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ok so i will be getting a raspberry pi soon(university crap so im assuming i probably wont do too much interesting with it with school) but wtf can i do with the thing? anything cool i guess i just dont want to hook it up to the tv for a media pc or anything, just wondering cool random things you could do with it? 

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with its whole 512mbs of ram and 300mhz possessor. maybe word processing, maybe.

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with its whole 512mbs of ram and 300mhz possessor. maybe word processing, maybe.

ha yeah. i just dont want the damn thing to go to waste, trying to find something to do with it. 

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Christmas light controller?

 

NAS/Home Server?

 

Retro gaming console?

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Christmas light controller?

 

NAS/Home Server?

 

Retro gaming console?

How does it perform as a NAS? I might invest in a decent external hard drive/WD Red if they're any good
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Play Minecraft on it.

a whole 3fps xD

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Build a portable gaming unit like a homebrew GameBoy (of sorts). Been done often enough, there's tutorials & video logs of folks building them.

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How does it perform as a NAS? I might invest in a decent external hard drive/WD Red if they're any good

 

Haven't tried it myself but it should perform as expected... Powerful processing is not that needed in NAS setups... You might have to connect the HDDs via USB though...

 

It might not be able to handle FreeNAS properly so some extra research is needed...

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You can do in-home streaming with limelightpi, if you have an nvidia graphic card.

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Use the retropie emulator to run classic games, going from the Atari 2600 to the PS2 (doesn't run that well. I tried)

You could use the pi version of XBMC on it for a media system, but that's kinda boring really.

Maybe use it for an automated boat that will sail across a lake etc. (some guys made one that went across the Atlantic or something like that)

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I have one that's always on hooked to a tv that displays the weather forecast. I also have another that it's only purpose is to stream from twitch. They are always on and work pretty well. 

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Haven't tried it myself but it should perform as expected... Powerful processing is not that needed in NAS setups... You might have to connect the HDDs via USB though...

 

It might not be able to handle FreeNAS properly so some extra research is needed...

I mean, I could try do some speed tests with it. The only problem is I have UPNP disabled...
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XBMC, home server, home automation, emulators. Loads of weird shit.

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I used mine for a torrent server, as its not going to make any noise and I could just leave it going.

When I migrated my torrent server to my NAS and moved to Uni, I used it for uploading and downloading to/from the NAS, as it was low power so I could leave it on constantly.

 

At some point used it for XMBC, emulators.

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I mean, I could try do some speed tests with it. The only problem is I have UPNP disabled...

When i tested mine over the network i was getting a few hundred KB/s transfer speeds. I think the CPU is just too damn slow for it. It also cannot run FreeNAS because it's ARM.

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Play Quake 3.

 

Learn overclocking (I got 1200mhz from mine, stacked a few copper coins on it for cooling ;))

 

I use mine as an XBMC media centre ghetto mounted to a TV.

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Play Minecraft on it.

minecraft does not need gpu performance, or even quad cores. minecraft just needs fast cpus. to to able to reasonably play MC you nee about 2.6GHz at least

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Play Quake 3.

 

Learn overclocking (I got 1200mhz from mine, stacked a few copper coins on it for cooling ;))

 

I use mine as an XBMC media centre ghetto mounted to a TV.

i made a usb micro cooler, i took a heatsink from a old mobo (like the one below the ram slots) and i sliiconed a 30mm fan onto it, got a old usb cable stripped it down to wires and then soldered it onto the fan wires and put some shrink rap tubing over the connection. it works great!

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a whole 3fps xD

 

 

The Raspberry Pi edition runs at decent FPS.

 

you would be lucky to get 5fps with setting all the way down with optifine installed. My OLD laptop had a Pentium 4 1.9GHz (OC'ed it to 2.0GHz) and it got about 23fps with everything down to the lowest

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Minecraft Pi edition

 

minecraft does not need gpu performance, or even quad cores. minecraft just needs fast cpus. to to able to reasonably play MC you nee about 2.6GHz at least

There is a pi eddition

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you would be lucky to get 5fps with setting all the way down with optifine installed. My OLD laptop had a Pentium 4 1.9GHz (OC'ed it to 2.0GHz) and it got about 23fps with everything down to the lowest

isn't the raspi one a port of the mobile version? i got it running just fine.

 

the videocore 4 in the raspi isn't too shabby.

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Make Floppy Drive music. That's a big challenge. But I guess it's better to control than on a arduino.

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How does it perform as a NAS? I might invest in a decent external hard drive/WD Red if they're any good

They max out at like 3-4 Mbps and by then all the RAM is used and CPU is maxed.

Even if you overclock it, it doesn't get too much performance.

I don't know about FTP benchmarks since I was running a samba share one one for a while.

And if it maxed out at 3-4 mBps on a Samba server I'm sure FTPS encoding Will bring it to its knees at like 500 kBps

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Fold. At home.

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