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« on: July 26, 2012, 09:18:02 PM » |
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Had mine delivered today. Anybody else got one? | Click to see full-size image. |
 Think I'm going to use mine predominanlty as a media centre.  |
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Graham C
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 09:35:46 PM » |
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Is this one of those small computers? Do you get a case to put it in?
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 09:38:54 PM » |
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Is this one of those small computers? Do you get a case to put it in?
All you get is whats in the pic. You need to get an SD card, keyboard, mouse, power suppy and tv/monitor You can make or buy the cases. |
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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2012, 03:56:52 AM » |
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One of the geeks at work has got one. Never stops going on about it. Uses his as a media centre too
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2012, 09:32:05 AM » |
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One of the geeks at work has got one. Never stops going on about it. Uses his as a media centre too
Lol, I'm def not a geek. |
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2012, 11:01:03 AM » |
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2012, 12:53:52 PM » |
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2012, 12:54:52 PM » |
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2012, 06:29:45 PM » |
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I've been following the Pi's progress with interest since before Christmas. An amazing success story with over a quarter of a million now sold. I reckon I'm about to order mine. I've been holding off because I don't think I'll have time to do it justice but, for £25, why wouldn't you?
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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2012, 07:54:19 PM » |
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I've been following the Pi's progress with interest since before Christmas. An amazing success story with over a quarter of a million now sold. I reckon I'm about to order mine. I've been holding off because I don't think I'll have time to do it justice but, for £25, why wouldn't you?
It's a cracking little device for the money. It's up and running now with one of the most popular Pi versions of Linux. I bit garish in display colours but otherwise great. The main reason for me to buy one was to teach the lad about coding. So i let him put it all together and fire it up for the first time. His first command he tried to type in was 'kill dad' lol. It didn't like the syntax.  Will deffo try to turn it into a media centre though. Could be a cheap way of making a normal TV into a kind of smart TV. |
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2012, 09:08:21 PM » |
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How you getting on with the media centre project? They've recently added the capability to turn it into a PVR too. I reckon this will be my first project - when it arrives  |
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2012, 09:15:29 PM » |
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...and this might be my second |
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« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2012, 07:20:01 AM » |
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How you getting on with the media centre project? They've recently added the capability to turn it into a PVR too. I reckon this will be my first project - when it arrives Unfortunately I havent done much with it yet. Life getting in the way too much. |
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« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2012, 08:23:56 PM » |
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Great news! It's been such a runaway success that they've been able to get it made in the UK |
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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2012, 05:23:15 PM » |
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Received my Pi this week. Due to only owning an imaginary USB keyboard as opposed to a real one, I've not been able to do anything other than install the 'Wheezy' distro on the SD card. I'm hoping to purloin an unused keyboard from work tomorrow or failing that, buy one then we'll get cracking! Perfect timing for the Christmas break. I believe we have another blonde piman as well. |
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