Kodi’s custom enclosure costs a mere $20 here in the States, and it also supports the Raspberry Pi 2 and the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+ board. “It was built with the tinkerer in mind and capable of new advanced applications, but always with the perfect fallback of being the tiny living-room Kodi media center that could.” “Since the first Raspberry Pi was announced in 2012, it was inextricably linked with XBMC/Kodi,” writes Nathan Betzen from the Kodi team. The first generation of Raspberry Pi boards went live in February 2012, and since then we’ve seen a number of amazing uses, from replicating the Pip-Boy from the Fallout games to creating a working mobile phone, and on to serving as a built-in car computer. But they’re also relatively wide open for basically any application, providing 40 GPIO pins, a camera interface, and a display interface to expand the board’s basic functionality. The big deal with the credit-card-sized Raspberry Pi boards is that they can serve as a powerful media center on the cheap. While we’ve seen Quake III Arena running at a Full HD resolution to give you some idea of its graphical prowess, the Raspberry Pi Foundation says the co-processor is capable of one gigapixel per second, 1.5 gigatexels per second, or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and a DMA infrastructure. The board packs Broadcom’s dual-core VideoCore IV multimedia co-processor that’s compatible with OpenGL ES 2.0, and can handle 1080p video output at 30Hz and H.264 high-profile decoding. That said, don’t expect the Raspberry Pi 3 to run the new Doom installment. The first Roku-made televisions are now available at Best Buy I used two of the year’s oddest tech gadgets so you don’t have to
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