Anyone else got a Raspberry Pi?

[DannyF1966]

What do you think of this starter kit?

Raspberry Pi B+ Starter Kit - Pimoroni

That's the one I bought, it arrived promptly and contains everything you need. The case isn't the most convenient to use, especially if you find yourself needing access to the expansion ports a lot, and the hdmi cable is very stiff, so your Pi tends to stay wherever the end of the cable is, rather than where you want to put it.

[vetran]

It's not the money, it's the possible clutter if I don't get into it.

Anyhoo....

What do you think of this starter kit?

Raspberry Pi B+ Starter Kit - Pimoroni

if it becomes clutter you would probably get as much back on ebay.

the starter kits seem to be a way to up the profit margin, like the rainbow case though.

[cojak]

if it becomes clutter you would probably get as much back on ebay.

the starter kits seem to be a way to up the profit margin, like the rainbow case though.

Fair enoughski (I'm not an ebay user, so I didn't think of that...)

I guess I could deconstruct the starter kit - is RS Components a good place to buy the bits? (I'm not after the cheapest).

[TheFaQQer]

We have two - one each for the children so they can both do similar things at the same time.

They do some Minecraft stuff, program in Scratch, built Pong in something else...

[d000hg]

AS someone who enjoys coding for its own sake I love the idea, but as someone who spends nearly all his time sitting at a proper PC it feels a bit artificial to buy another computer. Plus I have a whole stack of hobby projects I want to work on for PC/iPad already, without introducing something else

[administrator]

I was toying with the idea of this in Maplins a few days ago. I am not sure Mrs Admin would have thanked me for buying one "for the children" though, they are nine and six and I think it is not a bad time to get them into it.

cojak - PVR personally I would go a bit pokier than a PI. Yes you can run XBMC on it but if you are recording as well I would have thought you would need something a bit beefier.
Raspberry Pi • View topic - How MUCH is XBMC/PVR working for others/you?

I am just getting a few of my old PCs together, new mobo, processor and RAM and will then whack a load of old drives in it so I can get a Plex and FreeNAS box up and running over Xmas.

[d000hg]

9 is definitely old enough to get into some simple coding, if they show aptitude (and more importantly enjoyment) of maths, puzzles, etc. 6... maybe, maybe not. I started VERY young, around that age but it was very simple stuff. I had just started doing guitar lessons and my dad showed me how I could make GWBASIC play a musical note. So I wrote 'programs' which encoded various carols from a recorder carol book, and he put them on his work PCs.

[DannyF1966]

I was toying with the idea of this in Maplins a few days ago.

I think the ones for sale in Maplins are an old version - the model B+ has recently come out, it's got more USB ports, more GPIO ports, uses micro SD instead of SD and a few other tweaks here and there. So if you do get one from Maplins check which version it is first, I've already bought some accessories accidentally for the B instead of the B+

[cojak]

I was toying with the idea of this in Maplins a few days ago. I am not sure Mrs Admin would have thanked me for buying one "for the children" though, they are nine and six and I think it is not a bad time to get them into it.

cojak - PVR personally I would go a bit pokier than a PI. Yes you can run XBMC on it but if you are recording as well I would have thought you would need something a bit beefier.
Raspberry Pi • View topic - How MUCH is XBMC/PVR working for others/you?

I am just getting a few of my old PCs together, new mobo, processor and RAM and will then whack a load of old drives in it so I can get a Plex and FreeNAS box up and running over Xmas.

Ah, thanks for that Admin. It was just a thought - the Pi is the object of my desire, the PVR was just a possible use.

I think I'll just buy it and figure out what to do with it later.

[vetran]

I was toying with the idea of this in Maplins a few days ago. I am not sure Mrs Admin would have thanked me for buying one "for the children" though, they are nine and six and I think it is not a bad time to get them into it.

cojak - PVR personally I would go a bit pokier than a PI. Yes you can run XBMC on it but if you are recording as well I would have thought you would need something a bit beefier.
Raspberry Pi • View topic - How MUCH is XBMC/PVR working for others/you?

I am just getting a few of my old PCs together, new mobo, processor and RAM and will then whack a load of old drives in it so I can get a Plex and FreeNAS box up and running over Xmas.

its better as a client than a server (not quite enough grunt). Hence squeezebox slave & XBMC client.

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