Kickstarter for world's first $9 computer: Wondering if the technically-endowed here think this is worth the investment. I'm thinking the $49 Pocket C.H.I.P. looks interesting.
@Lotsofgoats The newer Raspberry Pi 2 is pretty amazing! I ended up spending a few bucks more to get it via amazon with prime shipping (after adding shipping from another site to the normal $35 price tag, it only came out about $2 more on amazon).. I've set up one with KODI which is a lot smoother than my Pi 1's were.. And I'm working on setting up retro-pi on another one to try and run emulators.. I got the software loaded, but didn't have time to go through all the effort needed to connect a wireless Xbox 360 controller to it. I also really like this project: http://www.retrobuiltgames.com/the-build-page/porta-pi-arcade-kit/
@KDemo I think it looks pretty awesome! I'm thinking the same thing about the $49 one. The only downside about it that I'm not fond of is the lack of digital audio, so the HDMI board doesn't output sound. I use most of my Raspberry Pi's as XBMC (KODI) systems, so that was my first though here.. The $49 one could still conceivably run KODI and output sound through the headphone jack.. Making a small portable video player.. Pretty sweet! Also, it could probably run some emulators (as alluded to in the description), turning it into a gameboy or something similar. One more REALLY sweet possibility in the future is using NVIDIA Gamestream capability that is hopefully being added to KODI to allow you to play high end games from your good PC via this thing remotely!! Making it a SUPER cheap gaming device :) (with a crappy tiny screen)
I was a backer of CHIP, but only because the $9 base system is a great way to throw lots of computing power at small projects. Adding any of the relatively expensive I/O boards to the mix quickly makes this a poor value considering the other options already available.
Hell, even though the Raspberry Pi has name recognition, the original was terribly underpowered for non-graphical tasks, and the Pi 2 still hasn't caught up to the Odroid-C1's capabilities at the same price point. I would strongly recommend the latter to anyone considering a Pi 2 or a CHIP with the HDMI board.
@trisk I love my Pi 2's.. They have a quad core processor, and plenty of ram for KODI. I haven't played with an Odroid-C1, so I can't compare.. But it's still a good computer. Plus, it's got a pretty huge community building for it, so I don't have to do everything myself ;). I prefer OpenELEC for my KODI setups.
@trisk Also, the Pocket C.H.I.P. for $49 compares pretty favorably to the price of the PiTFT from Adafruit.. I'm sure you could find another display for cheaper if you shop around, but this one has a similar resolution (https://www.adafruit.com/products/2097), and costs $45 just for the display.. For $49 I get a CHIP, Display, Battery, and Small Keyboard. Seems decent :) Worth looking at!
Cool, I also love OpenELEC, though I use it on an Intel mini-PC for software video decoding. It's also available for the Odroid-C1, though it appears many Odroid users run Kodi on Android, as it allows them to also access Netflix and other streaming apps.
@kadagan I agree the display and keyboard are well priced if you need them, though I prefer to operate my devices remotely using the screens already around me. The "Pocket CHIP" is cute, though.
@mehdaf The Ubuntu Compute Stick has 1/2 the RAM and 1/4 the storage.. Seems like it would make more sense to get the Windows one and reinstall with Ubuntu ;-)
@brhfl There are a lot of things in this world that I understand.. And even more things that a quick google will make me understand.. But this comment is not one of them.
Really niiiiice. I had considered the Raspberry Pi Compute module, but they want more for that than the full Pi computer. This one is actually cheaper, and built with modularity in mind. It'll probably make a better CPU module for the Motorola lapdock. I'm getting an EE chubby thinking about this.
Dude, did you see this? WiFi and Bluetooth built in!
Loving the topic auto-image.
bananas for sale?! I'll take 3
anyway why not just go for a raspberry pi and not wait until 2016 to mess around with your baby computer? that's what I did
@Lotsofgoats The newer Raspberry Pi 2 is pretty amazing! I ended up spending a few bucks more to get it via amazon with prime shipping (after adding shipping from another site to the normal $35 price tag, it only came out about $2 more on amazon).. I've set up one with KODI which is a lot smoother than my Pi 1's were.. And I'm working on setting up retro-pi on another one to try and run emulators.. I got the software loaded, but didn't have time to go through all the effort needed to connect a wireless Xbox 360 controller to it. I also really like this project: http://www.retrobuiltgames.com/the-build-page/porta-pi-arcade-kit/
@kadagan I have retropi "working" in that it only crashes my Zelda rom after I exit the inventory ._.
