Look at it D:<
 

 
And its working well so far,
 
Anybody have any advice? I am new to Linux...

Put it away, give up now, and run away.

very cool. nice to see a real person actually get one of these. 

Where where you able to buy it from?  D:<
 
EDIT:
 
Nvm, found one and bought it!  

Where?  I must have one...
[edit] Here's one:

RASPBERRY-PI - RASPBRRY-PCBA - RASPBERRY PI MODEL B - BOARD ONLY

[more edit] Can't build a link today for some reason.  Here's the URL:
http://www.newark.com/jsp...YPI&mckv=suQgIt5tu
I think I still have a Newark account.  Got to get one coming.
Z.

I ordered mine back in February. You are going to have a nice wait and hope that their are not a few thousand people in front of you in orders. :P
 
I should be able to get XMBC working easily. but right now it just has Debian Arm working... kind of. I was expecting a GUI and its all basically DOS. And i am working on learning the command i need for it.

You throw xbmc on that thing yet?

Bowenac


You throw xbmc on that thing yet?

 
Naaa that's easy. We already have 2 WD TV Live boxes in the house that do all the steaming.I want to do a bit more with this than that.
 

I was just curious how well it works.

Glad you got yours this fast. I've pre-ordered mine a week ago after receiving mail stating I can finally do it, hope there is quantities large enough so I can have it.

Gosh dangit, went to Fleabay to grab one quick, and those greedy sob's want $175+ for them... LOL

I have developed using on of these Freescale i.MX boards and they are really awesome, and have tons of add on accessories as well. I would highly recommend it to the more advanced user that is interested in implementing code to a Linux platform with some sweet hardware. This is a development board however, for designing programs to run on the platform, however it comes with an SD card with Linux loaded onto it already. What can you actually do with the Raspberry? Is it just a small computer pretty much? Or are you able to write and upload code?
 
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53QSB&tid=vanIMXQUICKSTART

what linux OS will you be using ?
 
I think puppy has or is making a build for it
 
you may want to learn how to use GCC++ to port software to arm 

Can't wait to try mine out, 3 weeks to go...

muskie32


Where where you able to buy it from?  D:<

EDIT:

Nvm, found one and bought it!  

Where did you buy one so quick? Or did you overpay on eBay? I want one soon...

Bkatt


I ordered mine back in February. You are going to have a nice wait and hope that their are not a few thousand people in front of you in orders. :P

I should be able to get XMBC working easily. but right now it just has Debian Arm working... kind of. I was expecting a GUI and its all basically DOS. And i am working on learning the command i need for it.

 
Good old terminal.  Now we are talking about the good stuff.  

Drerex

Bkatt


I ordered mine back in February. You are going to have a nice wait and hope that their are not a few thousand people in front of you in orders. :P

I should be able to get XMBC working easily. but right now it just has Debian Arm working... kind of. I was expecting a GUI and its all basically DOS. And i am working on learning the command i need for it.

Good old terminal.  Now we are talking about the good stuff.  

 
Well i was able to get into the GUI and start playing with things. You have to set a root password and name to be able to use quite a few things in there.

should also be able to use the command "startx" to get things rolling, at least that is how Fedora is.

Cool!  I hope that mine shows up soon. =(  I got an e-mail on the 2nd of last month saying that mine would be `coming soon!'  I ordered in March though, so who knows how long it will take.
 
Oh well, it's not like I don't have a million other things that I should be doing!  Good luck with yours!

WOw, congrats. Just saw your post!. I've been following the Pi channel since it has started. You can install XBMC on it,and you it as a media center for your HDTV, and maybe power it off the USB port of your TV. :) 
 
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By the way if you want something with a more easier interface rather than DOS, why don't you give the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix a try?

really would like to pick up a pair of rasberry PI's eventually.  One to put here in my bedroom and hook into my monitors for late night media so i don't have to keep my PC on for that, and another in the living room for media access as well.

ryandigweed


WOw, congrats. Just saw your post!. I've been following the Pi channel since it has started. You can install XBMC on it,and you it as a media center for your HDTV, and maybe power it off the USB port of your TV. :) 

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By the way if you want something with a more easier interface rather than DOS, why don't you give the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix a try?

