Simon Edmondson Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31088908 I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination but, might this be of interest to the more tech savvy amongst us ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 3, 2015 Hash Fellow Share Posted February 3, 2015 Did anyone ever get anything running on the last pi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Edmondson Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 Did anyone ever get anything running on the last pi? Robert A friend who lives in Oregon sent me this yesterday "Very good news. It's great that the developers are improving the product. If they didn't, it would fall into disuse rather rapidly. Mine has been running continuously for 101 days babysitting the RFID lock on my shop door. One of the best things about the Pi is the large, helpful user community. The news about Microsoft is surprising - maybe they are worried about losing the next generation to Linux." My elder brother and my brother in law are both using them for their own projects as well. Its all over my head, regards simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*A:M User* Roger Posted February 4, 2015 *A:M User* Share Posted February 4, 2015 I have 2 myself and keep meaning to set up some sort of home security system but haven't managed to hack the protocols that the (now defunct) security system I bought several years ago uses. They used to charge $10 a month or something to provide a monitoring service that would send you a text message if a door was opened or motion was detected. That's more or less a yes/no condition so it seems like it would be a fairly simple thing to monitor a voltage drop or wireless signal and then have a script run that would send an SMS to your mobile device. In theory I have an idea of how to do it, in practice, not so much. You might be able to run AM v5 on an emulated copy of Win 95, say in Virtual Box. I'm not sure how well that would work, though. They really are nifty little things but definitely require you to have some extra bits laying around (wall warts to power them, SD cards for the OS, etc etc). The Raspberry Pi 2 looks really promising with 4 cores and a full 1 GB of RAM. Who ever thought you'd be able to pick up that much computing power for less than $50? Strange times we live in. Shame nothing else goes down in cost that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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