This post was done on a
Raspberry Pi running a version of Debian Linux. The credit card sized board has 512 M RAM, an SD Card slot, an ethernet port and two USB ports. I used an LG cell phone charger with 4.8 V at 700 mA to power it. I also tried Scratch and Pygame on it. The
board was $55, the plastic
case for it is $20 (ordered from Amazon.ca). It can be bought for the original $35 price from
here. It is connected to my LG TV via HDMI. I was using the
Wheezy Debian distro.
One of the annoyances you may come across right away is when you try to type the @ symbol with shift 2 (it gives you a "). This is because Raspberry Pi Debian distro is set for UK keyboard by default. You need to
type shift apostrophe to get the @ symbol on a North American keyboard.
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