Saturday, May 26, 2012

Raspberry Pi: It arrived!

A mysterious package arrives...



Oh its beautiful! And tiny!

Flash is awesome on the iPhone 4S right?

When they said it was credit card sized they weren't lying!


All connected up:

All plugged in and ready to go.
The setup:

Sorry about the mess...

I'm a little afraid to plug my Razor peripherals into the Pi as they are high powered and backlit (my keyboard requires 2 USB ports but has a USB port on it) so I think i'll try it out tomorrow when I have some more time (as breaks in revision). It is a lovely little thing! 

I got the model B (so 2 USB ports and ethernet, with 256MB of RAM). Can't wait to get some real stuff done with it! I might try XBMC on it (for a media center) and some other distributions of Linux soon. I put Debian on the SD card for the moment as it was the recommended one from the Raspberry Pi foundation. I got a 16GB Sandisk SDHC card to put it on, and it works great from the looks of things!

I'll be doing more blog posts soon about the Pi and hopefully be showing some programming stuff soon!