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Author Topic: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?  (Read 10052 times)

renluop

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Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« on: February 02, 2015, 07:02:59 PM »

Article on new version in PC Advisor.
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loonylion

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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2015, 08:38:40 PM »

yep going to get one :)
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2015, 09:03:48 PM »

The B+ seems to be more than adequate for the job in hand and only hope that 6X more computing power does not meen 6X more wattage power  :-\

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/
« Last Edit: February 02, 2015, 09:25:56 PM by NewtronStar »
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sheddyian

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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2015, 01:52:56 AM »

The B+ seems to be more than adequate for the job in hand and only hope that 6X more computing power does not meen 6X more wattage power  :-\

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

The quotes and initial reviews seem to suggest it's slightly more power hungry than the B+, but not by much - similar to the original (and less efficient) model B.

I'm quite excited and have ordered one.  The desktop experience of the Raspberry Pi is a bit disappointing, to the point of being infuriating if you're trying to use a web browser, so the extra CPU power is very welcome.

That said, I've got several older Raspberry Pis (including an earlier Model B with only 256Mb RAM) and they work fine doing what I've got them doing, be it media centre (Kodi/Raspbmc), NAS with 2 hard disks attached, or temperature monitor and chiming Big Ben bongs in my shed every hour  ;D

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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2015, 08:53:03 AM »

  I will wait to see reports of windows 10 running on it.  I am not keen on that but if it allows Bald Eagle1's Hg612 modem stats to run on a Pi it would be worth it.   :)
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2015, 09:32:18 AM »

I thought HG612 Modem Stats originated as a set of Unix scripts?
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2015, 10:53:24 AM »

   I think it may have before before becoming supported for windows.
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2015, 11:01:52 AM »

So it can't be that hard to go back. But, I note Windows 10 may only support Modern apps on RasbPi, the type you would find in the Windows store.
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2015, 11:04:06 AM »

the type you would find in the Windows store.

  Yuk!
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2015, 11:37:58 AM »

I actually live down the road from the Sony factory the Pi is made in, and it's an amazing production line. Recent local press showed images and video from inside.

I too will be ordering the Pi 2, will be interested to see and test out the improvements!
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2015, 11:55:45 AM »

I seem to remember Asbokid was up in arms about their dubious open-source credentials
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2015, 01:58:25 PM »

This is Microsoft's not-much-info-yet announcement about Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 2

http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support

Since they're talking about maker communities and the like, it would seem that they want to encourage home tinkerers to develop stuff for it - so HG612 modem stats might not be impossible  ;D

An interesting fact is that the new Pi has an ARMv7 processor, so it'll run other OSes that support ARMv7, eg Ubuntu as well as Raspbian.  Previous Pi was ARMv6 which was a bit long in the tooth and didn't have much support.

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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2015, 02:59:24 PM »

Hmm, looks like 12 GBP to sign up as a developer. That's a one-off lifetime payment.
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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2015, 07:43:47 PM »

  I will wait to see reports of windows 10 running on it.  I am not keen on that but if it allows Bald Eagle1's Hg612 modem stats to run on a Pi it would be worth it.   :)

If it supports the running of 32 bit Windows applications, it may work.

Dot Net is required for the HG612 Modem Stats GUI, but it can also still be used by manually creating the scheduled task & manually editing the HG612_stats.ini file.


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Re: Another slice of Raspberry Pi, anyone?
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2015, 09:13:45 PM »

The developer pages seem to suggest it would use Win32, but more announcements to come as they say.
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