David Braben's Raspberry Pi PC launched

[Selezen]

Damn, that's nice.

[Gimi]

Raspberry Pi running the Oolite Debug Console.
It's useful for something Oolite already.



Edit: Running both the Debug Console and OoliteInfo 0.2 by Maaarcooose.

[maaarcooose]

Excellent.

I've just paid for my PI and it looks like you've saved me the trouble of testing OOliteInfo on it.

Got it in my head to do a new version soon.

!m!

[Gimi]

Excellent.

I've just paid for my PI and it looks like you've saved me the trouble of testing OOliteInfo on it.

Got it in my head to do a new version soon.

!m!

No problem. Did have to dig into the Debian repository to find out what I needed to install to get the wxpython libraries onto the RPi. Appart from that it was rather straight forward. OoliteInfo does run kind of slow, so there may be some room for optimisation. But then again, so does the debug console. Might as well be my RPi setup or just too little power in the Pi.

[Cody]

Pi in space!

[Davespice]

Raspberry Pi running the Oolite Debug Console.
It's useful for something Oolite already.

This looks very promising!

[NigelJK]

I have used CPC (aka Farnell) for years, but I'm not affiliated in any way (apart from being a satisfied customer).

Raspberry goodies ...

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/besp ... CMP=Em_RPi

[maaarcooose]

I have used CPC (aka Farnell) for years, but I'm not affiliated in any way (apart from being a satisfied customer).

Raspberry goodies ...

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/besp ... CMP=Em_RPi

That would indicate that they have them in stock and are deliverable now.

I've still got 3 weeks to wait for mine that I ordered 2 months ago.

!m!

[Cody]

Pi x 64!

[Selezen]

Finally got another chance to set up the Pi and see if I can get it working last night.

And I did - it's now on the internet and everything! I have 2 SD cards - one with the latest build of Raspbian and one with the latest version of Xbian (the media centre OS).

Both are running lovely. I played with Scratch, went on the internet and tried to download Chrome for Debian (unsuccessfully) before trying out the Xbian build. On that I watched an episode of Danger Mouse and some videos I downloaded from YouTube. Everything ran beautifully and the picture was crystal clear! The latest Raspbian build seemed to clear up the screen sizing issue I was having with the earlier build (when it was still called a Debian build) and now I have full screen Pi beauty.

Now I need to work out what to do with it!! And put it in a case.

Not had a lot of luck getting an external hard drive to work with it yet, but I think that might be a power thing. My USB memory cards and the card reader all come up fine through the USB hub, but the HDD doesn't show up on either OS. Need to try plugging it directly into the USB on the Pi to see, but I have a feeling that I'll need a powered hard drive rather than one that gets power from the bus.

Now the challenge is to learn how to use linux again before trying to do something clever with it. Scratch looks like fun (as I'm sure Drew can confirm).

[Selezen]

Sorry to reply to myself here, but after some looking in el reg for an article in another thread, I found a link to this: an awesome read!

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1901

[Selezen]

Replying to myself again, but it's a good reason - this is the first time I'm posting on the forum from the Raspberry Pi itself, so it made sense to use this topic...

Yeah. Using midori. Not much else to say, really. Maybe I'll build an R2 unit...

[Davespice]

Any news on this? I would love this game to be on the Pi, I think for it to be really successful the platform needs a good, meaty, game like Oolite to get the kids interested.

[NigelJK]

There is now an 'official' RiscOS distro. I did post a message about oolite for all those looking to get ArcElite working (it doesn't as it's 26 bit so will only run under emulation), and some have visited as I got a thank you from them.

[Cody]

A Raspberry Pi can open a garage door, it seems.