toptenmaterial Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Has anyone done any projects with the little Rasberry Pi? Looks like it could make a good little emulation box, among other things. Comment and discuss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 My teenager got one and hooked it up as a little in house server. We also hooked up an external USB hard drive to it. So we can store files via our home network. We tried it emulators for awhile, mostly genesis and SNES and NES. And PS1 too I think it's like Xbox level of power for emulation. Maybe a little underpowered. Could not get Atari 5200 emulation working for some reason. That's all I am aware of concerning the R.PI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Cool. Did you and your daughter work on it together? I'm 34 but I still collaborate with my old man on stuff. I told him about it and he likened it to those old 15-in-1 science experiments you used to be able to get at radio shack, or those old AM crystal radio kits. I'm thinking about picking one up for him for Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 No its a son and it was all his idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Ultimate Intellivision Flashback. A rPi with Pc to Inty controller with emulator gives HDMI output. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/231433-the-ultimate-intellivision-flashback/?p=3104654 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almost Rice Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I just ordered 3 A+. I know I will use one to build a bluetooth/wifi gate opener. The other one I will build into a arcade joystick panel to play some old school game on games on mame. I got the 3rd because it made the order free shipping. I will figure something out for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegadot Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I have a B from launch. It's been a web server, ftp server, vpn, emulator box, whatever. Great little hobby things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 (edited) I currently own 3 RPi model Bs right now. I use all of them as compact XBMC media center units. The one in the living room I also dual boot sometimes to Linux and use it as a web browser. I use a small, cheap, but effective wireless keyboard/pad for the Linux usage and a Windows MCE compatible remote for media center use. All the media is served out centrally from a VM running on VMWare ESXi. That VM is also my MythTV server (gives me centralized DVR access from all clients), which utilize some Silicon Dust HD HomeRun network connected ATSC tuners. Life is just fine after "cutting the cord" or unhooking the dish. Oh yeah, I did put up regular old UHF/VHF/FM antenna on the house too to get awesome crystal clear digital broadcast signals. The digital broadcasts make use of the exact same antenna technology as the old analog signals (becuase the freqency bands are are the same). Don't let anyone tell you that special "digital" antennas are needed. For me, locals plus Netflix is plenty good. It's kind of like the old Bruce Springstine lyrics with cable and satellite... "...57 channels and nothing on." Except now it's more like 357 channels and not much on. There are definately some lessons to be learned by doing this kind of project, and I have learned them (at least the lessons required to make this all work in my configuration). So, feel free to use me as a resource if I can help any of you. I say the paid TV providers can stick it in their greedy... LOL Edited December 20, 2014 by fujidude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeun Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I have one running as a headless file server. Just the Pi, and an external USB HD. Linux, SMB and Appletalk file sharing, and two Transmission Bittorrent daemons. The whole thing consumes about 5 watts. The Pi seemed a bit slow as an all-around emulation platform. Some console emus ran well, but others were just couldn't do 100% speed. I've ordered an Odroid C1 (same price, same form factor, but with a 1.5GHz quad core ARM) and think it might make a better emulation station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 You guys are awesome. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurdFurgeson82 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I have one model b running as a emulation box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted December 24, 2014 Author Share Posted December 24, 2014 I have one model b running as a emulation box What are you running and how well does it run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurdFurgeson82 Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 (edited) What are you running and how well does it run? Retropie setup I have these systems running good on it 2600,nes,snes,psx,tg16,gb,gbc,gba,sms,gen,gg,lynx I think thats all of them Edited December 24, 2014 by TurdFurgeson82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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