My sixteen year old asked for a raspberry pi for Christmas so I got her a starter kit. She has no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions to get her started?
@cengland0 That was my first reaction… but then I remembered I have a couple Raspberries Pi myself and I don’t know why I bought them or what to do with them.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@awk Same here - my son and I got into them for a month or two, then, well, we got all meh about them. I actually just threw 2 of them (brand new) into the fuku I am putting together for the Fantasy Movie League early bird contest.
@awk Yeah, I have three. Only using one (runs Open Plex Home Theater on a Dell monitor mounted on my exercise bike).
I have a bunch of other stuff like the camera, a couple of prototyping boards, shields (or whatever they are called in the RPi world) and I’ve briefly played with a couple of the other OSes for it.
@sammydog01 Hubby and son echoed @dashcloud’s recommendation of instructables. They both said drop back and get arduinos from banggood, most of the additional pieces/parts are interchangeable, i.e. resistors, leds, etc. Make has an awesome book series for Arduino, haven’t looked into pi…
Son also said youtube, but no specific person. Basically, they were useless. I am sorry.
@mikibell Thanks- I think the teen group at our science museum has Arduinos- i might just drop her off there one afternoon with her box of stuff and see if they can help her.
@sammydog01 I use the “Dummies” books all the time, probably more than I’d ever be comfortable admitting without the anonymity of the Internet. Sometimes reading them ahead of time is the only way I know half a shit about the boring things people talk about at parties.
I have the Pi 3 and installed the Retro Arcade on it. It has MAME along with Sega, Commodore, Amiga, and other emulators. Came with a couple DOS ports for DOOM and Duke Nukem.
@sammydog01 This is the video I watched that started it all.
I’m sure there are better step by step guides but these guys are professional real arcade repairmen. They show you their failures and successes. It’s a very long video but worth it if you have the time.
@cengland0 Have you run N64 games on it successfully? I see very mixed reactions to it. I got a pi zero set up last weekend and it works well enough with Sega and SNES, but I’m wondering if $30 is worth it for playing N64, especially since some people can get a lot of games to work and others can’t.
@JerseyFrank I haven’t tried different front-ends. There is a lack of motivation. The Retro Arcade was satisfactory so there wasn’t a need to spend many more hours researching and installing different apps.
Actually, if it wasn’t for the video above, I wouldn’t have purchased the Pie. So that gave me the start.
Go to your local bookstore/news stand and buy one of the Raspberry Pi magazines/booklets there- lots of ideas and things you can do with one.
Otherwise, the Internet is not short of ideas for what you can do with one.
One of the more common things is entertainment-related options: media center, retro game console, etc
Hack-a-day has a large collection of articles about Raspberry Pi ideas: http://hackaday.com/?s=raspberry+pi (and their project site, hackaday.io will have lots of project pages that use a Raspberry Pi).
No idea what else is in the starter kit you got, but I’m going to presume that in addition to the (micro)SD card with noobs, it came with a power supply and cable (i.e. a 5 to 10W microUSB phone charger), a case and probably an HDMI cable.
Some starter kits come with a bunch of hardware prototyping stuff (breadboard, some jumpers, a few resistors and LEDs, maybe some other stuff). Others have a keyboard, the Pi camera or other stuff.
Might be helpful if you linked us to the specific starter kit you got.
You will need an HDMI monitor or TV (you can use a DVI monitor with an HDMI-to-DVI adaptor, tho I’m going to presume your starter kit didn’t come with one; it is also possible to use a composite monitor, but such things are not as common as they used to be).
Personally, I use one of my Pi to run OpenPHT (Open Plex Home Theater) as a client off my Plex Server. It is velcro’d to the back of a Dell monitor; the USB hub in the monitor is the Pi’s power supply and it has an old USB WiFi dongle and an IR receiver to let me use an old remote to control it.
@baqui63 i think her kit has the pi 3, power supply, card, and cables and stuff. We have a crap monitor I got at Goodwill- I need to make another run for a keyboard. That article also looked really good- I bookmarked it, thanks much.
What kit did you get? The kit makers usually have some activities they recommend.
As others have mentioned, its just a small computer. You can plug a keyboard/mouse/monitor into it and install windows, if you want. I have a few hidden around my house as linux servers. One controls my 3d printer, another my fileserver, etc. If your child wants to learn programming, learning how to use the linux command line is super useful, and a raspberry pi is a great way to do that.
