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Raspberry Pi enthusiasts that are interested in creating a home multimedia centre, may be interested in a new tutorial that has been published this week over on the Seeed Studio website. The new Pi multimedia centre project utilises one of the new Raspberry Pi 2 single board mini PC systems which is currently the most powerful being created by the Raspberry Pi foundation at the current time. Seeed explain more about the project and what software they have used to create the DIY Raspberry Pi home multimedia centre : In this project, I'll install OpenELEC on Rpi2, and make the Raspberry Pi2 as the Home Multimedia Center. OpenELEC is an embedded operating system built around Kodi, the open source entertainment media hub. Home Theatre PCs are known to be hard to install and configure, and it can take a massive amount of time to keep them running. OpenELEC, on the other hand, is designed to be as lightweight as possible in terms of size and complexity, meaning your HTPC becomes no...

This is a 5V to 12V DC-DC step-up (boost) converter circuitry that is especially ideal for the USB powered applications. First of all a USB port has two current supply modes. Before detecting the connected device, it supplies maximum 100mA to the load. After recognizing the device, it increases the output current up to 500mA. In this circuit, controller (LT1618) also provides two input current modes. 100mA and 500mA input modes can be selected by the user. Output currents are limited due to the increased potential difference at the output. When the demand of the load increases, output voltage will start to decrease. For example, if the circuit operates in the 100 mA input mode, when the load is 35 mA, the output voltage will be kept at 12V. But if the load increases to 50 mA, output voltage will reduce to 8V to maintain the constant 100 mA input current.

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