@KDemo I think it looks pretty awesome! I'm thinking the same thing about the $49 one. The only downside about it that I'm not fond of is the lack of digital audio, so the HDMI board doesn't output sound. I use most of my Raspberry Pi's as XBMC (KODI) systems, so that was my first though here.. The $49 one could still conceivably run KODI and output sound through the headphone jack.. Making a small portable video player.. Pretty sweet! Also, it could probably run some emulators (as alluded to in the description), turning it into a gameboy or something similar. One more REALLY sweet possibility in the future is using NVIDIA Gamestream capability that is hopefully being added to KODI to allow you to play high end games from your good PC via this thing remotely!! Making it a SUPER cheap gaming device :) (with a crappy tiny screen)
I was a backer of CHIP, but only because the $9 base system is a great way to throw lots of computing power at small projects. Adding any of the relatively expensive I/O boards to the mix quickly makes this a poor value considering the other options already available.
Hell, even though the Raspberry Pi has name recognition, the original was terribly underpowered for non-graphical tasks, and the Pi 2 still hasn't caught up to the Odroid-C1's capabilities at the same price point. I would strongly recommend the latter to anyone considering a Pi 2 or a CHIP with the HDMI board.
@trisk I love my Pi 2's.. They have a quad core processor, and plenty of ram for KODI. I haven't played with an Odroid-C1, so I can't compare.. But it's still a good computer. Plus, it's got a pretty huge community building for it, so I don't have to do everything myself ;). I prefer OpenELEC for my KODI setups.
@trisk Also, the Pocket C.H.I.P. for $49 compares pretty favorably to the price of the PiTFT from Adafruit.. I'm sure you could find another display for cheaper if you shop around, but this one has a similar resolution (https://www.adafruit.com/products/2097), and costs $45 just for the display.. For $49 I get a CHIP, Display, Battery, and Small Keyboard. Seems decent :) Worth looking at!
Cool, I also love OpenELEC, though I use it on an Intel mini-PC for software video decoding. It's also available for the Odroid-C1, though it appears many Odroid users run Kodi on Android, as it allows them to also access Netflix and other streaming apps.
@kadagan I agree the display and keyboard are well priced if you need them, though I prefer to operate my devices remotely using the screens already around me. The "Pocket CHIP" is cute, though.
If you are looking for something easy to use as a media display or you want HDMI support, consider the Intel Compute Stick in Ubuntu.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html
For other more robot like projects you could consider a Wandboard or an Arduino also.
@mehdaf The Ubuntu Compute Stick has 1/2 the RAM and 1/4 the storage.. Seems like it would make more sense to get the Windows one and reinstall with Ubuntu ;-)
@kadagan although I agree, anytime Windows is mentioned around here it causes too much rabble so I was pandering to the crowd.
…too busy lusting after that Beophone to read any further…
@brhfl There are a lot of things in this world that I understand.. And even more things that a quick google will make me understand.. But this comment is not one of them.
@brhfl That's a phone? The numbers are in the wrong order!
@kadagan I found it: http://telephonelines.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=668
More info: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeoCom
I looked at it but the PiPeople responded w a price cut to $25 on the B+ so I'll stay in the Pi world.
this is an upgraded version of the starter kit I got for my pi a week or two ago:
http://deals.kinja.com/the-new-raspberry-pi-2-gets-an-ultimate-starter-kit-dea-1704770605
I think I’ll just wait for The Singularity. It needs to happen fairly soon, I'm not getting any younger here.
@Teripie - Can you hold out until 2045?
@KDemo It's highly doubtful. sigh........
Really niiiiice. I had considered the Raspberry Pi Compute module, but they want more for that than the full Pi computer. This one is actually cheaper, and built with modularity in mind. It'll probably make a better CPU module for the Motorola lapdock. I'm getting an EE chubby thinking about this.
Dude, did you see this? WiFi and Bluetooth built in!