What can't you do with a raspberry pi?
>>51655106
Run crysis lol xd
bring your wife and kids back to life
Compute the travelling salesman problem in linear time
>>51655106
Literally everything. And I say that as someone who owns 2 of them. Meme tier device at best. Useful for a mumble server and maybe a file server if you're poor.
>>51655106
Pretending that interpreters like CPython et al are fast enough for the most tasks.
Find a use for it after the novelty wears off.
Configure a bluetooth controller without latency
most things the average consumer would want to do on a computer
imho its only good for computer controller prototyping, and there are much better alternatives. (cheaper, smaller, lighter, and more powerful)
>>51655154
Using eBay is O(1) and you can use eBay from an RPi.
>>51655371
>most things the average consumer would want to do on a computer
That's because it's not made for consumption. It's designed as a cheap, disposable learning and hacking platform for kids and nerds.
use gentoo (distcc or sabayon like binarys) to unleash the power of the Pi!
>>51655449
thats not the way they're selling it
>>51655106
Shovel snow
>>51655106
Buy it and let is collect dust with all of your other impulse buy shit.
if i were to get a bunch of these would i be able to mine bitcoins?
>>51655504
>We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
It's exactly how they are selling it.
>>51655504
You mean companies lie/bend the truth to sell things? Wow!
>>51655645
Not at a profit.
>>51655106
>what can't you do with an rpi?
uh... just about anything useful at least not without a great deal of frustration over how fucking slow and laggy it is.
>>51655106
order subway
>>51655747
>implying you can't set it up as an autodialer with a text to speech ordering script
>>51655106
Use it as media center for anything that isn't bit rate starved
Use it as a "regular" computer
Buying 3 of them (assuming you already >>51655779
SD cards and whatnot) is a cheap way of playing with a cluster
>>51655779
>implying the sandwich god delivers
>>51655804
oh but the sandwhich god does indeed deliver
>>51655106
6th gen console emulation
>>51655828
freaky fast
I don't think thats around me
>>51655840
my mom said you were freaky fast in bed when she gave you a pity fuck
>>51655854
>tfw i loved it
>>51655106
who the fuck thought this case was a good idea? sure it looks nice, but there is absolutely no insulation and even small shit like this can overheat
>>51655828
>>51655840
A jimmy johns once took a half hour to deliver when it's normally 5-10 minutes. It disturbed me.
>>51655858
if you'd bothered to exert a little restraint it might not have been a one time thing, but as it stands you're a bad lay
>>51655106
Get laid.
>>51655134
I don't know what this is but I find it UNBEARABLY cute.
Should I build a Raspberry Pi cluster if I want to play with distributed computing?
>>51656044
You could also just use virtual machines
>>51656068
Will my T42 handle that though?
>>51656068
VMs remove some of the "challenges" of distributed computing though
>>51655106
Did that fancy box cost more than the rπ?
>>51655665
Raspberry Pi foundation is a non-profit you fucking retard
>>51656086
Like what?
>>51655654
>capable computer
>things your desktop does
>spreadsheets
>word processing
>internet browsing
>games
>high definition video
sure thing bud
>>51655872
thats because we usually have 1 driver in the shop during a shift and if there are 3-4 deliveries at once its going to take 30 minutes
>What can't you do with a raspberry pi?
Anything ACTUALLY FUCKING USEFUL.
It's a hobby computer for hobbyists.
>>51655592
Nice try
>>51655312
/thread
>>51655833
>6th gen console emulation
>>51655106
Play crysis
>>51658537
I know. It reminds me of pic related which never manifested into anything useful.
has anyone here built an HTPC using raspbery pi? i've been casually looking into it, but i wasn't sure if there was anything else out there that worked better. i really want to integrate all of my music, movies and streaming into one box that i can control with my phone.
>>51655958
false:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f607z/owners_of_a_raspberry_pi_what_do_you_use_it_for/ca7an5w
>>51656118
>he thinks non-profits don't pay their workers
>>51659553
there's a difference between paying only for salaries/infrastructure and being totally for profit and publicly traded
>>51655106
Ok so rPI is a meme. What's a real nigga board for actually learning embedded programming?
