Time for Pi

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

Hello Evan,

As

Em sábado, 18 de maio de 2013, Nicholas escreveu:

> Hi Evan,
>
> If you live in Toronto, I highly recommend buying your Raspberry Pi at
> Creatron, at College & Spadina.  It'll cost you $5-10 more than ordering
> from a distributor, but it's worth it to not have to deal with shipping
> (which will cost you anyway).  Also: instant gratification!
>
> If you want to run your Pi as a media system, you should look into
> buying Codec licenses from raspberrypi.org -- this will activate the
> hardware video decoding acceleration for smooth video.  Also, try to use
> the audio-over-HDMI capability for a home theatre system -- the
> audio-out jack doesn't have much in the way of an amplifier on that
> circuit, so if you use it instead of HDMI-audio you may need a pre-amp.
>
> As for cases, we at Hacklab.to have been laser-cutting cases out of
> acrylic, using a design created by AdaFruit.  Scott Sullivan has been
> awesome with this, and has produced most of the cases that are now
> adorning RP's around the lab.  If you drop him a line (scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org<javascript:;>
> ),
> assuming he has some available he might be willing to part with a case
> or two for a small sum to cover his time/cost, or a couple of beers.
> Scott offered to cut a case for me when I bought an RP and it turned out
> *great*, so hopefully he still produces them.
>
> There are also commercial cases available from lots of hobby electronics
> places (including Creatron), so you should hunt around.  I like the
> AdaFruit case best, but the Pibow (
> http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow ) is a pretty gorgeous second
> choice.
>
> With regards to KDE... eh, maybe.  I kind of doubt it.  Mine runs a
> lightweight window manager and kind of strains to keep up with anything
> that needs heavy computing power, or is graphics intensive.  But you
> should experiment and find out!  Maybe someone has already proved me
> wrong?  Worst case scenario is that you yank out the SD card and dd a
> new Raspbian image to it.
>
> Which reminds me -- you'll want an SD card.  I got a high speed Phillips
> 16GB SD card from Fortune Computers (also at College & Spadina) for $10.
>  It does a pretty good job.
>
> --Nicholas
>
>
>
> On 18/05/13 12:40 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > OK, you've convinced me. I wanna get a Raspberry Pi. Maybe more than
> > one. Probably to play around with, but maybe ultimately as a home
> > theatre client running Rasplex.
> >
> > Now ... about procurement...
> >
> > The two sites that are the direct sellers -- Newark and Allied -- both
> > appear to make you create an account before they'll tell you shipping
> > costs. What are they? Is one suppier clearly better than the other? Is
> > there any clear advantage to multiple people pooling into one order?
> >
> > (I'm looking to get a Model B)
> >
> > Is the system fast enough to run KDE?
> >
> > And finally ... what are people doing for cases?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Evan Leibovitch
> > Toronto Canada
> >
> >     Em: evan at telly dot org
> >     Sk: evanleibovitch
> >     Tw: el56
> >
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