A pi will definitely be my next investment. Unfortunately even such tiny amount of money is a bit too much for me right now. Maybe I'll buy one with steem. :)
I want to make very a little simple home theater for my dad who loves to watch old movies. Maybe voice controlled... hopefully. :P Or something steem related of course. We'll see... :)
Oh and maybe you can make it read the comments too. Can't be that hard... first google result seems to be very promising.
At this moment i play with"Festival" to read out text works very good and simple
https://steemit.com/steemdev/@techtek/steempi-is-talking-a-few-possible-solutions-for-blinking-the-led-on-updates-help-needed-curl-steemsql-bash-script-php
You could also look into the 5$ pi zero, my next test will be on a zero as well. https://www.adafruit.com/product/2885
But it wont be so good for movies i guess.
have my upvote
Yes I will go for a Zero. I don't need so much performance. The videos don't have to be in hd quality. But with all components I will need $40-50 approximately and I need someone with a soldering iron. :D
And i just see that the pi 2 didn't drop in price still around 40,-
Zero W also a nice option but seems out of stock (of course).
If i remember correct zero can play most of the 700 mb divx files without a problem, navigating through the interface was a bit slow.
Seems to be sufficient for my purposes.
It's a lot of fun and many different project to play around with, i think you wont regret, go for it