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| Authored by: UncleVom on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 09:08 PM EST |
I have a love/hate relationship with mine an early Rev. 1.0.
I voided the warranty within about half a day of getting it by firing up my
soldering iron and fixing some of the bad ideas that always seem to get into a
1.0 of anything. Anyway despite my "fixes" and being heavily
overclocked and slightly over volted mine continues to function.
The current Rev. 2 with the 512MB of RAM, mounting holes and various
fixes/improvements is a far better piece of hardware.
I plan on buying a Rev. 2 one of these days.
I find the thing like a time machine that takes me way back to my Z80 days.
Although it is unbelievably powerful by comparison, everything is relative
through the goggles of nostalgia. (-8
Make sure you have a decent stable power supply and seriously think about a
powered USB hub (with good reviews) if you plan on adding any highish power USB
gadgets.
Best OS starting point IMO is Raspbian with the default install.
I'm sure you will have fun. :-)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 07:02 AM EST |
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http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/Raspberry_Pi_Education_Manual
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 07:51 AM EST |
I received mine last week. I bought the Starter Pack from
Adafruit. I was able to assemble it all on a board with
a power strip mounted on it using Velcro(TM). It took me
several tries to get the Micro SD card set up with Raspian
because I have never worked with a SD card before, but it
all works now. Raspberry Pi is awesome on a 55" flatscreen
:-)
I'm looking forward to writing some software to work with
the GPIO pins. I'm still uncertain if external interupts
are supported via GPIO.
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