Raspberry Pi Model B

[danrok]

I've ordered myself one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008PT4GGC/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i05?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Plus a few extras like a case, USB hub, nano USB wi-fi adaptor, etc.

Not exactly a gaming rig, but useful for building gadgets and general messing around.

 

[Gizmo]

Are we going to have to start calling you "Aiden2"?

 

[danrok]

Not quite, this more like hacking for dummies.

 

[booman]

Awesome, I'm sure you remember my story...
Pre-Ordered one and several months went by and the order got mixed up. Never got it and was never charged for it.
So I still don't have one.
I love the idea and I'm sure the Ubuntu ARM distro has come a long way. So hopefully there are some gaming capabilities for light gaming by now

 

[danrok]

I will be trying out Raspbian first:
http://www.raspbian.org/

 

[booman]

I have heard that DosBox run on ARM and there are some emulators for PC games....

 

[danrok]

There's some recommended games for it here: http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects?category=games

 

[booman]

Wine developers are also interested in a Wine port to Android. Meaning running PC games on ARM processors.
If that becomes successful then the list will be even bigger.

 

[danrok]

It's not suited to to running games under Wine. Would be far too slow.

 

[booman]

Probably, but maybe there is a chance... programmers seem to figure out anything once they put their minds to it.
I noticed some comments on Open Arena (Rasberri Pi Store) that it would barely run.
I know its not made to be a gaming machine, but even Dos games are enough to get few hundred games running.

 

[danrok]

Here it is.

 

[Aedan]

Are we going to have to start calling you "Aiden2"?

...

 

[danrok]

Project One is Bitcoin mining.

I now have one Antminer U1 ASIC plugged in and working on my Windows box. It's averaging 1.97 Gh/s at stock speed.

I have another Antminer U1 on the way, plus a USB hub, so I can get both of these mining with the Raspberry Pi.

 

[danrok]

View attachment 4211
...

What board is that?

 

[Aedan]

It's a Uno32 - Arduino-ish, but 32bit MIPS core, rather than an 8bit processor. In this particular case, I'm fuzzing EDID data.

 

[booman]

Dude you are a hardware rockstar!

 

[danrok]

Getting there...

 

[danrok]

I now have this Raspberry Pi bitcoin mining using bfgminer: http://bfgminer.org/

The ASIC is now hashing at the same rate as it was on my Windows box. But can be left switched on 24/7 because it is silent, and doesn't use much power.

 

[rolandttg]

I have had my Pi for a good little while. Neat little gadget. Slow as heck but just dandy for web surfing. It may do a lot more but my skills are limited.
I am kind of slobbering over an Odroid.

 

[danrok]

That Odroid looks very good, quite a bit more powerful.

The Pi is ideal for stuff which doesn't need so much processing power.

Next thing I will be trying is setting-up some kind of Wikipedia bot.