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Needs mounting inside an old sony walkman case imo, would be so cool
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Lad at work ordered one from RS components using my "invitation to buy", as I already have mine from Farnell... a day later, he got his own "invite" from RS, so ordered another.. less than 2 weeks later, 3 turned up! They cocked the 2nd order and sent it out twice

He thinks they'll notice, but said he'll just pay them for the 3rd as he wants to keep it.
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RS took money out my grandad's account early this week. See how long it takes to arrive.
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Yey



Now what
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I've just received the despatch notification from ParcelForce
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Dont really get what these are about. Trying to read up on XBMC but still no clearer.

What can you do on it that is usefull? Can you get a jailbroke version of apple tv or something on it? That would be usefull!
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
Dont really get what these are about. Trying to read up on XBMC but still no clearer.

What can you do on it that is usefull? Can you get a jailbroke version of apple tv or something on it? That would be usefull!


It's a 'computer' on embedded hardware (ARM processor) - essentially you can run a few versions/distro's of Linux and a few other ARM based OS's.

XMBC is just a media centre and a 'nice' frontend to play your stored/streamed media. There's a windows and a LiveCD (burn the downloaded image to CD/DVD and you test it straight off that) version of XMBC, which i'd use for testing before stumping up (and having to wait 4+ weeks for) on a RPi.
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Use it to learn how to program stuff. Make something cool using the GPIO. Loads of possibilities
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
Dont really get what these are about. Trying to read up on XBMC but still no clearer.

What can you do on it that is usefull? Can you get a jailbroke version of apple tv or something on it? That would be usefull!


Its just a convieniently sized computer with low power drain.. You can use it for media stuff if you like (although it isnt brilliant) but its main purpose is for creating custom hardware for example you could write a script to read some inputs from a thermistor and a VR and use it to control your boiler.
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It's main purpose is for education.

It can be used for various control tasks though.
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Where the FUCK is mine
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Mines taken nearly a month mr Pow.. dont dispair
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I'm going to make a Python web server that lets you turn an LED on and off. Mega.
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LOL
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Just got parcelforce email for my RS one.
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Came this morning.
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Snap
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Seems to work even though diskutil said that it failed when writing the image to the SD card. Stupid Macs.
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Boot up into the Gui then.. chop chop
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Tell you what.. Just about everything struggles on the GUI
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The second photo is the GUI The screen res isn't quite setup correctly so the taskbar isn't at the bottom of the screen.

[Edited on 19-06-2012 by ed]
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Ahh I see it now.. pic didnt show before?
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[offtopic] What keyboard is that Ed? [/offtopic]
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Its a mac wanna be
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It's a filthy old Vaio one with sticky keys.

[Edited on 19-06-2012 by ed]

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