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I have seen a few videos on the Pi and some of the amazing things it can do. I decided to see if it was as easy as the videos made it out to be. Ordered my first board today. Talk to you all later for help, tips, and tricks.

e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to fustini

I have found many helpful videos on YouTube but the Internet cyber place I return to the most is the Adafruit Learning Center at Adafruit.com or http://learn.adafruit.com/ . The Raspberry Pi section is full of tatorials to get you started with your Pi and projects that step you through so that even a beginner can complete, learn, and gain some pride from the accomplishment. Thanks Lady Ada and staff for all the help with my Pi. By the way, they also have tutorials on Beagle Bone, Arduino, and just interesting projects and hacks. They also have a Pi-Day every Friday new live stream.

Enjoy
Ray
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Thanks, Raymond. If anyone else has additional links, then please post a reply: Re: Favorite Pi educational resources & youth projects?
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e14 Contributor over 13 years ago

Has everyone who wants to learn more seen the educational resources and youth projects put together by fustini? Very well done. Thanks Drew.
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e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi Matt,

It's the Ourlink Wireless 802.11b/g/n USB Adapter. The Adafruit part number is 814. If you go to http://www.adafruit.com/product/814 it will take you directly to this product. Then the video I watched to get the command line syntax was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2m2UeP3bw .

Enjoy

Ray
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e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi Ray,

Do you know the exact name of the wifi adapter? Thank you in advance.
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e14 Contributor over 13 years ago

Just an update. I received a USB WiFi adapter from Adafruit. It was $16.11 with shipping. I watched one YouTube video and had it up and running in 30 minutes. Now my Pi is on the web.
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e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to dwinhold

Hi Dale,

Success! I am now running my Pi with a version of Wheezy that I sent to a SD card. I don't feel so timid now that I now I can get back to square one if I make a system wide disastrous mistake. The gloves are off and I'm ready to take corners at 90 MPH. LOL Well, you get the flavour of my excitement.

Thanks for all your time and help.
Ray
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e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to dwinhold

Hi Dale,

That was a great video. I watched it three times. The third time I followed with the gentlemen and it just finished writting the image. Now to see if it worked. Back in a few seconds.

Ray
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dwinhold over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi Ray,

I was going to write a long tutorial but found this great Youtube video that does it better than I ever could. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvNxprbDhQ
The download page: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
If you have any questions, please let me know.

Have fun with it!!!

Dale W
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dwinhold over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Hi Ray,

I have done this through mac as well. I will send the information soon. And call me Dale as well.
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