A Piece of Raspberry Pi

With Christmas break coming, I figured I'd have some spare hours to take on a Raspberry Pi (RPi) project and see what the buzz has been about. Thanks to +John Peterson for the encouragement to start.

Getting One

Turned out to be pretty straight-forward. I was able to order the parts through http://canada.newark.com/ and within 24 hours they were in town from South Carolina (according to UPS tracking) and by the next evening delivered to my door. Speedy is great!

The order included:

Raspberry Pi, version B (Two USB ports)

8Gb SD card with NOOBS installed

case

USB 80211n wifi "nub"

Because it powers using a standard micro USB connector and I already have enough of them, I  left it out of the order. 

Getting Ready

Putting the kit together was a two minute adventure. According to the internet the NOOBS card will customize the card to one of several RPi operating systems that you choose. I made a backup of the card using http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup as a reference.

Next Up

Next time I'll go through powering the RPi up and choosing/configuring Raspbian using NOOBS.