{"id":11899,"date":"2015-02-02T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11899"},"modified":"2015-02-03T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T09:41:11","slug":"raspberry-pi-2-see-it-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11899","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi 2 &#8211; see it in action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100437_3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11886\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100437_3.jpg?resize=560%2C605&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"100437_3\" width=\"560\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100437_3.jpg?w=711&amp;ssl=1 711w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100437_3.jpg?resize=278%2C300&amp;ssl=1 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world is all a-twitter (and, indeed, many people have Tweeted) about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11881\" target=\"_blank\">the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2 today<\/a>. I was lucky enough to get hold of a Pi 2 a few weeks ago to put it through its paces. It&#8217;s a very impressive piece of kit and I shot some video of it in action. In the video below you can see the Pi booting (incredibly fast), the X desktop start up and then some apps being loaded. Pardon the shaky cam &#8211; I was using my mobile phone!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raspberry Pi 2 - in action\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrY9plK42ss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is all a-twitter (and, indeed, many people have Tweeted) about the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2 today. 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