Re: Christmas Pi

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been playing with one, I originally planned to use it to drive a
screen in the hall to give calendar, weather and house status
information.  I have to say that the lack of a VGA output is a major
blocker for me - I've got a number of spare PC screens to use, but don't
want to invest in one with a HDMI plug'ole, and the picture from the
composite video output is absolute pants with text pretty much
unreadable  (although there may be some tweaks to make it better).

Its a good bit of kit if you can use it plugged in to the TV, or without
a screen at all, but for anything else that needs a display it ain't good.

Martin

On 16/12/2012 10:11, pjqx wrote:
> Hi Guys,
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> in advance of ennui over Xmas I thought I might take the plunge and
buy a Raspberry Pi to play with - I like the idea of hanging XBMC on the
back of a TV screen.  Taken a look on Ebay and can see that the Blue
connector ones (they seem to be the most recent) go for about £35 (the
seem cheaper in RS components but they have no stock).
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> Before i take the plunge is there anything I should know?  I'm almost
certainly not going to do anything more taxing than XBMC and the like - no
programming for instance.
>
> Seasons greetings etc.
>
> Tim.
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