EP09 - Getting Started With @Raspberry_Pi
This week we talk about what you need to know about Raspberry Pi. A new $25 micro computer, the size of a credit card, that has made a huge wave in the hacker/programmer scene. It's aimed for educational purposes, but hackers all over the world also have their own agendas for this computer.
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How important is Raspberry Pi
What is the Raspberry Pi?
Raspberry Pi foundation (Eben Upton)
$25, credit card sized computer
Enough power to run 1080p video (More graphics power than iPhone 4)
Where to order? raspberrypi.org
Setting up an environment
Dev is in Linux: EP05 Getting started with Linux
Video tutorials at: http://youtube.com/RaspberryPiTutorials
Use virtalbox to setup a linux distro (Debian, Fedora, etc)
Dev in RaspPi will be in Python
Easy to learn, object oriented, interpreted language
Official Python Tutorial (Python Software Foundation) http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
Because it’s interpreted you can program for it anywhere
PyGame - Game development library (SDL)
where do ppl think they will use RasPi?
Raspberry Pi VM Tutorial: http://russelldavis.org/
Python Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
Video Tutorial: http://youtube.com/RaspberryPiTutorials
Raspberry Pi World: http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/