Hacker News Reader

Comment by atmosx | Hacker News Reader

Hm, I've plenty of fun and more interesting projects than I can count with the prior model too.

I like the fact that processing speed has been boosted but that's all there is to it.

I'm really happy about the 4 USB ports too. It was a pain having to use a USB hub on my Model B to get keyboard+mouse+WiFi.

I run headless so don't run into that problem... it would be nice to get some more power so I could plug in a hard drive without having to use a USB hub, though. Tried it a few times without a hub and the drive keeps clicking - spinning down may be the right term? So I've held off on using it as a media center which is what I really want to do.

The power circuits were revised quite a bit in the B+ (and 2), and also between early spins of the Pi and later ones. You may have better luck with a later board revision - I have a Pi B from the very first batch and it can barely keep a backlit keyboard going, but never bothered returning it because I don't use its USB anyway. There's also a lot of flaky USB power supplies out there - make sure yours is solid.

The previous model already had 4 USB ports.

Any chance of a link to some of these. I have started volunteering at a coderdojo and we have plenty of RPi's I just need some inspiration for projects, or more accurately I want to inspire the kids and would like some examples we could work on while they think of their own.

Have you looked at Minecraft for Raspberry Pi ( http://pi.minecraft.net/ ) ? It can be scripted using Python. Great way to get kids hooked.

Yeah, I poked at that one just a little bit, but found it pretty limited and kinda buggy. Felt like it was fired off and forgotten. But, hey, maybe with Microsoft buying Minecraft and doing Win10 for the Pi, it will get a second look. (maybe. ha.)

Here are a few ideas:

* http://www.hackster.io/raspberry-pi

* http://hackaday.io/projects/tag/raspberry%20pi

* http://raspberry.io/projects/

One of my projects: https://unop.uk/dev/raspberry-pi-electricity-monitor/

http://www.dexterindustries.com/GoPiGo/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com