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What's Your Pi Plan??

Former Member

Hi!

 

Just curious about what people were planning on using their Raspberry Pi's for once they started getting them!??

 

Current plan- SFF Media PC / NAS etc mounted onto the VESA on the back of my TV

 

Later plan- Replace car stereo etc with RPi

 

Probably not the most origional use there but still, godda start somewhere!

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  • I have at least sort of two different plans with the Raspberry Pi

     

    1- Use it for research on low cost embedded Linux application development as a remote or central controller for other systems, Internet of Things kind of stuff

        Some of the stuff I'm working on I started to post it here http://www.element14.com/community/thread/18981?tstart=0

     

    2- I was planning to put together sort of a development lab, contributing my time and funding to have a bunch of R-pis on a local High School, but I'm having second thougths about it given that I'm loosing confidence in the Raspberry Pi Foundation to be able to deliver, and some attitudes that have been developing over there, on top of some of the techincal issues related to the board. I'll probably put the money on something more reliable and with more features, it will probably be more expensive but at least it won't blow up TVs or force me to try a collection of power supplies, SD cards, keyboards, etc, etc, to make sure they work

     

    I was really excited about the R-pi, I've other ARM based development boards such as Beagleboard, Beaglebone, Pandaboard, etc., but my level of exciment with the Pi declined considerably, I'm now waiting for shipment of the http://apc.io/.

     

    -J

  • in reply to jamodio

    why the decline of excitement? I have not kept up with the recent new of RPi so please share whatever made you loose faith in the RPi foundation image

  • in reply to Former Member

    It's difficult to be excited when you have to wait what seems like an eternity for delivery. Still waiting, waiting......... There were 103 on ebay this morning (at excessive prices) so the supply situation is clearly flawed.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Element 14 must have internal projections of by what date Pi boards can be expected to be available ex-stock.  I wish they'd let us know too.  Until then, it's pretty much impossible to plan ahead with Pi.

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