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Ceratonia Feb 2016 10:33pm, 25 Feb 2016 3,153 posts	0 Ceratonia Was talking to one of the micro:bit board designers today (social chit-chat, not about the board). Haven't followed too closely, but I think the reason it is so delayed is all down to the battery - they had to switch out the original watch battery for some reason.
shanksi Feb 2016 10:36pm, 25 Feb 2016 1,355 posts	0 shanksi Pi Zero seems to be out of stock everywhere at the moment We currently have two pis - one that gets swapped around between general mucking about and running old games using retro pi, and another running kodi media centre. I want another one and a decent DAC HAT to set up a music player.
fetcheveryone Feb 2016 10:38pm, 25 Feb 2016 17,046 posts	0 fetcheveryone I've emailed Energenie to ask them about their GPIO add-on. Some of the comments on their Amazon page suggest that even though it's only 13x2 pins, it might not leave me with enough spare useful pins to control my temperature sensor. But some of the comments on there were a bit daft, so I am still hopeful.
mattglen_ Feb 2016 10:42pm, 25 Feb 2016 First-time poster!!	0 mattglen_ I've had a Pi for a couple of years now and everything needed to run it, but I've never done more than play around on it using software on the pre-installed SD Card. I really want to get back in to it, so does any one have any suggestions for cool projects I could do?
fetcheveryone Feb 2016 10:46pm, 25 Feb 2016 17,047 posts	0 fetcheveryone Here's a bunch of ideas: itpro.co.uk
EvilPixie Feb 2016 11:53pm, 25 Feb 2016 11,417 posts	0 EvilPixie With the micro bit the issue was apparently that cell batteries are a h&s issue
Chrisull Feb 2016 10:54am, 26 Feb 2016 8,515 posts	0 Chrisull Another double Pi owner here, one allows me to play Itunes on my stereo speakers via wi-fi (and a tweaked version of volumio), the other is currently configured to do motion camera capture, but isn't doing anything at the mo.
lunaman Feb 2016 11:18am, 26 Feb 2016 2,946 posts	0 lunaman Hello hello. Another owner coming out of a pretty dusty closet. Maybe this'll encourage me to get back to it - I got as far as this flic.kr with a Pi B2 which was really exciting! I was trying to find a way to use it in an exhibition to distribute audio through lots of mini speakers. Got a bit sidetracked because of the powering issue for the speakers in the venue and ended up using MP3 players, and it's now stuck in a box. Matt, I was using the Programming Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python book, and I'm completely electrically clueless.
davelord Feb 2016 12:47pm, 26 Feb 2016 277 posts	0 davelord I use them as networked video players for information boards in factory loading videos exported from powerpoint presentation via FTP, and i also had a go at temperature monitoring to manage heating, but ended up using heating control data (Salus) and getting the Pi feeding that info to thingspeak to log info and graph run times v. temperature, I need to revisit the pi really
Nightjar Feb 2016 7:44pm, 26 Feb 2016 4,164 posts	0 Nightjar Another Pi newbie here. Got the kit fro RS components. Web site has some resources worth looking through I think. Not managed to do anything with it yet because I couldn't find an SD card adapter anywhere.