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Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
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Funky Papa
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I know what I'm putting inside my first bartop arcade machine.
Get sum POVray up in that bitch.
Get sum POVray up in that bitch.
Nostremitus
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So... Could I set one of these up as a Video Streaming HTPC? Are there ARM OS's that idiots like me can use?
John Blade
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Is they a where to get this magazine from north america or better just buy the item separately.
Reposting this. Will pay both the mag andand the postage, of course.
at the tesco I went to, they had maybe 10 in the rack
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
How crazy is it that you get a full computer as a magazine freebie.
I still remember when diskettes where a big deal
That said I think I will skip this one, I already have the first and second version and don't really need a third mini PC.
But these ones will be great for hobbyists!
I still remember when diskettes where a big deal
That said I think I will skip this one, I already have the first and second version and don't really need a third mini PC.
But these ones will be great for hobbyists!
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
This is making me cackle like a madman.
A fucking computer, for free, with the purchase of a magazine.
Yeah. Not sure what I'll do with it but for the fuck of it why not?
EdwardTivrusky
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My local WHSmiths is getting them in tomorrow morning, they still had November's on the shelf. I'll be around at their door at 8AM
... maybe 9.00 ish actually, i'll pop into waitrose for my free coffee on the way back
... maybe 9.00 ish actually, i'll pop into waitrose for my free coffee on the way back
Iacobellis
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Probably more powerful. For starters, I remember computers using 64 or 128MB of RAM back then.
MrCunningham
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get a free 5 dollar computer with the purchase of a magazine? Geeze... I still remember when floppy disks came with magazines. How far we have come.
I want one.
I want one.
it's like the AOL discs but awesome.
WalesGAF unite!
You'll be better off just buying a Pi Zero from a retailer in the US and you can download an electronic copy of the magazine for free from their website anyway. The magazine is tall enough it'd cost too much to ship to be worth it.
MrCunningham
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Its one of the best free magazine giveaways that I have ever seen.
at stock yes
you could easily overclock the rPi1 to 1ghz through. i wonder if there is any headroom to OC this version further.
eso76
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I guess that would work, and would get me 50frames rendered much, much, much faster than a single i7.
That's in theory though. It will probably just run out of memory with most scenes.
The WH Smiths near my work in Temple didn't have any and the Sainsburys and Tescos are all those little express ones with half a magazine rack. Going to try some bigger shops on the way home and hope they're not all gone. Not massively fussed if I miss out as they'll be readily available for cheap soon anyway and it's not like I'd know what to do with it when I got one!
Lady at the WHsmiths that I just checked said somebody bought all 6 copies earlier today u_u
Zepp Twofist
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I really wish I could think of a cool project to do with raspi. I've got a couple of model Bs collecting dust (though one of them randomly fails after around a day or so of uptime).
Zombie James
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RazorbackDB
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Anyone knows someplace with international shipphing? More specifically to Chile, South America.
Xisiqomelir
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A Pi B running Kodi has been my HTPC for years.
radios shipping overview
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This is pretty cool. In the past couple of weeks I've been working on a Raspi2 as a realtime audio processing box running Puredata patches. I'm really pleased with its performance. This looks a little too small for more serious applications, but it'd still be great for wearables and single-use tasks. Would be awesome to try to build a Eurorack synth module of some kind around one.
Could the Zero do the same?
Mine had 20k:
I had this bad boy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sord_M5
Internal hardware[edit]
CPU: Zilog Z80, 3.58 MHz
Video Hardware: TMS9918
40×24 text (6×8 characters), 224 user defined characters
256×192 graphics, 16 colours
32 hardware sprites (up to 16×16 pixels)
Sound Hardware: SN76489
3 sound channels
1 noise channel
6 octaves, 15 amplitude levels
RAM: 20 KB (of which 16KB is screen memory)
ROM: 8 KB expandable to 16KB
Xisiqomelir
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It's got a faster CPU and the same GPU, so yes.
Mini-HDMI probably needs an adapter for most TVs, though. And no USB means config via SSH.
It does have USB.
I popped into local WH Smiths and Sainsburys this lunchtime and was unable to find a copy of the mag anywhere
Zepp Twofist
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Just get the model 2 instead. You'll save the price difference by not having to buy adapters for usb 3, hdmi and ethernet. And it's more powerful.
edit: As Ragnamith pointed out there is no usb 3. I thought it was type c connector for some reason, but it seems like it's micro usb. In either case, you need an adapter.
Was planning on getting the 2 for Christmas to use as an emulation box with RetroPie, is it possible to run both off the same box without much difficulty?
Yeah that was a pretty Bullshit scene.
Snakethesniper
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where can I get one from italy?
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