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'It's a player you can actually love and hack and share experiences with, as you have a whole Raspberry Pi community behind you. It works well, we've removed a bunch of quirks and bling so it has some of that Jony Ives magic that you don't see in a lot of interfaces. 'We've then stripped it down to the essential stuff people actually want to do, so you start with a clear and simple media player.

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It's mature software with a massive community and it can be made to work for everybody,' says Beech.

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But the more advanced or adventurous can install different versions of XBMC, switch out the compute module or hard drive, or even run Debian Linux OS on it. The product ships with plenty of different skins and themes to choose from.

The key strength to Slice, though, is its openness to change, as both the Pi and XBMC are very malleable. 3 million plus is a heck of a market to ignore.' We know it works on the hardware, so we hope our backers will make them take notice and get Netflix on the Raspberry Pi. The software can be improved through it's life, and that includes getting Netflix on there. 'And XBMC goes from strength to strength. 'The Raspberry Pi has proved to be the killer platform for DIY media boxen,' says Beech. It all sits alongside a 1TB HDD in a solid aluminium case which sports a glowing strip of light, using colour changes and movement to signify what it's doing.īut what about Netflix and similar services? While YouTube is the only built-in app on launch, the team is hopeful that streaming services like Netflix make an appearance at some point in the future.

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And because it's fully compatible with all Raspberry Pi software, you can mod, hack and update to your heart's content. It has 4GB of flash storage, which is where the Linux-based XBMC OS runs. The Compute Module itself is tiny and looks just like a typical laptop SODIMM memory module, but it's actually a full-blown Raspberry Pi Model A computer that's been squeezed into this new form factor so product designers such as FiveNinjas can use it inside their own products. 'The software can be improved through its life, and that includes getting Netflix on there' The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is the small PCB on top of the CMIO expansion board Why Raspberry Pi? And because it uses a Raspberry Pi Compute Module as its 'brain', it uses very little power and needs no active cooling.

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Slice will then scan the new files you've added and automatically download extended info about them including album art, movie thumbnails, synopses and so forth. Plug it into a PC and it'll show up as a standard external HDD, enabling you to drag and drop your files onto it.

The product works pretty much as you'd expect it to. The first Apple TV was a much loved, and hacked, product, but nobody's given HDD players a decent try outside of the geekosphere.' 'Western Digital, among others, tried to turn MythTV boxes into something consumer but they don't have the love for the product. 'It's a throwback,' says Paul Beech, director of Pimoroni and one of the Five Ninjas in an interview with TechRadar. By pledging £109 or more (£159 for one with the 1TB drive included), you can bag yourself one of the first units when they ship in November. It's launching today on Kickstarter, with the team hoping to raise £90,000/$150,000 so it can put the final touches to the design.

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