>>51659575
What do you think RPiF does with revenue in excess of their planned budgeting?
bonuses
for execs
Not use a different OS
>>51659624
Emulate some AVR or MIPS
>>51659483
ran openelec on a pi 2, it was slow in the menus, but video playback was smooth. grab a flirc too.
>>51659714
whoops, pi 1, but b+
>>51655134
LMAO TOO FAR SENPAI
>>51655132
/thread
>>51655106
Acquire an GF.
>>51655106
anything useful
>>51655504
I don't understand why anyone would want this outside of hobbyists, and maybe businesses looking for a cheap platform to prototype on. Advertising it as a computer that does everything is silly, while maybe true, it's going to be slow as hell for normal desktop use, and lack application support since it isn't x86-based.
And if you're learning general programming, any computer will do, and it is extremely likely that if you are buying a Raspberry Pi, you already own or have access to one.
>>51659730
i'm looking at the pi 2
twice the ram, quad core processing. figured it could be quite speedy. flirc looks neat af.
thanks, just wanted to see if anybody liked it or whether it was a gimmick.
Are they good enough for a blender renderfarm?
>>51659624
The BeagleBones are pretty popular in industry. SoCs are also gaining a lot of popularity, so boards like the ZedBoard and SoCKit are nice. There are many more, those are just a few that stick out in my memory.
The Raspberry Pi doesn't really do anything particularly well. Its main problem is that it tries to be a device for multiple purposes yet it does all of those things extraordinarily poorly.
It attempts to be a cheap desktop machine for children to program on yet its performance is abysmal for pretty much anything graphical. Browsing the web will slow the device down to a crawl even if you overclock it significantly while using the hardware-accelerated browser.
It then attempts to be a microcontroller with its GPIO pins which are only tolerant to 3.3v and lack the necessary resistors to protect it from voltage spikes. This means that if you accidentally wire things up the wrong way or don't have a level converter you will possibly trip the polyfuses or maybe even kill the CPU and the whole device if you're unlucky.
Others use it as a home theatre device and attempt to watch videos on it during which they find out they have to pay extra for hardware accelerated video decoding. After buying the codecs and learning that their media is in the wrong format and won't play they will then attempt to maybe get a Pi 2 only to learn that the license keys are bound to the specific device meaning they have to cough up again.
Some will attempt to use it as a headless file server with a connected HDD that is larger than the device itself that flaps around and looks unsightly. They will then need to get a USB hub for it as well. When transferring files they'll learn that the LAN is on the USB along with their drive meaning that the already slow 10/100 LAN port will be even slower.
>>51655106
Make senpai notice me
Is the bootloader still only available in binary format?
Could a Pi do a Plex server to take the load off the personal PC or hosting it from the same server the files are actually on?
So that it goes NAS - > plex/pi -> roku?
>>51660126
no, the motherfucker can barely play video, it would die trying to real time transcode it
>>51660248
Ya didn't think about that since I don't set it to transcode just to play as original, still would probably choke a Pi I guess.
Wonder if the CoreDuo in the server would even manage it.
>>51655134
>weeaboos that have to have anime girls plastered everywhere
Nothing more pathetic. Christ.
>>51660437
I'm not into anime but I think it's cute
>>51655312
this
I can use it as a computer, sure. 80% of the things I do regularly could be done on the Pi (down from the usual 90% or more I can do on a faster x86 based Linux system, I'm running Windows right now). I can shitpost on it, use MilkyTracker, have the standard set of compilers and interpreters, run pretty much all the Linux software I use fine, emulate the PS1 and earlier on it, and most importantly, shitpost on 4chan. You probably could use the Pi (at least, the Pi 2) as a day to day machine if you really, really wanted to. It wouldn't be remotely ideal, but you could.
