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Had mine delivered today. Anybody else got one?

(http://documentally.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Raspberry-Pi.jpg)

Think I'm going to use mine predominanlty as a media centre.

(http://hexwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Raspberry_Pi.jpg)

Is this one of those small computers? Do you get a case to put it in?

All you get is whats in the pic.
You need to get an SD card, keyboard, mouse, power suppy and tv/monitor
You can make or buy the cases.

One of the geeks at work has got one. Never stops going on about it. Uses his as a media centre too

Lol, I'm def not a geek.

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Geek!

I've been following the Pi's progress with interest since before Christmas. An amazing success story with over a quarter of a million now sold. I reckon I'm about to order mine. I've been holding off because I don't think I'll have time to do it justice but, for £25, why wouldn't you?

It's a cracking little device for the money. It's up and running now with one of the most popular Pi versions of Linux. I bit garish in display colours but otherwise great.

The main reason for me to buy one was to teach the lad about coding. So i let him put it all together and fire it up for the first time. His first command he tried to type in was 'kill dad' lol. It didn't like the syntax.
:)

Will deffo try to turn it into a media centre though. Could be a cheap way of making a normal TV into a kind of smart TV.

How you getting on with the media centre project? They've recently added the capability to turn it into a PVR too. I reckon this will be my first project - when it arrives :(

...and this (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/) might be my second :)

Unfortunately I havent done much with it yet. Life getting in the way too much.

Great news (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925)! It's been such a runaway success that they've been able to get it made in the UK

Received my Pi this week. Due to only owning an imaginary USB keyboard as opposed to a real one, I've not been able to do anything other than install the 'Wheezy' distro on the SD card. I'm hoping to purloin an unused keyboard from work tomorrow or failing that, buy one :( then we'll get cracking! Perfect timing for the Christmas break.

I believe we have another blonde piman as well.

Yes, but this one simply wants to emulate the Archimedes version of 'Elite' and his PC was objecting to this!

http://blogs.arcsoftwareconsultancy.com/pi/2012/11/13/archimedes_elite/

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posting from my Raspberry Pi!

Plugged everything in and it booted up, ran through a one-time config screen, checked for updates then I started the windowing desktop and started browsing. Straight forward and totally painless, everything worked straight out of the box.

The default browser, Midori, is a little slow but I guess it won't get much faster as the Pi just doesn't have the oomph to compete with a full PC. However, for £25 it's perfectly useable.

Only problem atm is the leads trailing all across the lounge. I'll have to come up with a tidier solution to avoid Laxie's ire :-)

Just had pretty much the exact same experience!

I doubt it.

True, the wires all over our conservatory won't annoy Laxie, I guess, but otherwise a similar tale (except I sent my test message to Facebook).

You've definitely got it easier than Jack :D

I got a wireless keyboard/mouse and usb wifi dongle for mine so I can stick it next to the tv and hide the leads.

D'oh! I hadn't thought of that, I was going down the long leads route (though tbf, I hadn't thought about it much). I'll see what Santa says. Did the wi-fi work straight out of the box or was some setup required? I have an unused one around a year old on a now defunct desktop PC.

I bought a bundle with dongle,and sd card with os already setup for wireless on ebay,but the latest release of raspbian is supposed to support wifi dongles.

Managed to get Archimedes Elite running on it tonight, then realised just how bastard difficult it was to play until you could afford a docking computer!

However, I consider it a major achievement that I've now got two operating systems up and running on it in two days!  I may have to quit while I'm ahead!

I bought a cheap HDMI to DVI cable on eBay too (c£3.50 vs the £20 that Maplin, etc will try to charge for similar) and have managed to escape the TV and set it up on a proper monitor.

I got a wireless keyboard & mouse, good old Mrs Santa Claus! I was moderately amazed when it worked instantly on plugging it in. Linux wasn't like this when I last played with, prolly around a decade ago.

My next mini project is to get access to my NAS.

As long as I can get my lad to show some interest I think I've found the first project.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Coffee-Table-Pi/

Using OpenElec for media serving, handily plugged into a tv with VPN and season pass for premiership footy with Abu Dhabi media.

Managed to get AirPlay working to send video from phone to pi as well and just generally using it to learn more python (I self taught a bit of stuff primarily to use pymongo to get data out of mongoDBs at work, but very much a noob).

Any other interesting projects for fun/learning Python.