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47of74

(18,470 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2016, 08:32 PM Mar 2016

Got myself a Raspberry PI the other day

When I was down in St. Louis to visit family, I discovered a store called Micro Center. I found that had Raspberry Pi 2 Model Bs for sale so I decided to pick one up plus a starter kit. I had to get a micro SD card, once I did that I was able to download the Raspbian OS.

I got it up and running this evening.

I'll have to play with it some more in the coming days.

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Got myself a Raspberry PI the other day (Original Post) 47of74 Mar 2016 OP

Did you grab one of the $5 Zeros too? PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #1

Unfortuantely no. 47of74 Mar 2016 #2

Very cool. 4now Mar 2016 #3

I've been wanting to get one for quite a while. Binkie The Clown Mar 2016 #4

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. Did you grab one of the $5 Zeros too?

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 08:34 PM

Mar 2016

http://www.microcenter.com/product/457746/Raspberry_Pi_Zero

47of74

(18,470 posts)

2. Unfortuantely no.

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 08:51 PM

Mar 2016

I didn't think of getting one while I was there and it turns out the St. Louis store is sold out of them.

4now

(1,596 posts)

3. Very cool.

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 10:26 PM

Mar 2016

You should be able to have some fun with that.
I have a couple older Raspberry Pis. one I use for a media center with Kodi and the other one I use to block ads on my local network for our tablets and other devices.
The ones I have are really old so I am looking forward to buying a Raspberry Pi 3 one of these days.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

4. I've been wanting to get one for quite a while.

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 12:26 AM

Mar 2016

About 20 years ago I designed my own machine language instruction set (I know, what programmer hasn't!) and I'd really like to emulate it on something I can stick into a retro-looking box with blinking lights and data entry toggle switches for the nostalgia of programming in assembler again. I have the emulator I wrote in C many years ago, but I'd love to port it to something stand-alone dedicated to emulating my home brew processor design.

Something like this little baby that was my own first home computer:

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