<div>Raspberry Pi tend to be out of stock across the board. We have a few for the $500 robot project however.</div><div><br></div><div>The general process to getting a Raspberry Pi working is to write an SD-card using one of the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads">premade images</a>, put it into the Pi, and then hook the Pi up to monitor/keyboard/mouse/network and plug it in. You log in with username "pi" password "raspberry", then do "startx" to bring up the graphical environment (if you want).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Pi tends to be somewhat slow compared to a desktop and has a very minimalist set of applications by default, so you'd probably want to install an application that'd be fun to play with. With the "Raspbian" images, you can use "apt-get" like Ubuntu. The Arch Linux images are somewhat faster, but Arch in general requires more power-user knowledge to get setup and running.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What we've been doing for the robotics project is some facial recognition using OpenCV, and remotely controlling an Arduino that drives a robot. One robot is a Roomba, the other robot is a motorized wheelchair base (minus the chair) that's been reworked to run via Arduino/Pi. Currently they are manually controlled, our intended goal is to get enough intelligence on the Pi for them to be capable of a few simple tasks.</div>
<div><br></div>- Steven<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caryl@laptop.org" target="_blank">caryl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Folks...<div><br></div><div>Two things...</div><div><br></div><div>1) they are still looking for a couple more speakers for the Saturday OSSIE track. Anyone want to jump in and try one? I need to know right away if you are interested.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2) Do any of you have a Raspberry Pi? Have you done anything with it yet? I have one and want to get it working by SCaLE. I could really use some help/advice. Either email or Skype or both would work for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Caryl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </font></span></div></div>
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