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Raspberry Pi 2 Model B on sale now. Lots more for the same $35

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Deozaan:
A little home render farm would be fantastic for 3D design and such ([...] especially if I made the farm portable!)
-Stephen66515 (February 04, 2015, 11:58 AM)
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Or your own little render farm in the cloud. (c:

40hz:
I don't actually know what I would use it for tbh.  A little home render farm would be fantastic for 3D design and such (Both me and my Father-in-law both dabble in it so it would be useful for both of us, especially if I made the farm portable!)

 :D
-Stephen66515 (February 04, 2015, 11:58 AM)
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Blender has some very nice support for distributed processing built into it. And if you google "blender distributed proccessing" or "DIY render farm" you'll find dozens of how-to articles that will walk you through building and using one. Most don't use Raspberry Pis. But it's fairly easy to extrapolate and improvise.

Be interesting to see how much gain you'd see over a tricked out workstation with a high power i7 or Xeon instead. Or the more typical homebrew render farm which seems to favor $$$ Xeons and $$ server mobos.

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