Great deal on a raspberry pi 3 starter kit, I highly recommend this as the pi can be used for numerous things. I paid £10 more for this exact kit a couple of weeks ago.
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GuigsyUK
5 Aug 169#1
Saves about £6 over buying the bits separately... and it appears to all be good (official) stuff.
The case is nice (pop the top to plug in camera and get at the GPIOs), PSU should be solid and the SD card is pre-loaded with an operating system, so it should be plug'n'play.
I'm currently using a Pi 3 to create a home automation system with a 7" touch screen and a z-wave radio. A Pi 1 drives my 3d printer with OctoPrint. A Pi 2 runs a photo frame. I've got a Zero that controls a string of 100 LED colour change lights that gets used for parties and the Xmas tree... and another Zero that I was going to use to control an electric radiator, but I'm moving so I probably won't bother now. Too much Pi?
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GuigsyUK
5 Aug 169#1
Saves about £6 over buying the bits separately... and it appears to all be good (official) stuff.
The case is nice (pop the top to plug in camera and get at the GPIOs), PSU should be solid and the SD card is pre-loaded with an operating system, so it should be plug'n'play.
I'm currently using a Pi 3 to create a home automation system with a 7" touch screen and a z-wave radio. A Pi 1 drives my 3d printer with OctoPrint. A Pi 2 runs a photo frame. I've got a Zero that controls a string of 100 LED colour change lights that gets used for parties and the Xmas tree... and another Zero that I was going to use to control an electric radiator, but I'm moving so I probably won't bother now. Too much Pi?
dt_matthews to GuigsyUK
5 Aug 161#2
Never too much pi. They are simply great.
Mrchips09 to GuigsyUK
5 Aug 16#3
Yeah the pi is a great bit of kit! Using one as a network intrusion detection system, and they're cheap as chips!
ST30 to GuigsyUK
5 Aug 16#7
interesting about the home automation any links to read upon and links to the touch screen,zwave hardware?
nicmall to GuigsyUK
7 Aug 16#31
So you're the one who at all the pis.
damienthompson1991
5 Aug 16#4
bought this about 2 month ago same price. it's all official and great as it's really all plug in and go!
adeelmpk
5 Aug 16#5
Bought it last week, I can confirm all parts are official by raspberry and top quality.
azeDmon
5 Aug 16#6
can anyone recommend good projects that I can run using this kit...
I'm looking in to arduino robots, ai and robotics
thx
biggysilly to azeDmon
6 Aug 16#16
£59@ cpc I didn't post it as a deal as they only have two in stock
li0nhead
5 Aug 16#8
So what do you do with your PI? Just looking for ideas.
goodlad to li0nhead
6 Aug 16#21
Kodi runs well ,emulation station plays all retro games .theres lots of projects do a bit of reading there's plenty of guides out there.
jimunix to li0nhead
7 Aug 16#26
I run a blog and host many websites, setup motion detecting cameras, play games with Retropie, watch videos with Kodi.
darkteckno2 to li0nhead
12 Aug 16#39
Ever heard of Google?
a8ken
5 Aug 16#9
Looks like a good deal, heat added.
I was looking to turn one of these into a wee retro console using RetroPie. I've browsed various bundles on eBay costing around £80 which includes controllers etc but crucially memory card all set up with software and ROMS. Putting aside the issues surrounding gathering thousands of ROM files, does anyone have experience setting up such a thing from scratch? I've heard it can be a right pain and very time consuming.
Thanks in advance.
pothead13 to a8ken
6 Aug 161#13
I used mine to set up retropie and yes its very time consuming its ok for roms on nes snes master sysytem as you can download packs for them and most should work, its when you start going for MAME roms where there are 2000+ in a pack and your find most wont work your best adding MAME roms one at a time some realy fun games on MAME
1Old9Bean75 to a8ken
6 Aug 162#14
Had a quick spin with this on a pi 2 the other day, up and running in no time http://www.lakka.tv/
AdamBrunt to a8ken
6 Aug 16#18
There are people on eBay selling just the fully loaded SD card ( retroPie and all the ROMs ) for £30+. £80 for the whole bundle doesn't sound too bad to me. Got a link?
Pyrrhic to a8ken
7 Aug 16#30
I see someone else recommended Lakka - I've got no experience with that, but I can vouch for recalbox being genuinely hassle-free, plug and play stuff (if you have a supported controller at least. You may need to do a little setup for non ps3 / xbox 360 controllers).
Works great - very happy with it for nostalgic trips down SNES memory lane :smiley:
martingateshill
6 Aug 162#10
LiOnhead - I'm using an original P1 and a pi3 as IP security cameras for my home, the official Pi camera modules are excellent. I'm also setting up a Pi2 running Zone Minder to control camera recordings, motion detection etc. The possibilities are endless with these things. next up for me will be a couple of Zero's to play with :smiley: Being retired is fun!
omgpleasespamme
6 Aug 16#11
Surely any self respecting geek buying a pi would have things like a power supply and micro sd card lying around anyway?
Seems to me like £43 would buy a better specification smart phone, or tablet? Something more powerful but with more user friendly interfaces?
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The case is nice (pop the top to plug in camera and get at the GPIOs), PSU should be solid and the SD card is pre-loaded with an operating system, so it should be plug'n'play.
I'm currently using a Pi 3 to create a home automation system with a 7" touch screen and a z-wave radio. A Pi 1 drives my 3d printer with OctoPrint. A Pi 2 runs a photo frame. I've got a Zero that controls a string of 100 LED colour change lights that gets used for parties and the Xmas tree... and another Zero that I was going to use to control an electric radiator, but I'm moving so I probably won't bother now. Too much Pi?
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The case is nice (pop the top to plug in camera and get at the GPIOs), PSU should be solid and the SD card is pre-loaded with an operating system, so it should be plug'n'play.
I'm currently using a Pi 3 to create a home automation system with a 7" touch screen and a z-wave radio. A Pi 1 drives my 3d printer with OctoPrint. A Pi 2 runs a photo frame. I've got a Zero that controls a string of 100 LED colour change lights that gets used for parties and the Xmas tree... and another Zero that I was going to use to control an electric radiator, but I'm moving so I probably won't bother now. Too much Pi?
I'm looking in to arduino robots, ai and robotics
thx
£59@ cpc I didn't post it as a deal as they only have two in stock
I was looking to turn one of these into a wee retro console using RetroPie. I've browsed various bundles on eBay costing around £80 which includes controllers etc but crucially memory card all set up with software and ROMS. Putting aside the issues surrounding gathering thousands of ROM files, does anyone have experience setting up such a thing from scratch? I've heard it can be a right pain and very time consuming.
Thanks in advance.
Works great - very happy with it for nostalgic trips down SNES memory lane :smiley:
Seems to me like £43 would buy a better specification smart phone, or tablet? Something more powerful but with more user friendly interfaces?