@goldilocks: congrats on hitting 25k :)

@Jacobm001 Congrats on running that test on a B in 38 secs. I tried it on a B+ @ 900 Mhz, 50 seconds (and a B w/ stock settings, 63 seconds).

And on my desktop, 4.5 seconds...

@goldilocks I thought it was a bit weird myself, but like I said... Pretty sure that test is crap :P

I think my heatsink kept it from throttling.

I do not think pis get anywhere near throttle temp unless you overclock them quite a bit.

@goldilocks I thought they had a tendency to spike their temps if you maxed out a core.

My load is so rarely over .4 that I don't really know. The only reason it has a heatsink is because it came with the case.

Yeah, then I got nothing.

Yup looks like 43.3 C to 47.1 C

I wonder what my i7 would do at home...

I have a few of those. I thought they would make decent jewelry ;) Actually I tried the big one (did you get a littler one for the SMSC controller too?) as a heat sink on an ATI GPU card that I took the absurdly loud fan off. Didn't make much difference to that, lol. Eventually I managed to fit an old northbridge sink on, it still runs at 60 C.

The RPi heatsink? Yeah, the case I bought came with one for the SOC and one really small one for the SMSC. Surprisingly good quality.

I would never have bought them on their own, but it was a decently priced case for what I wanted, and since they came with it... I figured why not.

Canakit kits with cases come with them. The case is very plain but pretty well designed in the sense that it is easy to open, and easy to access everything while closed.

I got one of these: amazon.com/Eleduino-Raspberry-Sliver-Enclosure-Heatsink/dp/…

I got one of these inside the desktop:

Oh, I've seen those before.

I've heard they work really well.

Took the i5 idle temp from about 45 C to 35 C.

I was hoping it would help out it with the ATI card, which is directly underneath it. I think it does a bit. And I was curious and willing to gamble $20.

Also I have this zany silverstone fan in the back with a physical pot control mounted in one of the 3.5" bays. Sounds like a small aircraft if I crank it up, lol.

My 5 year old nephew believed it is for "turning the computer on full blast".

lol

Actually I think that blue deep cool thing would look great on a pi case. The plate on the bottom is almost the same size.

I think it is 5V.

One of my friends has a 5 year old gaming laptop that has an overheating problem. The fans are set to 100% as soon as the thing starts or it'll overheat and shutdown. The thing sounds like it could lift off the table and fly out the window.

You have to take it apart and clean the vents. I've saved a couple of toshibas that way that eventually would start off 100%, then shutdown no matter what withing minutes.

Can't.

The thing is literally glued together from the factor. I cleaned as many parts of it as I could, but we can't get to the majority of it without tearing apart the body.

Hmmm. My latest one (~4 years old) is going that way I think. Gets too hot too easy. I hope that is not the situation there...

Yeah, it was a rude surprise. Apparently, if there's a hardware issue, the brand in question just replaces this particular model if it's under the 1 year warranty.

Pretty sure the charge time on my pebble is <75% what it was when I bought it a year and half ago. Partially to replace this Garmin GPS watch someone gave me, which was a total power hog (3-4 hours max with the GPS on), and the battery wore completely out, and replacing it involved a $50-100 mail order from Germany and some pretty fine soldering. So I binned it.

Probably would have been cheaper to have @Ghanima send it to you :P

I've been really happy with mine. I wish the round had better battery life, but it honestly looks good enough that most people don't realize it's a smartwatch until a notification changes the screen.

@Jacobm001 Google cardboard glasses are on sale at Amazon here today, maybe we could trade ;) I am sure Ghanima would appreciate the lenses.

Honestly, I think the smart alarm feature is my favorite thing about it though. Does the original pebble have it?

I like the pebble more than I thought I would even though I've barely used it for GPS coupling. On those rare occasions when I make it out of the cave I get to glance at messages on my wrist. Actually not bad for around the cave either.

@Jacobm001 What is the smart alarm?

@goldilocks My watch has an alarm function where the watch will wake you by vibrating. The smart alarm feature allows it to wake you up early (max of 30 minutes) depending on your sleep pattern. The idea is that it'll wake you when you're sleeping the lightest.

All mine does is vibrate, so WRT to notifications and alarms the options are one quick vibrate, one long vibrate, or three quick vibrates. I noticed at first the quick vibrate was fine (I'll use it for short counts while cooking sometimes), then I got too good at unconsciously ignoring it and had to use the triple. There's no heartrate monitor or anything so I am guessing "smart alarm" is out.

Mine doesn't have a heartbeat either. It's totally dependant on the accelerometer.

Although I think it's something they tied into the PebbleHealth application.

Ah. Hmm, well that must be there because it's how the llght flicks on. Can yours make noise beyond vibrating? I like being able to find my phone with my watch, but often being able to find my watch with my phone would be good, lol.

No, which is weird. $5 watches can usually make an annoying chirping sound. Seems like the pebble should be able to do something similar.

Might have been a design choice to force the user to consider vibration. I'd never have bothered with it otherwise, but except for that frenzied cooking thing it works well.

Possibly. Or space I suppose.

They little chipper things aren't particularly small.

@Jacobm001 Have you looked at the pebble API yet?

@goldilocks Yeah, I actually setup a basic stack exchange application, though I haven't had a chance to do much with it yet.

Once I graduate in a couple weeks I should have a reasonable amount of free time.

@goldilocks as our senior expert on the topic meta.raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/802/…

author of the book "How is this question too broad? (Volumes 1-3)"

@Ghanima: if such answers already exist, downvote it and mark it as a duplicate :P

Nothing better to do?

@Ghanima: they seem to be digging up a lot of old questions.

@Ghanima I'm on it >_>

@Jacobm001 we seem to work quite well though

@goldilocks I'd guessed so