@dashcloud actually got it free from Microcenter. When it launched they took reservations at $5 each. When they couldn’t deliver on the promised date, they gave them away when they did arrive (a week delayed).
Microcenter’s stores are a mess and you have to deal with their geeky (I’m proably a geek but recognize it and attempt to disguise it) salespeople with the irritating (1% or whatever tiny thing it is) sales commission. But I still like the place and having a local B&M source for those goods.
@RedOak Who me? Nah. I have an original model B that doesn’t get used, a pi zero that I got for a buck, and then two raspberry Pis that I bought for specific projects that I use all the time.
Back 2 decades ago, everyone always tried to be the first to steal the Fry’s insert from the Friday paper. Going was fun, even if you had to watch for all their tricks. You could have fascinating conversations with other customers in the memory or motherboard areas.
On a Sat or Sun, if someone said they were going to Fry’s, and called around, it was easy to get 4-8 people to come along and make the trip into a Techie’s Day Out.
I guess Amazon and Newegg ate them. I am perhaps in a Fry’s about every 2-3 years and barely any customers each time. The only active section seems that be TV’s. The last two times I went because I saw a headphone or gps listing on slickdeals that was better than amz or newegg, and Fry’s online was OOS. Going isn’t fun. It’s just a PITA.
Best Buy has visibly more customers, in much smaller stores. How does Fry’s manage to stay in business now with those huge empty store/warehouses? Do their corporate clients keep them afloat?
@f00l We used to have family outings there as a kid. We even took a trip out to one far from us to see the different theme/decorations.
What gets me is how empty the shelves are in some sections. I deal with idiot clerks at all stores (though Frys tend to think/pretend they know more than they do), but some sections of Frys look like a supermarket from a zombie movie.
Microcenter tends to be well stocked (or at least not look empty), and the employees are better at helping. First time I went, I turned to me brother and said “wait, its like a good Frys?!?! Why does everyone like Frys if this exists?!?!”.
At the local microcenter, the employees usually know what they’re doing.
At my local frys back in the busy heyday when it was fun, if you had questions for a store employee, and you could actually find one, the employee would tell you to wait while they went and got an answer.
Then the employee would vanish. Probably for good. The some customer who overheard you would come over and not only answer your question, but give you a history of the design of that item.
The local joke was that people applied to work at Fry’s in order to improve their English sufficiently so that they could then work as short-order cooks or taxi drivers.
Frys paid absolute minimum wage. I knew a kid who got hired when he turned seventeen. He didn’t own a car and his parents thought Frys would be a good learning experience.
After his parents realized how Frys was treating him and paying him, they talked him into quitting and offered to drive him to a better job further away. And so he wound up working in a machine shop for double the pay. Then he learned cnc, got a few serious raises, and the shop job paid most of his way thru college.
Re empty shelves. I know. Once those shelves were full to bursting. I think they just can’t get it rolled to come shop so they clear whole areas out.
Back in the day, one Frys had a cafe and a barista in the center of the store. But no more.
Best Buy has visibly more customers, in much smaller stores.
Wow. Never lived anywhere near a Frys but if Best Buy stores are smaller then Frys must be huge.
Our local Best Buy stores are easily at least as big and in many cases a lot bigger than the sole Microcenter in our state.
Rarely go inside a Best Buy and rarely buy anything there other than $4-5 Blu-Ray movies. And now that Amazon seems to automatically match prices, Amazon is a lot easier. (Both charge sales tax for us.)
The local Fry’s is considerably bigger than the largest Walmart Supercenter I have ever been in. Walmart had a huge store in Plano I think, or Carrollton, that’s almost as big as a Fry’s.
Big. Microcenter’s entire local store would practically fit into the Fry’s cash register area.
And the place was packed every weekend 15 years ago. Like sometimes, “hard to move around in” packed.
Adafruit.com is a store for project boards like the pi and others, but they also have lots of ideas with the build instructions. It’s a pretty open ended device so browsing any of the websites mentioned so far to get an idea of how she wants to use it, is going to be necessary. I didn’t really do anything with mine either til I saw a project I really liked that had instructions.
The project I am slowly working on… Gives you strep by steps and the software by following links. I might actually finish this some day… https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/magic-mirror/
Using an old monitor and a “one way” mirror you can make a mirror that has weather, time, appointments, messages, to-do lists … whatever you want really.
@dashcloud These suggestions are so awesome I hope she finds something to try. If not I may mess with it myself. She starts a robot class tomorrow at school so that may help.
