“The Raspbery Pi project is a darling little exercise in ingenuity,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“It looks like a USB thumb drive, but instead of 2GB of flash, it’s a fully functional computer running Debian Linux, featuring a 700 MHz ARM 11 processor, 128 MB of RAM, a USB port, and an Ethernet port… all for just $35,” Brownlee reports.
“The only problem is that while the Raspberry Pi is in production, there’s still no ship date, so if you’re looking to graft AirPlay onto your existing set, you’ll have to wait a little bit longer,” Brownlee reports.
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Er,….. I am guessing that you need a digital tv with a usb input???
So “any” tv is not quite right. Is this using AirPlay?? or a Windows version of something??
raspberry pi is shipping with Linux.
airplay does not ship with it. you’ll need to get nerdy and add airplay to raspberry pis Linux software yourself.
The Raspberry Pi has HDMI.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
and IIRC, it has ye olde co-axial RCA male aerial output, for really old TVs
Debian GNU/Unix is not Windows.
Your name is insulting to Jews and makes you look like an idiot.
Pot, meet Kettle…
I just love your website.
They have already released a demo video of it running AirPlay. Just so you all know. It doesn’t so Video Mirroring but it does AirPlay Video/Audio
There’s a few short cuts in this article. It isn’t a thumb drive for example, but a roughly credit card sized uncased circuit board. And using it for AirPlay is a bit of a waste, the real aim is to teach our children to become hackers (in the old “good” sense of the word)
Saw an early development unit last year and it was USB stick sized with usb port on one end and I think HDMI on the other.
Am excited by the pi and anything Python….it even does BBC Basic and C. I still laugh at all the Monty Python references and syntax jokes. Fou and Bar // Spam and Eggs….anyone?
That dude looks like Steve Jobs who ate steak instead of bean curd.
By the time you add a case, a power supply, cables and distribution costs and add a modest profit, this kluge will cost more than the Apple TV. All you gain is Airplay so you may as well just plug a cable into your TV from your computer for a few bucks.
BTW: The Daliesque nightmare video played in the demo is:
cows & cows & cows
Sounds fun – wheres the pudding?
And for $65 more dollars -$99 bucks – you can get an apple tv today and also have AirPlay
This is not really for someone wanting a cheaper ATV. its a system for hardware hackers and ones who like to tinker. MDN would probably be lost configuring it and I’m surprised they ran the story