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Former Member over 10 years ago

as it sounds a laptop made with multiple raspberry pi's my idea is to make a laptop with a raspberry pi 2 and some raspberry pi 1's, im not sure how it'll work but it sounds cool the idea i had is to have a laptop with a 10in screen that runs on 1 raspberry pi 2 and 4 raspberry pi 1's, i essentially would like to see it be a gaming comp if possible now another huge thing is a detachable wireless controller with dual analog that has a charging base built in to the laptop

 

the components are

-1 raspberry pi 2

-4 raspberry pi 1's

- detachable wireless controller (preferably with analog sticks like the 3ds)

-buil in charging base for the controller (possible based off the charging base of the 3ds)

-10in screen

-some sort of graphics card that can be upgraded

-maybe a slot for a ram stick in case

-and whatever else a laptop needs

 

basically what i thought would be cool is to use the raspberry pi's as ports and ram, also what could be awesome is to have two on the raspberry pi 1's in the screen section of the comp on either side behind the screen and the others in the base

the hardest part is the controller dock, reason i suggested the 3ds based dock is its a pressure trigger and two prongs that charge the controller, and the analog stick from the 3ds cause its small and flat , a good place for it is probably on the back of the monitor. the shape of the controller should be small and rectangular like a phone and the layout similar to a ps2 controller with the buttons set to be read like keys off a keyboard to make setting up with games easier the d-pad can be WASD and one of the analog sticks as well, the other analog stick can be set to the arrow keys, sorry if this is a bit much but to me it seems like a pretty cool idea

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    william_hoffer over 10 years ago

    Cool idea, yes, practical idea, no. What you are creating would be a cluster computer, ie a mini supercomputer, which is great for working on tough mathematical problems. You would have too hook them up to each other but each is computer and just like there bigger brothers you can not just connect them up and make a big computer. It doesn't work like that unless you building a super computer.

     

    What you designed here at best would be the slowest bitcoin machine ever, mining a bit coin maybe every couple of months. The raspberry Pi 1 computer has only 256 megabytes ram on it and with 4 you get 1 gig of ram and then add in the Raspberry 2 1 gig of ram you have only two gigs of ram and ypou probaly could not play more than facebook games. If you meant the Raspberry Pi B or B+ they had 512 megabytes of ram and with 4 you get 2 gigs of ram plus one more from the Raspberry 2 and that's three gigs of ram.To play mechwarrior online you need a minium of 4 gigs of ram. The Pi was never really meant for gaming like that.

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    william_hoffer over 10 years ago

    Cool idea, yes, practical idea, no. What you are creating would be a cluster computer, ie a mini supercomputer, which is great for working on tough mathematical problems. You would have too hook them up to each other but each is computer and just like there bigger brothers you can not just connect them up and make a big computer. It doesn't work like that unless you building a super computer.

     

    What you designed here at best would be the slowest bitcoin machine ever, mining a bit coin maybe every couple of months. The raspberry Pi 1 computer has only 256 megabytes ram on it and with 4 you get 1 gig of ram and then add in the Raspberry 2 1 gig of ram you have only two gigs of ram and ypou probaly could not play more than facebook games. If you meant the Raspberry Pi B or B+ they had 512 megabytes of ram and with 4 you get 2 gigs of ram plus one more from the Raspberry 2 and that's three gigs of ram.To play mechwarrior online you need a minium of 4 gigs of ram. The Pi was never really meant for gaming like that.

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