@sammydog01 If the school has some clever geeky support that can be an excellent way to learn it. Having someone next to you to get you over the speed bumps.
Our son has been messing around with the robot competition team at his high school. The school is jammed with every imaginable fabrication gadget they’d ever need. And being located in heavily auto industry turf, lots of the parents are engineers of every sort. Sponsors galore.
He did an independent study engineering semester where he looked at ways the school might leverage Pi’s and Arduino’s in projects.
I have purchased 4 pi’s now, of which 2 are actually in use. I have a pi zero with no plans (hey, it was $5) and a Model B not being used (purchased much like you did for your daughter, years ago). I just used a new Pi 3 for a RecalBox (video game emulator) setup in a miniature SNES housing.
I played an NES Classic this past weekend, and now I want a Pi so I can build my own that has Contra and Lifeforce and Tetris on it. Between the games I liked and the fact that the real deal is impossible to find, I’m thinking the DIY way would be good.
I’ll probably get around to it sometime in 2018 - by then, the NES Classic will probably have passed through abundance and on to clearance.
@werehatrack lol I am as well. A bot/spammer resurrected this from 2017. I started starring suggestions/was about to respond before I noticed and tattled. Looks like @narfcake got it.
But some people said they had them in a drawer. Pihole is a good reason to blow the dust off
@unksol@werehatrack I recently went on a trip for a few days. After a couple of blissful years surfing with the pihole on my home network, all the ads from the hotel wifi were a shock.
Go here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/
installing noobs guide:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/noobs.md
hardware getting started:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/hardware-guide/
@thismyusername Thanks! Her kit came with Noobs installed but I’ll show her the third link.
Take it back and give her the cash.
@Pavlov
I’m hoping the kid runs with it.
@f00l No running in the house.
@Pavlov
You didn’t grow up in my house then.
Sorry to hear.
Why ask for the pi and then not know what to do with it? Teenagers.
@cengland0 That was my first reaction… but then I remembered I have a couple Raspberries Pi myself and I don’t know why I bought them or what to do with them.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@awk Same here - my son and I got into them for a month or two, then, well, we got all meh about them. I actually just threw 2 of them (brand new) into the fuku I am putting together for the Fantasy Movie League early bird contest.
@awk Yeah, I have three. Only using one (runs Open Plex Home Theater on a Dell monitor mounted on my exercise bike).
I have a bunch of other stuff like the camera, a couple of prototyping boards, shields (or whatever they are called in the RPi world) and I’ve briefly played with a couple of the other OSes for it.
Now if only I could buy time…
My 12 yo got it for Christmas…I will ask hubs and son for recommendations…
@mikibell Thanks! I was hoping maybe a book or website recommendation.
@sammydog01
There are some really interesting ideas posted on Reddit.
https://www.modmypi.com/
Has really good forums.
There’s a Raspberry Pi Geek magazine (that’s the title IIRC) I had stumbled on a year or two ago - good place to begin too.
Any of the “Dummies” type books will get her started.
@sammydog01 Hubby and son echoed @dashcloud’s recommendation of instructables. They both said drop back and get arduinos from banggood, most of the additional pieces/parts are interchangeable, i.e. resistors, leds, etc. Make has an awesome book series for Arduino, haven’t looked into pi…
Son also said youtube, but no specific person. Basically, they were useless. I am sorry.
@Pavlov Thanks, I will check out the Dummies book. Maybe then I can help her.
@mikibell Thanks- I think the teen group at our science museum has Arduinos- i might just drop her off there one afternoon with her box of stuff and see if they can help her.
@sammydog01 I use the “Dummies” books all the time, probably more than I’d ever be comfortable admitting without the anonymity of the Internet. Sometimes reading them ahead of time is the only way I know half a shit about the boring things people talk about at parties.
I have the Pi 3 and installed the Retro Arcade on it. It has MAME along with Sega, Commodore, Amiga, and other emulators. Came with a couple DOS ports for DOOM and Duke Nukem.
@cengland0 that’s what I use mine for. I almost made a makeshift echo dot/tap but it’s cheap enough to buy a dot now.
@cengland0 That sounds fun- I will look it up.
@sammydog01 This is the video I watched that started it all.
I’m sure there are better step by step guides but these guys are professional real arcade repairmen. They show you their failures and successes. It’s a very long video but worth it if you have the time.
