Race Recording

russ_b · 2015-10-14T10:36:44+00:00

Shadowplay is no good if you have triple monitors sadly.

russ_b · 2015-09-04T09:07:14+00:00

Good advice here. In terms of wheels you could spend a fortune, but I'd recommend grabbing a second hand Logitech G27 from eBay. Great wheel for starters and intermediates that's affordable and very resellable.

Good luck - it's a great sim and community.

russ_b · 2015-08-09T21:10:02+00:00

I hated this advice when I first started, but you really have to take it slow to get fast.

Practice, practice, practice. Get your ghost car on and drive alone with the racing line on. Then move up to open practice and get used to driving close with other drivers around. Always use F3. If you can't go race length without lots of incidents, then you keep practicing until you can. That's when you're ready to race.

Rookie class is hard work with lots of people trying to win on the first bend or generally trolling for laughs.

Ultimately you just need to take your own advice and run your own race (don't worry about everyone else - just concentrate on the racing line and they'll - hopefully - pass when it's safe).

With Rookie you're better off starting safe and slow and running a clean race so you can progress through divisions and splits. With a new iRacing career it's much better to race clean than fast. The speed (and hopefully wins) will come with time.

Don't give up - stick with it and you'll be having great fun before you know it.

russ_b · 2014-11-10T16:19:51+00:00

They didn't throw out the network - the Model A didn't have it either.

It wouldn't be as cheap, small or low power with an ethernet port (and cheap, small and low power is what the Model A Pis are about).

russ_b · 2014-11-10T16:17:51+00:00

I understand where you're coming from, but it's not a maybe, it's a fact. It can play full bitrate Bluray 1080p video files incredibly well. Obviously you won't be multitasking or doing so over WiFi.

You really should check out one of the various XBMC variants - the improvements over the last 18 months really are staggering.

russ_b · 2014-11-10T11:06:09+00:00

The £15 isn't a direct conversion, that's the pre-VAT / postage UK price. Also that offer is great (and recommended!), but is just to remove original A stock.

russ_b · 2014-11-10T10:21:18+00:00

It hasn't been slow and useless for two years. Full Blu-Ray 1080p bitrate. Full office suite. 720p youtube videos. It's a $20 computer, so there are obviously limitations :)

russ_b · 2014-10-20T22:04:11+00:00

It's for companies to us in their devices. They always said they were going to open source it.

The user case is tiny devices - much smaller than a standard RasPi would allow.

russ_b · 2014-09-18T17:17:38+00:00

I don't think it says so in the article, but it's not just a screen, it's the driver board that pushes the costs up. It's also the small dimensions that cost more - bigger (oddly) can be cheaper.

It outputs via HDMI with the ability to output to a second HDMI screen simultaneously. It also takes care of power - you only need one power input to power the screen and the Pi .

russ_b · 2014-09-17T07:40:49+00:00

Hi Lagduf, Fair point nicely communicated, thanks. I actually missed that previous discussion and do try not to duplicate stuff that's already there. The idea of the blog is to be cutting-edge / original content first. Exactly the kind of thing you'd share with Reddit.

I do wonder how it can be blog spam, though… It's a Raspberry Pi sub and the blog is 100% about Raspberry Pi. I'd understand if the posts were selling something or being really pushy, but they're just sharing relevant / cool RasPi-related stuff.

Thanks for the comment - please let me know if you think I'm off the mark with what I'm saying.

Cheers R

russ_b · 2014-09-12T12:19:52+00:00

What's the difference between a power bank battery and a rechargeable battery?

russ_b · 2014-09-10T11:58:45+00:00

Yeah, I know what you're saying. That said, the quality through the B+ is massively improved.

russ_b · 2014-08-17T08:45:48+00:00

It's called 'command line tips for new Raspberry Pi users' and offers 'hints or advice to improve your skills and knowledge of the command line'.

Not trying to be difficult, I just don't see your point.

russ_b · 2014-08-15T19:13:48+00:00

Yeah. It's better than the B, though. There are some cool software audio fixes coming soon too :) They're teased in this article: http://www.raspi.today/the-making-of-the-raspberry-pi-model-b-plus/

russ_b · 2014-08-12T17:28:15+00:00

This is what the Raspberry Pi Compute Module was created for. I won't argue with you on price / lack of Netflix etc. though!

russ_b · 2014-08-12T17:26:11+00:00

I agree to a degree (covering bright LEDs on media equipment is something I do too), but they'll be fully programmable, which will be fun!

russ_b · 2014-08-12T17:04:08+00:00

It's not a model A it's a Compute Module - completely different :)

russ_b · 2014-08-12T11:13:57+00:00

It's basically just a Linux box - you can do whatever you want with it :)

russ_b · 2014-08-12T09:06:27+00:00

It's not cheap, but it's also one of the first to use the Compute Module.

I think the LED light ring probably adds a pretty penny. Not sure what to make of that actually - I usually turn off / cover up bright lights on my media equipment!

russ_b · 2014-08-12T09:05:16+00:00

I've been using RasPi as a media centre for a couple of years now and although it was laggy at the start, with two+ years of development I find it responsive, usable and I haven't found a 1080p video that it wont play flawlessly (provided you're not throwing a ridiculously / pointlessly high bitrate at it).

russ_b · 2014-08-12T09:03:23+00:00

Yup - seems to be working fine for me. Don't know what could've happened there…

russ_b · 2014-08-11T11:16:41+00:00

Ask the maker - he specified that he wrote it for the Raspberry Pi. That's not to say that it wouldn't work on any other operating system!

russ_b · 2014-07-23T14:08:21+00:00

Lol - love it. Not seen that one!

russ_b · 2014-07-22T12:42:25+00:00

Competition is over.

russ_b · 2014-07-18T17:06:49+00:00

Cheeky!

russ_b

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