$35 LAN Party...

[Molly Tournquist]

It's an awfully conventional arangement(which could be interpreted as stale). You're still dealing with a somewhat awkward, less-than-neat bundle of components. For one thing, it's a bit odd to for everyone to have keyboards in an arangement where they can just talk to each otyher. I'm under the impression that people are already doing this kind of thing with laptops.

Don't get me wrong, it's not at all unexpected that rapberry pis will be used MOSTLY for gaming, but what seems fitting is something stranger and specialized.  Well, technically you don't need a keyboard and LCD monitor to play quake 3, but...


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Colin McGregor
> Sent: 01/28/13 08:12 PM
> This is all a long way round to ask if there would be an interest in a
> Raspberry Pi (the $35 (US) computer) "Open Arena"
> (http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects/openarena?adult) LAN party?
> Okay, you can't get a Raspberry Pi fully running for $35 (you need a
> keyboard, mouse, SD card, power supply, etc.), but still... In other
> words, reasonable cost for entry, plus carrying a Raspberry Pi,
> keyboard, mouse, LCD monitor, etc. (assuming you don't go for say a
> 50" screen) could all be done in a typical knapsack / canvas shopping
> bag.

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