@cengland0 Have you run N64 games on it successfully? I see very mixed reactions to it. I got a pi zero set up last weekend and it works well enough with Sega and SNES, but I’m wondering if $30 is worth it for playing N64, especially since some people can get a lot of games to work and others can’t.
@Moose No, I never had the N64 so I wasn’t familiar with any of those games. Wasn’t interested. Mainly for Atari 2600, old DOS, and MAME games.
@cengland0 I just got an RPi3 yesterday and put Lakka/RetroArch on there. Did you take time to evaluate different front ends?
@JerseyFrank I haven’t tried different front-ends. There is a lack of motivation. The Retro Arcade was satisfactory so there wasn’t a need to spend many more hours researching and installing different apps.
Actually, if it wasn’t for the video above, I wouldn’t have purchased the Pie. So that gave me the start.
Go to your local bookstore/news stand and buy one of the Raspberry Pi magazines/booklets there- lots of ideas and things you can do with one.
Otherwise, the Internet is not short of ideas for what you can do with one.
One of the more common things is entertainment-related options: media center, retro game console, etc
Otherwise, you’ve got a fully functional machine with expansion ports and decent capabilities.
Here’s a nice overview post on Lifehacker about things you can do:
http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-setting-up-your-raspberr-1781419054
Instructables has a number of project ideas:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Projects/
Hack-a-day has a large collection of articles about Raspberry Pi ideas: http://hackaday.com/?s=raspberry+pi (and their project site, hackaday.io will have lots of project pages that use a Raspberry Pi).
@dashcloud That life hacker article looks like exactly what she needs- thanks, I just bookmarked it.
@PlacidPenguin ping.
@f00l pong
A Raspberry Pi is basically a small computer, generally Linux-based.
There are several different versions of the Pi: you can tell them apart with this info.
No idea what else is in the starter kit you got, but I’m going to presume that in addition to the (micro)SD card with noobs, it came with a power supply and cable (i.e. a 5 to 10W microUSB phone charger), a case and probably an HDMI cable.
Some starter kits come with a bunch of hardware prototyping stuff (breadboard, some jumpers, a few resistors and LEDs, maybe some other stuff). Others have a keyboard, the Pi camera or other stuff.
Might be helpful if you linked us to the specific starter kit you got.
This is the “official” starter kit: http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/12/12886652/raspberry-pi-starter-kit (which I’m sure is available in the US now, as that article was from mid-September) but there have been plenty of decent to even better starter kits on the market for years.
You will need an HDMI monitor or TV (you can use a DVI monitor with an HDMI-to-DVI adaptor, tho I’m going to presume your starter kit didn’t come with one; it is also possible to use a composite monitor, but such things are not as common as they used to be).
As for getting the daughter unit interested, take a look at this: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/25-fun-things-to-do-with-a-raspberry-pi/ I’d suggest she take a look at #6 and #24; for #6, she can get joysticks and other buttons, etc. to build her own retro arcade console.
Personally, I use one of my Pi to run OpenPHT (Open Plex Home Theater) as a client off my Plex Server. It is velcro’d to the back of a Dell monitor; the USB hub in the monitor is the Pi’s power supply and it has an old USB WiFi dongle and an IR receiver to let me use an old remote to control it.
@baqui63 i think her kit has the pi 3, power supply, card, and cables and stuff. We have a crap monitor I got at Goodwill- I need to make another run for a keyboard. That article also looked really good- I bookmarked it, thanks much.
What kit did you get? The kit makers usually have some activities they recommend.
As others have mentioned, its just a small computer. You can plug a keyboard/mouse/monitor into it and install windows, if you want. I have a few hidden around my house as linux servers. One controls my 3d printer, another my fileserver, etc. If your child wants to learn programming, learning how to use the linux command line is super useful, and a raspberry pi is a great way to do that.
@MrGlass I got this one: https://www.adafruit.com/products/3058
I’ll have her check their web site. I don’t think it came with instructions.
@sammydog01 Adafruit is great! I got to meet ladyada almost a decade ago, and have bought many of their kits.
That kits description mentions that it has parts for some of the tutorials here https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi
I have no way of knowing scientifically but I suspect at least 55% of the pi’s sold so far are collecting dust.
I think I have a Pi zero hiding under a pile of USB 2.0 thumb drives somewhere around here.
I don’t mean to disparage them. They’re super cool, as are Arduino’s - just need to invest some time to do something cool with them.
@RedOak This lines up with my experience - I have two Pis in active use and two in my box o spare gadgets.