But I literally have three other machines that are better for that purpose within arms reach of me.
also, my Pi is plugged in over composite because I don't have an HDTV in my room, trying to use it as a computer for more than a few minutes at a time with that flickery, low-res interlaced display is the actual worst (and there's no way to filter the Pi's video output, so any thin horizontal line on the screen is just flickering horribly and making me want to look away)
considered using it as a seedbox, but I barely torrent anything so it doesn't really matter
>>51655739
only thing that's been particularly bad is trying to use iceweasel on it
it will just stop responding for almost a whole minute
Gave up and used Midori, and all is better.
except the 4chan inline extension is slightly broken and you can't change any of the settings
>>51660248
oh yeah, this
if your Pi is set up as a general purpose machine, it's fucking awful for video playback in general
and shit could days to transcode anything, don't even want to think about how bad running FFmpeg on it might be (maybe not as bad as I'd expect, considering you can actually leverage the 4 cores on the thing when encoding, but they're still slow and each like a fifth of the performance of an ordinary modern laptop CPU)
fuck, the i5 in this laptop can be a bit slow at transcoding
>>51660720
I don't know how people do it, I feel embarrassed if I have anything like that, even as a desktop wallpaper
>>51655106
Have sex with it. In a literal sense.
>>51655828
LOL Jacob and or Michael go to bed.
>>51659734
>>51655134
didn't know was that guy,
is offensive and hurtful I know this is chan but got me this time, just hope he doesn't read it
>>51660840
>is offensive and hurtful I know this is chan but got me this time, just hope he doesn't read it
moralfags pls go back to reddit
>>51659906
TL;DR if you appropriate interfaces on one, a Pi could be hilariously outperformed by an android tablet.
>>51660780
>flirc
yea I wouldn't want any of those pics anywhere near my stuff too but they look cute on other people's stuff
>>51660864
>flirc
oops I meant to google that lolol
>>51655106
try a backpropagation neural network without diying first.
>>51660848
is obvious that you really really belong here, finally you found it! you're right, I'll go back to reddit, I can't handle all this edginess, bye.
>>51659822
I bought a banana pi2.
4x the RAM of the Pi 1 B+, twice the compute power, USB3+mSATA3.
Thing is still slow as balls.
>oh, you wanna compute simple additive formulae in a spreadsheet? Hang on that'll take 30 minutes...
>takes 10mins to save a 30kb RTF file over mSATA to a SSD for no reason
>oh you want to transcode 1080p video in h.264? That'll be...3 hours per gb
>oh you wish to do literally anything in h.265 other than play it? lolnope
>compile Gentoo? Yeah senpai I can do that...but you'll die of old age before it's done
I use mine as an ftp server and personal VPN.
You can also set it up as a proxy.
>>51660437
>Getting mad on a shitty Japanese image board
Nothing more pathetic. Christ.
I use my original model B (256MB) to stream audio to the amp in my lounge room.
Either via SharePlay (FOSS AirPlay server) or Bluetooth.
It works well for this purpose - I might even get a $5 pi zero to replace it so it uses less power and use the original for another project.
>>51659624
TI Tiva C
>>51660954
Jacky 4Chan is a chink
>>51655645
My pi (original model b) mining dogecoin at an absurdly slow rate
>>51655977
Go play Nekopara, it's based on that.
>>51660936
>takes 10mins to save a 30kb RTF file over mSATA to a SSD for no reason
>oh, you wanna compute simple additive formulae in a spreadsheet? Hang on that'll take 30 minutes...
the hell?
the rest are expected, but those two sound like something's wrong
unless you're just exaggerating for effect
>>51660936
stop BSing, Pi isn't a master at anything besides being cheap.. but banana pi only has 1gb of ram and an rpi b model has 512mb ram, hows that 4x more?
no wonder your pi took 30minutes to compute your formulas...
>>51660987
model B has 512mb ram.
>>51661797
No, I think they increased the ram in the B+
>>51661948
I stand corrected: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/models/README.md#modelb
Actually the early boards had 256mb, but than they bumped them to 512mb.
>>51655134
So how powerful is a cluster of 8 RasPi compared to an actual desktop? Is it worth it? Won't it use comparatively more power?
>>51659449
Kinda looks like a C-64 cartridge.
