Category: Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Round Two: PiMame

In the comments of my last Raspberry Pi post, reader Ben politely pointed out “you’re doing it wrong.” And I was. Along with a couple of other helpful suggestions, Ben also pointed me toward PiMame, which comes as a precompiled image — simply download, extract, boot, and play. Now that the raspberry Pi is out of the box and connected, I only had two goals: 01. Download/extract/configure PiMame 02. Play games. Would this one work better than my first go ’round with RetroPie? Read on! 01. Download/extract/configure PiMame I downloaded PiMame 0.7.8 from the following link: http://blog.sheasilverman.com/pimame-raspberry-pi-os-download/. I used Win32… (read more)

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A Slice of RetroPie

Last weekend I started my first Raspberry Pi project. After reading that several people have turned their Raspberry Pies into emulation machines, I searched Google and found RetroPie, a pre-built image for the Raspberry Pi containing a ton of pre-loaded emulators. At the start of the project I had three clear goals: 01. Power up the Raspberry Pi. 02. Install RetroPie 03. Play some games! How did things turn out? Read on! 01. Power up the Raspberry Pi. This project began with my Raspberry Pi still in the shipping packaging. Along with my Pi I ordered a red plastic case… (read more)

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A Slice of Raspberry Pi

I suspect the vast majority of my readers either (a) already know what a Raspberry Pi is or (b) don’t know and wouldn’t care. I’m writing this on the slim chance that a third group exists, a group of people who might be interested in the Raspberry Pi but haven’t looked into them yet. So maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones. The Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based computer that’s about the size of a credit card (you can tell how small it is in the picture above), which makes it perfect for “projects”. Because it’s ARM-based it runs… (read more)

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