 
I tried everything to get XMBC to work correctly and that is still a no go. It is unable to play any movie i try off of my network drive and it will sometimes play music, However most of the time it just fast forward though the songs at 2x speed no mater how you try and play it.
 
I am using raspberry pi debian right now.
 
I tried using the Fedora Remix installer... Oh god never again. It locks my computer up and i have to do a hard reset. And after my raid array is doing verifying i have several blocks that need to be repaired. And i make sure to select the SD card... I think it has issues with raid arrays. Because for whatever reason it basically attacks one of my physical drives and starts removing data. Lucky my array is really good at fixing missing data.
 
I found a Logitech multimedia keyboard with built in track pad that is working really well right now and only takes up 1 usb port for the receiver.  I had to pair the receiver and keyboard in windows but after that was done it worked very well for the pi. http://bensoutlet.com/products/logitech-k700 and the receiver can handle other devices as well... However XMBC does not recognize the multi media keys correctly and i can not reprogram it to use...
 
I am also currently running everything except the monitor off of a rechargeable USB battery and a solar panel. i have in my window. I want to find a USB powered monitor that can be used with HDMI but they seem to not exist. They do have USB monitors but they will not worth with the Pi yet. But they are getting close...
 
But my goal is to have a fully working "Computer" running just off my solar panel and the Dual usb 8000mAh battery one port for the pi and the other for the monitor.

If you want to have a portable display, you could attach a screen from a mobile like the latest  big screen mobiles directly to the GPIO pins on the raspberry Pi but you will have to do a couple of modifications with some IC's etc. You can even use the touch screen for touch input.
 
Otherwise you do it easily by using some of those tiny displays that you get for the cars to hook up to the reversing camera. They're cheap and  and small. You just have to plug it into the Analog Video port. the size could be from 3-12"
 
And ofcourse you won't get much of a good resolution or result, but it's good enough for a portable screen to monitor your server.
 
I am planning to do all the above, and even run it off solar power along with my DSL modem once i get a Pi i.e :) 

FYI:
General orders open to the public at Newark.com in the US on July 5th:
 
http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi2.html?in_merch=Popular%2520Products&in_merch=Popular%2520Products&MER=PPSO_N_C_EverywhereElse_None
 

I'm telling you guys, you can get these right now and they are much much better than the Raspberry, although you will end up paying $150 for one, but you can attach a 4.3" LCD w/ touch screen for an extra 100 bucks. They are really great and are especially great for developing programs to run on the ARM architecture. The components are of a MUCH higher quality as well, I have been working with one for a few months and absolutely love it.
 
http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=71T7342&CMP=KNC-GPLA

yeah, that's true, but the Pi is still just for a mere 25-35$, and if you want, you can also connect a touch screen to it , with some modifications. It's upto you. 
 
There are so many companies with Raspberry Pi alternatives at this moment. I guess the Pi just had to start off all this hustle and bustle. The professor started it off with the motive of getting most of the students to learn programming easily but now many companies are trying to take advantage of the hype that the pi has caused. Thy're comming up with many alternatives, and higher powered systems. 
 
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The HDMI output port alone costs 49$ :| And according to their spec sheet, seems like the touch screen is an added $199, it doesn't mention if the starter board is included. :S 

No the starter board is not included, it is $149, that Freescale board was out long before the Raspberry Pu was. The Freescale board is more of a development tool for engineers than just a single board PC, hence the JTAG connector on the bottom side.

Yeah, that what i was wondering. I guess more hype that was caught about the Pi, was for the media centers, attached storage etc.
 
Although i think it would have been great with a better cpu and double the ram, since the CPU stresses out while loading the media center GUI. 
 
I haven't used one personally so i can't judge. But i like the idea. I guess 

If you really want alternatives than look up the.
 
PandaBoard
BeagleBoard
Via APC
Mele A1000
MK802
FXI Cotton Candy
CuBox
 
There are more out there but they are also kits that you have to slap together different modules to make a working "Computer"

I finally got one, traded an old LGA775 system for it. Will probably boot it up later tonight if I can find a Micro SD to SD adapter, all I have is Micro SD.