.3EDVI-D http://www.raspberry...hp?f=28&t=20321 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 The Raspberry Pi Foundation has won an award for skills, training and development from UK trade organisation the National Microelectronics Institute.It won for "its low-cost PC platform and its potential to develop a generation of creative and curious individuals with a deeper understanding of technology - both hard and software", said the NMI..... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/16/11/2012/55022/raspberry-pi-creators-get-national-award.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 I have a Belkin HDMI to DVI-D cable. I assume it will be just fine. I don't think I'll have any issue with it. That's the connector on the bottom. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Does anyone know what fonts are best on Raspbian as they seem a bit fuzzy. I was thinking that it may be the monitor but it looks beautiful on Debian with the old machine plugged up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 DejaVu Sans at 9 point is what my Debian is using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Ok, it is not a font setting then. It must be the values of the monitor. Will play with it later as I am about to go eat some Turkey Day grub..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Scaling on an LCD is really bad most times unless you run the Pi at the monitor's native resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2012/12/14/baldur-pi/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bit-tech%2Fall+%28bit-tech.net+feed%29 Scott Brooks, a server-side architecture developer and system administrator at Beamdog, aims to resolve that lack, taking the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition source code and attempting to compile a Linux version tweaked to run on the £30 Raspberry Pi - a computer which, it must be noted, costs less than did the original boxed Baldur's Gate game at launch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Owncloud-dropbox-clone/ Your own personal cloud for £29 and chicken feed running costs. Don't you just love penguin land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=83235 I just set up me Pi with a 1TB external hd and a old style tv to run vids. Got it to play the vids with OMXplayer with just one click by following the guide above. The only player that will utilize the GPU acceleration is the omxplayer. It should be installed by default, but it is also so basic that it is CLI only. Still, you don't have to open the CLI every time you want to watch a movie. You can easily add a menu shortcut and execute the player every time you click a media file: First Code: Select all # nano /usr/share/applications/omxplayer.desktop Add these values: Code: Select all [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=OMXPlayer Categories=AudioVideo;Player; Exec=lxterminal --command "omxplayer -o hdmi %f" Terminal=false Icon=/usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/96x96/categories/applications-multimedia.png Save and exit. A menu icon should now be in place, and you can right click on media files and click Open with Omxplayer! Even full HD movies play just fine! Works just fine. Though some vids will not play so I guess I will have to buy the codecs. All the You Tube clips I have play just fine. Also audio files, thats .mp3 files play through the player aswell. Whoope now I can pack me Pi and the drive and have entertainment at me mums over xmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 been almost a year since last update? let me fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 http://lifehacker.com/5976912/a-beginners-guide-to-diying-with-the-raspberry-pi?utm_source=Lifehacker+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e4fa41da00-UA-142218-1&utm_medium=email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Very cool, thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 And if you can't decide what to do with your Raspberry Pi: Best of 2012: Raspberry Pi Projects - Make Magazine Projectors, Pandora and Pyrotechnics — 10 Pimped-Out Projects for Raspberry Pi - Wired.com 10 More Mind-Blowing, Skill-Building Raspberry Pi Projects - Wired.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Neat links folks. Here is a very interesting one for giving a speed boost. http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/raspberry-pi-gets-1ghz-turbo-boost-option-1098691 The Raspberry Pi super-cheap computer has been given a 1GHz 'turbo mode' in its latest firmware update, with the foundation insisting that the changes will not reduce the lifetime of your device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Neat links folks. Here is a very interesting one for giving a speed boost. http://www.techradar...