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Milestone: The Millionth UK-Made Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-a-milestone dept.

judgecorp writes "The millionth Raspberry Pi microcomputer has been made in the Foundation's Welsh factory. Total sales so far are 1.75 million, including the initial stock made in China." (Do you have one? If so, what are you using it for?)

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  1. I have two... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The first one is used as a media player with the openelec distribution (it's the best one, with a very active community), and the second one is used as a secondary computer, with the raspbian distribution and an amazon kindle used as a display :-)

  2. I have two and, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have done nothing useful with them. They are collecting dust

    1. Re:I have two and, by Tarlus · · Score: 4, Informative

      Are you running the entire OS off of an SD card? That might be your problem, as SD cards are relatively slow and not designed for frequent read/writes. Databases will rot those things out pretty quickly. Since the SD is required to boot the Pi, I set mine up to load the kernel from the SD and the rest of the OS from a USB disk. It is significantly faster and more reliable, and thus far it has proven to be a pretty solid and reasonably fast personal Linux server. (Though I do run it without X.)

      Here's a guide that describes the process.
      http://www.dingleberrypi.com/2013/05/install-and-run-raspbian-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

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  3. So many uses by nickovs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have four RPi boards. One monitors my UPSs, cleanly suspending my server when the power goes out and sending wake-on-LAN massages to it when the power comes back up so that the UPS only needs to drive my switch and AP, one has a camera board and does motion detection to spot people coming into my office, one is currently operating as a Bluetooth LE beacon for testing the new iOS iBeacon stuff and one is just for tinkering. Most of these have a few other services running on them too (two have I2C thermometers on them).

    I see a lot of negative comments about the Pi being underpowered. Perhaps if what you want to do is run FPS games or you are trying to run Big Data analytics then this is true but it's plenty powerful enough for a whole host of service tasks. It's not that many years ago that the Pi's level of power would have been considered a high-end desktop configuration. The purpose of the device is to give kids a low-cost entry into programming and it does just that. On top, at $25 for a Model A its fine to put in 'dangerous' places where something bad might happen to it (like outdoors, driving the sensors and servos for my Halloween decorations). No, I don't have my MongoDB server on a Raspberry Pi, but for many many projects they are just about perfect.

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  4. Two "A"s and a "B" by smurd · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use the A modles to run composite video loops in a bar, and the B as a ethernet->WiFi router (and video too).

  5. Re:Good work guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    MK808B

    No Ethernet (but 11n which might be more useful for some), runs Android (although apparently one can put Ubuntu on it), and most importantly: no GPIO. I'd say it falls in the "apples to oranges" category.