Below is my experience from 2 days of tinkering with Raspberry Pi.
Purchased: Raspberry Pi 500MB with cover Plus 4GB preloaded SD card from Farnell.
Day 1.
Connected with 42" LCD TV and though Bootup took some time but was able to complete all without any problem. Installed Putty and Xming on my laptop to free the LCD TV. In 2 hours my Raspberry Pi was setup near my router remotely connected to my laptop.
Decided to move from 4GB to 8GB and a faster Raspberry Pi using class10 SD card. Purchased a SanDisk Ultra 8GB - SDSDQUA-008G-U46A class 10 SD card. Though a website mentioned it as incompatible, went ahead to install the latest image downloaded from Raspberry Pi downloads using Win32DiskImager. Used samsung laptop SDcard reader to transfer image to the SD card. First Install had problem communicating with PuTTY as maybe full startup was not done during first boot and SSH key was not generated. Second image flashing worked perfectly.
Before starting PuTTY, first get the IP address of Raspery Pi using the command ifconfig. Logon using PuTTY and click start Xming. Type Startlxde at PuTTY to start the GUI window on Xming.
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Day 2.
Full code testing time today. Raspberry Pi Educational Manual is excellent for novice like me. But some issues are not reported like Pygame not available yet with Python3. So the first thing is to do some update and install some packages.
You will need these
To get all the needed updates you need to execute these commands at LXterminal:-
$ sudo apt-get update
To get Python updates
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
To install GPIO that is used in the example in Raspberry Pi educational manual
$ sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio
To install WebOb that is used in the example in Raspberry Pi educational manual
$ sudo apt-get install python-WebOb
Purchased: Raspberry Pi 500MB with cover Plus 4GB preloaded SD card from Farnell.
Day 1.
Connected with 42" LCD TV and though Bootup took some time but was able to complete all without any problem. Installed Putty and Xming on my laptop to free the LCD TV. In 2 hours my Raspberry Pi was setup near my router remotely connected to my laptop.
Decided to move from 4GB to 8GB and a faster Raspberry Pi using class10 SD card. Purchased a SanDisk Ultra 8GB - SDSDQUA-008G-U46A class 10 SD card. Though a website mentioned it as incompatible, went ahead to install the latest image downloaded from Raspberry Pi downloads using Win32DiskImager. Used samsung laptop SDcard reader to transfer image to the SD card. First Install had problem communicating with PuTTY as maybe full startup was not done during first boot and SSH key was not generated. Second image flashing worked perfectly.
Before starting PuTTY, first get the IP address of Raspery Pi using the command ifconfig. Logon using PuTTY and click start Xming. Type Startlxde at PuTTY to start the GUI window on Xming.
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Day 2.
Full code testing time today. Raspberry Pi Educational Manual is excellent for novice like me. But some issues are not reported like Pygame not available yet with Python3. So the first thing is to do some update and install some packages.
You will need these
To get all the needed updates you need to execute these commands at LXterminal:-
$ sudo apt-get update
To get Python updates
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
To install GPIO that is used in the example in Raspberry Pi educational manual
$ sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio
To install WebOb that is used in the example in Raspberry Pi educational manual
$ sudo apt-get install python-WebOb
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