-option-1098691 That's been around for at least a couple of months. But the problem is, very few Pis will run stable clocked all the way to 1ghs. But most will run higher than the original 700mhz default. I haven't overclocked mine because I use it primarily as a Samba and FTP server and I'm more concerned with stability than with the small additional transfer speeds overclocking would achieve. I run mine from a USB drive with the stripped down kernel and formatted to ext4. That has increased my transfers from about 3.5 Mbs/sec to close to 7. Overclocking doesn't seem to add very much to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 That's been around for at least a couple of months. But the problem is, very few Pis will run stable clocked all the way to 1ghs. But most will run higher than the original 700mhz default. I haven't overclocked mine because I use it primarily as a Samba and FTP server and I'm more concerned with stability than with the small additional transfer speeds overclocking would achieve. I run mine from a USB drive with the stripped down kernel and formatted to ext4. That has increased my transfers from about 3.5 Mbs/sec to close to 7. Overclocking doesn't seem to add very much to that. Darn I should have looked at the date Are you running without a sd card then lewmur ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I thought the Pi needed a SD card to boot the kernel image. I seem to recall somewhere that it could not boot without it. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Pi Camera coming soon Once again, the Foundation is aiming for a $25 price point, and the camera board should go on sale some time early in the new year. Corporate communications lead Liz Upton says that a small mount will be available too, so that you don’t have to tape the camera to your Pi. You can if you want to, of course, because the Raspberry Pi is all about making hackable computing more accessible and letting people’s creativity run wild. 3D-printed cases and mounting hardware is nice, but they’re not a critical part of the equation. Cool HD quality home security for £50. That is what I thought too Ross 549. Was why Ii asked the Q. Edited January 24, 2013 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Darn I should have looked at the date Are you running without a sd card then lewmur ? Yes and no. You have to have the SD card with the .elf and .cfg files to start the boot process. You change a line in the cmdline.txt file to tell the boot process to look for the OS image on the USB drive and it immediately shifts to the USB drive. You can then remove the SD card. The SD slot can then be treated as an "external" drive and plug cards in and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 $25 Raspberry PI camera board demoed, coming early 2013 http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/25-raspberry-pi-camera-board-demoed-coming-early-2013-20121123/ Cheap as chips home security. Lewmur - does it run better like that ? ie smoother,faster etc. Or do you do it just for storage without the need for a powered external drive ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 http://www.paritynews.com/software/item/582-openarena-now-playable-on-raspberry-pi The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the release of OpenArena – a multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) game based on Quake III, for Raspberry Pi. Available as a free download the game has been rated ‘Adults Only’ because of the blood and violence. The open-source game is free to download and is powered by the ‘ioquake3’ fork of the engine that Quake III runs on – id tech 3 engine. Modifications have been made to the gameplay by removing the copyrighted material and adding new free content. Don't you just love them pi's 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) http://www.geek.com/...-2013-20121123/ Cheap as chips home security. Lewmur - does it run better like that ? ie smoother,faster etc. Or do you do it just for storage without the need for a powered external drive ? It runs much better. BTW, I just received my RK3066 based Mini PC. Cost $65 shipped with HDMI and Micro USB cables. Has built in Bluetooth and Wifi 1.6ghz Dual Core Cortex A9 CPU, 1gb RAM, 4gb Flash and SDHC slot. Comes with Android Jelly Bean but will run Linux. Doesn't have the GPIO pins or other "tinkering" features of the Pi, but for someone looking for a "media" device, it is a much better deal. Edited February 5, 2013 by lewmur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I like the sound of the RK3066. had a quick peek at some reviews and it seems impressive. Wonder how Linux would run on it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I like the sound of the RK3066. had a quick peek at some reviews and it seems impressive. Wonder how Linux would run on it ? Give me some time to play with it and I'll let you know. But it, with a dual core, 1.6ghz CPU and 1gb of RAM, I'm hoping it will be a lot better than the Pi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Plan-9-ported-to-the-Raspberry-Pi-1761509.html Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi I have not stopped laughing since I read the above. Plan 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 http://lifehacker.com/5982354/automate-everything-in-your-home-using-siri-and-a-raspberry-pi?popular=true Automate Everything In Your Home Using Siri and a Raspberry Pi Sounds cool. Would be great if I had an electric garage door or security system with cameras or a modern tv or even a thermostat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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