@RedOak You actually managed to buy a Pi Zero?! I thought they were perpetually out of stock.
@dashcloud actually got it free from Microcenter. When it launched they took reservations at $5 each. When they couldn’t deliver on the promised date, they gave them away when they did arrive (a week delayed).
Microcenter’s stores are a mess and you have to deal with their geeky (I’m proably a geek but recognize it and attempt to disguise it) salespeople with the irritating (1% or whatever tiny thing it is) sales commission. But I still like the place and having a local B&M source for those goods.
@MrGlass so you’re one of those Pi hoarders!
@dashcloud Microcenter has em for a dollar all the time here
@RedOak Who me? Nah. I have an original model B that doesn’t get used, a pi zero that I got for a buck, and then two raspberry Pis that I bought for specific projects that I use all the time.
@RedOak If you think microcenters are a mess, you should shop at Frys sometime
@MrGlass no Frys anywhere near us. But judging by the chaos of their emails and online ads that is no surprise.
At least Microcenter has clean email marketing. And rheir customer service is solid. Our local MC managers are very responsive.
@RedOak MC staff is also usually knowledgeable, whereas the people at frys are idiots.
@MrGlass
The classic employment application for Fry’s Electronics
http://homepage.smc.edu/engfer_mark/frys.htm
@MrGlass
Back 2 decades ago, everyone always tried to be the first to steal the Fry’s insert from the Friday paper. Going was fun, even if you had to watch for all their tricks. You could have fascinating conversations with other customers in the memory or motherboard areas.
On a Sat or Sun, if someone said they were going to Fry’s, and called around, it was easy to get 4-8 people to come along and make the trip into a Techie’s Day Out.
I guess Amazon and Newegg ate them. I am perhaps in a Fry’s about every 2-3 years and barely any customers each time. The only active section seems that be TV’s. The last two times I went because I saw a headphone or gps listing on slickdeals that was better than amz or newegg, and Fry’s online was OOS. Going isn’t fun. It’s just a PITA.
Best Buy has visibly more customers, in much smaller stores. How does Fry’s manage to stay in business now with those huge empty store/warehouses? Do their corporate clients keep them afloat?
@f00l We used to have family outings there as a kid. We even took a trip out to one far from us to see the different theme/decorations.
What gets me is how empty the shelves are in some sections. I deal with idiot clerks at all stores (though Frys tend to think/pretend they know more than they do), but some sections of Frys look like a supermarket from a zombie movie.
Microcenter tends to be well stocked (or at least not look empty), and the employees are better at helping. First time I went, I turned to me brother and said “wait, its like a good Frys?!?! Why does everyone like Frys if this exists?!?!”.
@MrGlass for dollar??? Damn. I wish vt had decent electronic stores.
@MrGlass
At the local microcenter, the employees usually know what they’re doing.
At my local frys back in the busy heyday when it was fun, if you had questions for a store employee, and you could actually find one, the employee would tell you to wait while they went and got an answer.
Then the employee would vanish. Probably for good. The some customer who overheard you would come over and not only answer your question, but give you a history of the design of that item.
The local joke was that people applied to work at Fry’s in order to improve their English sufficiently so that they could then work as short-order cooks or taxi drivers.
Frys paid absolute minimum wage. I knew a kid who got hired when he turned seventeen. He didn’t own a car and his parents thought Frys would be a good learning experience.
After his parents realized how Frys was treating him and paying him, they talked him into quitting and offered to drive him to a better job further away. And so he wound up working in a machine shop for double the pay. Then he learned cnc, got a few serious raises, and the shop job paid most of his way thru college.
Re empty shelves. I know. Once those shelves were full to bursting. I think they just can’t get it rolled to come shop so they clear whole areas out.
Back in the day, one Frys had a cafe and a barista in the center of the store. But no more.
@RedOak This is definitely a possible outcome, but her Christmas list was really short.
@f00l
Wow. Never lived anywhere near a Frys but if Best Buy stores are smaller then Frys must be huge.
Our local Best Buy stores are easily at least as big and in many cases a lot bigger than the sole Microcenter in our state.
Rarely go inside a Best Buy and rarely buy anything there other than $4-5 Blu-Ray movies. And now that Amazon seems to automatically match prices, Amazon is a lot easier. (Both charge sales tax for us.)
@f00l @MrGlass
So you’re say’n they have a Kmart feel to them? So sad after growing up when Kmart was the only discount store and was well run. Many decades ago.
