Raspberry Pi

The last few weeks have been manic! Children’s birthday, other kids parties, Easter holidays, Work and Home life just mental. But I can see the lights at the end of the tunnel.

My other half signed up for a month free trial of Netflix yesterday so the kids could watch some films. So I set up my PlayStation 3 up to the TV in the living room and gave it a whirl.

I don’t want my PlayStation in the living room so this made me think. I can watch Netflix on my iPad if I could watch my iPad on TV then we sorted. Enter the Raspberry Pi.

There quite lot of people using the raspberry pi to play HD quality video as Media player etc. An operating system design for called RaspBMC seems to be the answer as it has the functionality to accept airplay which I could stream too.

Other use I have for my Pi is a print server. As I don’t have my printer connected directly to my PC as my PC is for gaming and not a lot else, we get it out, connect it to the laptop, print and put it away again. But if I could connect it to the Pi permanently and leave it on, we could just send print to it directly without having to move it every time.

I’ll post an article I just read about linking it to Google’s CloudPrint. Be very useful if it works.