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Use a Volumio,Hifiberry Dac,Dayton DTA-120 and a Andrew Steven's Bookshelf speakers-Pioneer SP-BS22-LR.
And stream 7/24 with ABC Lounge.

Hi all, been searching about raspberry pi around since end of last year and found this forum. I have a plan to build a raspberry pi for my son to learn about basic programming and practice scratch what he learned from school at home. On top of that, I gave him this as basic normal pc usage like watching youtube, web browsing, or gaming like minecraft etc.

Need expert's advice here how can I start up and gradually improve his skill on programming. Thanks.

I think you should be exploring here; https://www.element14.com/community/welcome

Check these free materials from raspberrypi.org, a good reference to start with.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/

"Learn to code from scratch"
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This post has been edited by wsian: Mar 30 2017, 05:31 PM

You can start by doing projects that dealing with electronics, sensors etc. Those projects can be playful, fun and interactive for kids. Your son can explore more on physical computing and not only software programming with Raspberry Pi.

Just to add to the replies above, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has excellent resources on teaching and learning with Raspberry Pi. There are many fun projects as well with easy to follow instructions.
Check it out here: http://rpf.io/learn

Thanks for the info.

hi guys..
i just bought this HDD enclosure (link) & hook it up to my RPi3 via USB cable..

problem is when transferring files between HDD inside the enclosure (eg: from HDD in bay1 to HDD in bay2), the speed is really slow (~ 10MB/s).
is the RPi3 the bottleneck here?

This post has been edited by Reeson: May 10 2017, 04:32 PM

RPi most likely recognized this usb device as usb-storage instead of uas (USB Attached SCSI), due to lack of driver support as RPi only has usb 2.0. You can test out the same condition by connecting to windows 8/10 to see any different.

This post has been edited by wsian: May 11 2017, 04:23 PM

now cytron selling RM100

Yes. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/h...i/usb/README.md
That is normal to have that. The USB ports are seperated from internal USB hub (Microchip USB+Ethernet chip), so all of them are shared on 480Mbps bus. It also could due to insufficient power output from the Pi. The proper way is to have a powered USB hub connect to both Pi and external HDD.

may i know what is the item that sold for 100 ringggit .

thanks

the enclosure has its own power supply, not drawing power from the RPi USB port

Pi zero kit

link?
found this but rm190..lol
https://www.cytron.com.my/c-442-raspberry/c...-raspberry-pi-3

This post has been edited by air_pull91: May 11 2017, 10:11 PM

Great, was wondering how the HDD is powered up with the small current from Pi.

thats the pi 3. i said pi zero.

so what do you think causing the slow speed?

RPi is only supposed to be telling HDDs to transfer file to each other, the data doesnt actually goes into RPi right?

I do think Pi needs to buffer the data, so that could be the bottleneck

yeah that makes sense.
wonder if there's a way to speed up the transfer..

Hi guys. I am looking for the pi zero but it seems all sellers in Malaysia has no stock. You guys know of any other sellers in Malaysia or overseas that have it for sell?