So I am very new to this forum and if I am honest I do not know a lot about the subject that I am creating this new topic about but I thought it could be of interest.
So as none of you know, my job is a Storytelling and Creative Narative 3D Designer and I have currently been researching new ways of creating interactives and running media servers for small scale projects and exhibitions.
If you dont know in the industry the servers for things like this are MASSIVE. So what I have been looking into is a way in which I could scale this down and then I stumdbled upon this project..
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LoginAs I was looking into this and the prospect of using it as a wireless 'The Cloud' Style server it hit me...
With it been the same size of a credit card this would be such a good use for the christmas light displays in many ways. Using it on a wireless style so you can link many channels around your home together without the need to run cable and be able to do so in a small space.
And to create Stand Alone shows, very much like the light-o-rama style. Except very in expensive, and the ability to run what ever you wanted from it and even the ablity to plug a monitor or screen into it.
From what I believe these systems come in 256mb of Ram, which is not a lot I know but more than enough to run a light show with the correct hardware, they are able to run 1080HD Films perfectly so should be fine.
I hope this can be of help to some of you which have longed for a system that could be adaptable like this.
Taken from their website:
What’s a Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