I use my Pi as an SSH server. I run an IRC client on it and then SSH into that from my laptop. That way I'm always online and don't miss anything, even when switching devices.
It's still got plenty of CPU power to spare. Specs wise, the thing is more or less a laptop from 2005.
>>51659906
>Some will attempt to use it as a headless file server with a connected HDD that is larger than the device itself that flaps around and looks unsightly. They will then need to get a USB hub for it as well. When transferring files they'll learn that the LAN is on the USB along with their drive meaning that the already slow 10/100 LAN port will be even slower.
meanwhile the origional bannana pi had a built in sata port and gigabit ethernet.
>>51661977
Right, that makes sense, I vaguely remember there being revisions of the model B
>>51655106
It's a 3d meme. You can only put them in drawers and forget about them.
>>51661979
it wouldn't be even remotely powerful for anything you would use a desktop for, no.
there would be useful applications for a cluster like this though, eg 'smart home' applications, routing data from various devices and automating various things.
>>51656044
>>51655134
>>51662139
How would I go about building a cluster? This obviously would apply to any computer, but with the rPi as an example? Any starting points?
>>51659734
Nah, he deserves it. Fat faggot.
>>51661106
The cartoons are Chinese too.
>>51659630
Gruel for the technical staff.
>>51660936
>implying you can't cross compile the kernel on a x86 platform
>>51662182
Essentially all a cluster is is a bunch of computers on a network processing data together. Hardware wise you take your computers of choice and plug them into a switch and you're done. The rest is with software, which you can read up on
Basically
>master node distributes tasks among slave nodes
>slave nodes compute and deliver results to master
>master processes results
>repeat as necessary
>>51655241
Is it feasible to turn it into a wireless router ?
Is the RPi0 have decent CPU?
Enough to basic web surfing and playing youtube videos?
And how many volts does it need? 5V?
If so does it work with 3-4 AA batteries?
Got mine running as an AirPlay receiver attached to the living room amp. Works great, but couldn't really find any other use for it. Did have it set up as a web server briefly, and then the novelty wore off.
>>51663572
Same as the first, and 5V regulated through usb.
You could get that with 4 AA's.
>>51655106
>mfw compiling nodejs on raspberryB takes fucking ages
Running for atleast an hour now
>>51663797
I see.
So 4 AA's directly connected to the microUSB OTG pwr port should work?
Or do I need a capacitor or something in between?
>>51662182
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij1SSgrDdBc
>>51663811
>So 4 AA's directly connected to the microUSB OTG pwr
4x1.5=6V, could hurt it a little, you probably want something like pic, just search "AA to USB".
It can get 5v out of a single AA, it just won't last too long.
is a raspberry pi and one of those old and goddamn huge CRT screens from pre-2005 enough for learning how to program? don't even care if its slow as long as isn't unstable and doesn't overheat from browsing 4chinz.
>>51660940
What VPN program? This is what I'm planning on doing
If you, like me, ever plan on going completely off the grid with electricity usage with solar energy, I think using a raspberry pi-type mini computer as a replacement for your main computer will go a long ways toward that goal.
>>51663838
Thanks anon.
I want to use it as a pirate radio to broadcast anti government propaganda.
>>51663871
As long as your CRT has the correct video inputs, sure.
But why not just use the computer you're using right now? Guaranteed the Pi will be worse than it in every meaningful metric
>>51663809
I'm pretty sure you can just install it with apt-get install nodejs.
I have the old B+ in use as an internet radio and the new B2 with retropie as a console emulator
How does it compare to an arduino?
>>51664500
On the topic of using a Pi for radio/music
Is there a way to connect an entire surround sound system to a Pi without being a huge bulky power consuming receiver box? I want something small and elegant alongside the Pi's small form factor.
>>51663871
The Pi's video output is HDMI so you'd need a vga to HDMI adapter to connect it to an old monitor. There are cheap LCD screens available these days. Tontec's 10 inch one is nice. Chalkboard Electronics have some very nice ones, but they cost more and have to be shipped from Malaysia.
