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Raspeberry Pi + electric Shocks = Genitalia abuse!

Sounds like an interesting science project?!

Lol Bbloke, Dirty fecker
Have one of these + case and psu, still in the box. Need SD card to install the OS.
Thinking of using it is a media player in me car.

I have never heard of this thing until yesterday and there it is again.
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...thought this might interest you nerds.

Old thread but I didn't think it was worth sticking a new one up.

I've got a raspberry pi B+ model. Came as a kit from Amazon.
Raspberry Pi Start Kit

I also got one of these:

Mini keyboard

It's running RaspBMC and working well with the gyration media center remote too. It's one hell of a piece of kit.

I used it to replace a WDTV Live Player (which is a great box in it self but it stutters playing off my NAS box).

Considering the cost difference is negligible the Pi is a lot better in more regards than the WDTV box. The plus WD has is the SPDIF out and that's only as I have an old AMP with no HDMI inputs. So £50 for the Pi vs £64 for the WD. No brainer.

since the pi 2 is out (or at least, due out soon [and if its already out, someone please kill me for being so behind the times]), what the hell can i do with it?

I'm using mine as an HTPC running XBMC/Kodi.

You could always stick on FUSE (ZX Spectrum emulator) and see if that runs ok. Or UAE or MAME to bring back the good old days.

It's simply just a small linux PC (Raspian) but you can connect stuff to the GPIO strip and program if you're so inclined.

I think they are ace for the money if you like to play with stuff.

May get one to control my telescope remotely...

Ah, there's an idea. Sounds like a nice project. Are there programs/methods already around the net?

Yeah I think some bods have written some software already. Havent' got much further into investigating it yet though.

It'd be nice to have something like that to do with mine but the only thing I can do at the moment is use it as an HTPC. A friend said it's not to bad as a game console ala 1980's but give it something intense like street fighter 2 on the mega drive and it falls over.