@RedOak
The local Fry’s is considerably bigger than the largest Walmart Supercenter I have ever been in. Walmart had a huge store in Plano I think, or Carrollton, that’s almost as big as a Fry’s.
Big. Microcenter’s entire local store would practically fit into the Fry’s cash register area.
And the place was packed every weekend 15 years ago. Like sometimes, “hard to move around in” packed.
@f00l the frys in downers grove, Il still has the cafe.
Adafruit.com is a store for project boards like the pi and others, but they also have lots of ideas with the build instructions. It’s a pretty open ended device so browsing any of the websites mentioned so far to get an idea of how she wants to use it, is going to be necessary. I didn’t really do anything with mine either til I saw a project I really liked that had instructions.
@evbarnstormer Cool- that’s where I got her box of stuff. We’ll look there.
Here’s lots of stuff - http://lifehacker.com/tag/raspberry-pi
@regnowsin Thanks!
The project I am slowly working on… Gives you strep by steps and the software by following links. I might actually finish this some day… https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/magic-mirror/
Using an old monitor and a “one way” mirror you can make a mirror that has weather, time, appointments, messages, to-do lists … whatever you want really.
@Kirgen That sounds so cool!
@Kirgen
That magic mirror setup is causing me to /want.
I am surprised not to find a link to the official answer to the question –
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/so-you-got-a-raspberry-pi-for-christmas-now-what/
It looks like I will be taking one of my Pis and using it to connect my new weather station to the Internet.
@sligett That is EXACTLY what we need. Thanks!
@sammydog01 Hopefully you’ll come back to the thread with what your daughter made.
@dashcloud These suggestions are so awesome I hope she finds something to try. If not I may mess with it myself. She starts a robot class tomorrow at school so that may help.
@sammydog01 If the school has some clever geeky support that can be an excellent way to learn it. Having someone next to you to get you over the speed bumps.
Our son has been messing around with the robot competition team at his high school. The school is jammed with every imaginable fabrication gadget they’d ever need. And being located in heavily auto industry turf, lots of the parents are engineers of every sort. Sponsors galore.
He did an independent study engineering semester where he looked at ways the school might leverage Pi’s and Arduino’s in projects.
You guys are the best! Thanks so much. I would have come here for advice before I bought anything but I was short on time. This is gonna be fun!
@sammydog01 Maybe you’ll be tempted into buying one for yourself as well?
@dashcloud Nah, I’ll just borrow hers. I have more free time than she does.
One bit more while I let this headache subside. You can spend days at the raspberry pi site. Also, they have a magazine that you can get on paper, or on-line. A recent blog article introduced the latest issue. They sometimes give things away with issues, like when the Pi Zero came out.
Oh, and their anniversary is coming up, and they often announce new hardware on anniversaries.
I have purchased 4 pi’s now, of which 2 are actually in use. I have a pi zero with no plans (hey, it was $5) and a Model B not being used (purchased much like you did for your daughter, years ago). I just used a new Pi 3 for a RecalBox (video game emulator) setup in a miniature SNES housing.
I played an NES Classic this past weekend, and now I want a Pi so I can build my own that has Contra and Lifeforce and Tetris on it. Between the games I liked and the fact that the real deal is impossible to find, I’m thinking the DIY way would be good.
I’ll probably get around to it sometime in 2018 - by then, the NES Classic will probably have passed through abundance and on to clearance.
@djslack It was actually a lot easier than I expected following this guide
PI people… google is releasing a voice kit to work with Raspberry PI:
https://betanews.com/2017/05/04/google-open-source-raspberry-pi-diy-voice-kit/
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192
I’m using one to run pihole as a way to reduce assholic ads on everything that connects via the household network.
@werehatrack lol I am as well. A bot/spammer resurrected this from 2017. I started starring suggestions/was about to respond before I noticed and tattled. Looks like @narfcake got it.
But some people said they had them in a drawer. Pihole is a good reason to blow the dust off
@unksol @werehatrack I recently went on a trip for a few days. After a couple of blissful years surfing with the pihole on my home network, all the ads from the hotel wifi were a shock.
@werehatrack
@macromeh @werehatrack you can route through you pihole remotely. But it’s never been worth it to me to do. I’m a homebody.
For those of you who bought Kano Raspberry Pi from here a couple of years ago from here. . .
@rtjhnstn @narfcake @unksol @werehatrack
Cool. Necro-spam. LOL.
Thanks, everyone for the help. I am a student of computer engineering. This discussion helped me a lot…