What can I do with my element 14?

I have just been given an element 14 for my birthday. I am reasonably computer savvy but I have no idea what I can do with my pressie.

Anyone tell mer?

Jack

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ntewinkel over 12 years ago

As far as I know, element14 refers only to this website and the related company (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Maybe you have a product that was created by element14, like an XL_Star development board?

Could you post a picture of what you have?

Cheers,
-Nico
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

Nico thanks for your reply enclosed below is a photo
Since unwraping it I have powered it up using an old Blackberry charger.
Cheers for your interest
.Jack
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Someone told me the PI is a mini computer and for its size is very powerful and can be used to learn programming. It can be connected to a tv or monitor.
i have connected it up to my computer by PSI slot but the computer does not show it as connected.
i have connected it to the TV but again it does not show.
Jack
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ntewinkel over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Oh sweet! You have a Raspberry Pi - those things are still quite hard to get!

It is indeed a small stand-alone computer that hooks up to your TV.
Your first step should be to just run it as a basic computer, by hooking up a mouse and keyboard and a TV, and running the operating system on an SD card. Don't hook it up to your computer.

Here is a quick start guide: http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide

If you have trouble figuring out how to get the SD card set up with the operating system, I'm pretty sure you can buy a prebuilt one on element14.

Once you have it running as a little computer, you can look into learning how to program it using Python. And from there the possibilities are quite endless actually.

Check out the Raspberry Pi group - they will have a lot more information for you than I can give: http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi

Cheers,
-Nico
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

Nico, thanks so much for your advice, obviously you are a man who knows what hes talking about and to be listened to.
My friend, as you have said, has since told me its a rasberry Pi
I'll look up the links you have sugested.
Cheers again
Jack
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

Nico, thanks so much for your advice, obviously you are a man who knows what hes talking about and to be listened to.
My friend, as you have said, has since told me its a rasberry Pi
I'll look up the links you have sugested.
Cheers again
Jack
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Nico, Dave, thanks to both your advices and reading the links pages, I'm slowly learning a little.
I've have to go to town to buy SD card so cannot do much more at this time.
Thanks again
Lads
jack
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