What do you use your Raspberry Pi for?
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drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
I'm old school like that. Way too easy to burn things upGood thinking. Assuming the Raspberry Pi has some sort of temperature sensor I'll be using my nice little temp monitoring script.
Still haven't bought a Pi, but considering one to drive a pair of radio transmitters (AM and FM). Feed the transmitters audio, store the programming, etc.
Have to get up to speed with Jack and other other tools to get the solution hammered out and see if the Pi can keep up.
Well, I finally decided to play with my Pi tonight. No net connection to it so connecting to it via ethernet.
Was able to ping the Pi, the Pi could ping my debain desktop. Could SSH into the Pi via my PC BUT the connection keeps dropping. I can fix it by reassigning the IP back to eht0, but it's a pain in the ass.
So, I can SSH into my Pi. I have a couple minutes to play around with it 'remotely' (its 2 feet away from me) and then terminal locks up. Can't ping it, can't reach it. I reissue, 'sudo ifconfig eth0 [iP]' and can connect to the Pi again. Repeat. What do I need to do to get this to 'take hold'?
Was able to ping the Pi, the Pi could ping my debain desktop. Could SSH into the Pi via my PC BUT the connection keeps dropping. I can fix it by reassigning the IP back to eht0, but it's a pain in the ass.
So, I can SSH into my Pi. I have a couple minutes to play around with it 'remotely' (its 2 feet away from me) and then terminal locks up. Can't ping it, can't reach it. I reissue, 'sudo ifconfig eth0 [iP]' and can connect to the Pi again. Repeat. What do I need to do to get this to 'take hold'?
nunim
VPS Junkie
Looks neat but I figured it would be related to something earlier in the thread that my wife might enjoy...
wlanboy
Content Contributer
What os + version are you using?
CrunchBang on the desktop (Debian) and Raspian on the Pi.
Chronic
Member
I tried RaspBMC during it's early stages, but have later switched over to Xbian, which has been performing great. I'm running it on a Model B though and I haven't tried network streaming yet, I've been using a USB key.
I got mine from ModMyPi. It's fairly sturdy and it looks nice enough. I got the regular model in black, but they have a few different ones in selection along with a ton of other accessories.Out of curiosity, did anybody buy a case for theirs? I was looking at some of the cases online and they look pretty cool but I also found some nice instructions for building cases out of LEGOs which are fun and cheap.
wlanboy
Content Contributer
Ah ... you might have get one of the broken images then...
Remove all lines in the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" (or better just delete the file) and reboot.
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Thanks for that info. Much appreciated. Id definitely buy the newer 512MB version.
I'm a big fan of XMBC. It has always worked quite well for me over the years. My first XBMC project was actually soft modding an original XBOX into a media center to play XVID AVI's. It worked well for a long time until I wanted to play HD video and the poor little ~Pentium 3 CPU in there couldn't keep up.
The Pi has a transmitter built in, or rather, you can run certain software and connect an antenna up to one of the GPIO pins and it's a very good FM transmitter.
wlanboy
Content Contributer
Transmit FM using Raspberry Pi and no additional hardware. <- One of a lot of reasons to read HackADay.
Chronic
Member
Not sure if this counts, but I've just set an old MicroSD card up with Raspbian, cross compiled the Armory Bitcoin client for ARM and am using it as a cold storage Bitcoin wallet. Just an idea, if anyone was thinking about anything similar. The Raspberry is great for this purpose because you don't need to dedicate it to the task and can instead just swap the MicroSD cards when needed.
https://bitcoinarmory.com/
https://gist.github.com/FiloSottile/3646033
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156003.msg1691384#msg1691384
https://bitcoinarmory.com/
https://gist.github.com/FiloSottile/3646033
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156003.msg1691384#msg1691384
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D. Strout
Resident IPv6 Proponent
I've got an HDMI to DVI cable and a mouse from them. It is indeed basic, but it works just fine. They both seem like sturdy products: the cable is a bit thicker with solid connectors and the mouse feels well put together. No complaints, for the price.
AWESOMENESS!!!! Luckily I found a 2GB SD card to play with and just as I finished putting RPITC on it there was a knock at the door. I was logged into my Windows 7 VM about 5 minutes after opening the box and it's not bad but not as good as my netbook of course.
I'm wondering if I set the resolution lower it wouldn't be so choppy. Right now it's usable in 1600x1200 but even as I type this there's a bit of a delay. I've got MTPuTTY open with 12 tabs and it's smooth as can be though so I'm sure it's just Chrome being slow.
I will probably pick up a 8GB card tonight for PiBang to see how well that works. I do have to say that RPITC is beautiful and would make an excellent OS by itself (Debian based with LXDE).
I'm wondering if I set the resolution lower it wouldn't be so choppy. Right now it's usable in 1600x1200 but even as I type this there's a bit of a delay. I've got MTPuTTY open with 12 tabs and it's smooth as can be though so I'm sure it's just Chrome being slow.
I will probably pick up a 8GB card tonight for PiBang to see how well that works. I do have to say that RPITC is beautiful and would make an excellent OS by itself (Debian based with LXDE).
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Pi has an FM transmitter built in? Never heard/knew this before. Do you have a reference of some sort to support this feature so I can get up to speed?
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Interesting hack. Low bit rate though and probably not best sound. Looking at it for tinkering though. Neato.