[torontocbm] Re: Raspberry Pi's
- From: Leif Bloomquist <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:23:23 -0400
Would some of you be up for demoing your Raspberry Pi projects at the
next TPUG meeting (September 20th)?
-Leif
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Miraglia, Walter
<Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the wireless keyboard/mouse kit is available at factory direct, I purchased
> it for $16.00 at the time with a coupon,
> the netgear N150 was 9.99 (no coupon required)
>
> today I purchased two Tenda W311m wireless usb cards ( tiny, and on the list
> of compatible wifi usb devices. ( same chipset as the W311u ) this was only
> 9.99 (with a printable coupon)
> purchased two of those for my remaining raspberry pi's.
>
> will run them headless, downloaded learn.adafruit.com raspi distro
> specially formulated for hardware hacking ( I2C, ISP, Uart, GPIO) all enabled
> in hardware. check it out.
> awesome article on painting with light ( on the front page of
> www.rasbperrypi.org :) really happy with these tenda w311m tiny usb
> sticks. :) seem to work well with the wireless keyboard and mouse
> kit mentioned abouve... the Genious Slimstar 8000 :) good times :)
>
> so factory direct has em, call the store your closest too, if it says almost
> out of stock, they can verify stock, and suggest a store where they have them
> :)
>
> cheers. :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Mike Stein [mhs.stein@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 3:43 PM
> To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Raspberry Pi's
>
> Updating an old idea, eh? Gonna put the pix on the Web?
>
> http://makeprojects.com/Project/VCR-Cat-Feeder/69/1
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miraglia, Walter<mailto:Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:44 PM
> Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Raspberry Pi's
>
> I have three. Ordered 1 about 2 months ago, and then ordered two more
> (before my first one arrived) about two weeks ago, and got them after about a
> week.
> For now I’m just getting comfortable with Linux and creating SD cards, and
> fighting with powered USB hubs ( cyberpower, on the list or working ones )
> but still gives me grief depending on the time of day. And which ports I plug
> things in… sometimes work great… other times… meh…
>
> The following two wireless devices work great in the two built in usb ports
> no powered hub required…
>
> I have a good wireless usb interface: Netgear N150,
> wireless keyboard/mouse combo: Genius Slimstar 8000 wireless mouse
>
> Projects hoping to do:
>
> Internet based treat dispenser that takes pictures and emails me a shot of my
> dog enjoying the treat…
> Got a simplified version working on arduino (no pics…) just dispense remotely
> via UDP app on iphone.
>
> May have them send temperature information to me from various points in the
> house…
>
> Messing around in general.
>
> May just flash some L.E.D.’s with it. ☺
>
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> From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Gray
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:25 PM
> To: Toronto CBM
> Subject: [torontocbm] Raspberry Pi's
>
> Hi,
>
> Two new Raspberry Pi computers showed up at my door today! Anyone else have
> one, and if so what are you doing with them?
> I'm not a big Linux person, but I hear they're working on Android for it as
> well...
>
> Steve
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