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| Wireless Mouse, Keyboard & Unifying receiver, 4GB (minimum) SD Card HDMI lead and ethernet cable not pictured |
The operating system image will be written to the SD Card and, hopefully, we will be off & running.
This post is becoming a running commentary since there is little to be gained from sitting and watching the progress bar. The image file has been downloaded; I have uncompressed the file (now 1.9GB) and am trying to get the image file written to the SD Card, but Ubuntu's dd command isn't behaving... Going to try to get the Image Writer utility from the Ubuntu Software Center to see if that works.
The SD Card is written with the operating system image - the Image Writer utility did the trick! I am going to start a new post with the first run and maybe add a video.
Sounds like a really cool project tykus. I'm interested to see what you make of it. I presume there's a minimum level of technical skill required to do something like this? Adding memory modules to a computer is about as advanced as I've gotten on the hardware side of things, but I'd love to know more about the rest of the computer innards.
ReplyDeleteThanks John,
DeleteIt is definitely an interesting hobby, and for less than the price of a night out!
The idea behind the RPi is to get children interested in programming, so the learning curve isn't going to be insurmountable. There is a vast amount of information available on the web, and you'll find yourself picking things up quickly!
My Linux experience started by hacking the Linksys NSLU2 Network Attached Storage and needing to learn a lot of command line instructions quickly, but it is the best way to get immersed in programming in general. I'll probably write a blog post about that at some point in the near future.