Raspberry PI - your electronic letherman

[TransformX]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Provisional specification

700MHz ARM11
128MB or 256MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Optional integrated 2-port USB hub and 10/100 Ethernet controller
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

[Evildead666]

It does look like a fun base to start of many many projects.

Keeping my eye on this too.

Have you seen www.Openpandora.org ?

Its also on my shortlist of Geek-toys.

[dZeus]

other interesting ARM-based projects:

Pandaboard. Some issues: no SATA, ethernet hooked up through USB bus.

Samsung Origen. Similar concerns as Pandaboard.

Trim-Slice. Desktop replacement with nVidia Tegra2. Issues: Limited support for MPEG4 AVC acceleration, general driver support.

And I'm sure you've heard of the recently announced $35 Indian tablet computer too...

[VJ]

Also interesting:

http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-41-dreamplug-devkit.aspx

[dZeus]

Also interesting:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.c...ug-devkit.aspx

Keep in mind that many people got burned by Globaltechnologies with the Sheevaplug and its expiring/overheating PSU.

Marvell also has a questionable stance towards Linux drivers for their SoCs.

QNAP NAS (although you pay for it) have a much higher build quality. They have a line of NAS with the same SoC as the Globalscale Sheevaplug and Dreamplug.

[VJ]

Good that you added the headsup, I did not know...
I also once read a PC about the size of a socket (to be put in a wall!), but forgot the name.

[RedRed]

I am on the mailing lists for the Raspberry PI...


Word is that they will be available from week 2 December.

Cant preorder

Cant wait.

XBMC are apparently working on an port

for £20 could you go wrong???

I want one for a combined nav station, weather station and metric processor built into my boat


Also for a small MAME device

[dZeus]

Another low power (max 12W during load with SATA HDD activity) yet powerfull (dual ARM11 core) device to keep your eye on (e.g. check if the community manage to make it boot debian):
Medion NAS @ Aldi.

Apparently it has been on offer in various countries including Germany and Australia, with others to follow.

[VJ]

A bit a different product - currently prototype - but also looks interesting for some things:

http://www.fxitech.com/products/

(ARM Cortex A9 + quadcore ARM Mali 400MP)

[Evildead666]

A bit a different product - currently prototype - but also looks interesting for some things:

http://www.fxitech.com/products/

(ARM Cortex A9 + quadcore ARM Mali 400MP)

This is supposedly around $200 though, whereas the Raspberry Pi is about $30 ?

[Evildead666]

Another low power (max 12W during load with SATA HDD activity) yet powerfull (dual ARM11 core) device to keep your eye on (e.g. check if the community manage to make it boot debian):
Medion NAS @ Aldi.

Apparently it has been on offer in various countries including Germany and Australia, with others to follow.

Looks like a single disk NAS, but at 99Euros, you can't really go wrong

[VJ]

Production or the RaspberryPI has started!

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509

I got more interested when I could not really find a streaming media client I like. Combine this with a USB touchscreen monitor and some speakers, and if the OS has some good media client software it might be just perfect!

[Jammrock]

For $35 it the Pi B could be a fun toy to play with. I have no idea what I would do with it though. A 700 MHz ARM 11 core doesn't give you a lot of processing power, but the video encoder might make it a worthy media extender. I wonder how MythTV works as a Windows Media Extender.

[TransformX]

Production or the RaspberryPI has started!

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509

I got more interested when I could not really find a streaming media client I like. Combine this with a USB touchscreen monitor and some speakers, and if the OS has some good media client software it might be just perfect!

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archit...s/ARM#Releases and http://xbmc.org/

[TransformX]

Also:

http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoardDistributions#Meego_.26_XBMC

http://www.geexbox.org