Folks,<\/p>\n
Today we spent some time with the new Raspberry Pi 2 and the FUNcube Dongle Pro Plus.<\/p>\n
As many will be aware, the original Raspberry Pi had a problem with its USB host stack, for which I released a workaround here<\/a>: this simply reduced the dongle’s bandwidth so that the Raspberry Pi could keep up.<\/p>\n Well the good news <\/strong>is that the Raspberry Pi 2 so far does not seem to show the same limitation. I recorded an hour of full bandwidth this afternoon, and it plays back perfectly, which would not have happened with the original Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n Talking of the Pi 2 in general, this is a very significant update. Compiling code natively on the original Pi was hard work, it was tediously slow. Frequently, you’d cross-compile, which although is frequently done, it’s hard to set up and the environment needs continually tweaking and updating. On the Pi 2 on the other hand, it’s like night and day, it’s a piece of cake to compile your code natively. I was really enjoying running both a native screen and keyboard\/mouse combo together with a VNC X session simultaneously, it really is a joy to use.<\/p>\n Many thanks, Howard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Folks, Today we spent some time with the new Raspberry Pi 2 and the FUNcube Dongle Pro Plus. As many will be aware, the original Raspberry Pi had a problem with its USB host stack, for which I released a … Continue reading