Raspberry Pi Thread

[Sheriff Fatman]

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/

[technolog]

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 :-)

[Sheriff Fatman]

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!

[kinboshi]

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.

[Sheriff Fatman]

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).

[kinboshi]

You've definitely got it easier than Jack

[Dino]

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.

[technolog]

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.

[Dino]

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.

[Sheriff Fatman]

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.

[technolog]

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.

[bobAlike]

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/

[mulhuzz]

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.