sábado, 2 de fevereiro de 2013

New Buy RaspBerry Pi

A long  time ago that I haven't updated my Blog, I hope that this year the updates come more fast with more news. Since the last update there was so many projects that I have done that when I have time I will post here. For now I will post my recent buy, an Raspberry Pi Model B:


The Hardware Specs:


  • Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
  • GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
  • GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 10/100 BaseT Ethernet ports
  • HDMI socket
  • 2 USB 2.0 socket
  • RCA video socket
  • SD card socket
  • 3.5 mm audio out jack
  • Header footprint for camera connection


  • Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17 mm

  • Some extra Hardware purchased:





    • Dane-Elec Proline 200X SDHC 8GB Class 10
    • DWA-123 Wireless N 150 USB Adapter - D-Link
    • USB Power supply 5v 1.5mA output

    Software Review:

    I installed several SOs and there are a little review for the ones that I have tryed:
    • Raspian: it have a behaviour like an "normal" SO but for some operations like open the browser, open a Web Page with some flash we notice that it's slow;
    • OpenElec: it's a multimedia SO with xbmc, it's very fast because it's a lightweight SO with a few programs. It's very limited but it does what is supposed to do.
    • RaspBMC: that's the SO that I have installed now, it's more slow than OpenElec but it's Debian based and comes with apt-get tool, so it's more customizable  and I want to make some modifications on XBMC so I opt by this distribution. 


    It's all for now. From now on I will post some helpful scripts and modified Add-Ons to watch better TV.