I am interested in getting couple of Pi for fun and various uses. Just waiting for the case to be sold together with the board. And I think I gotta get the power brick, power cable, SD cards and possibly a kvm since I already have 2 keyboards on my desk.

I couldnt wait any longer so I placed an order with element14. $145RM shipped to Malaysia address.

I have 5v 2amp dc power brick, I guess I might have to wire the mini-usb cable to it myself. Or I can power it via a powered usb hub. I wonder if it will work.
Also gotta get some 32GB SD card that works.

When the bundle and case come out, I will buy a second one with extra cables and some SD card that have proven quality and speed.

My estimated ship date is after July 2012... and it doesnt say on July... it is after... so it could be 2200


Edit: HAHA seems like a new updata on raspberry pi website on element14.

"We now have in excess of 100,000 confirmed orders for the Raspberry Pi globally and can confirm that everyone who ordered before 18th April (i.e. today!) will definitely receive their Raspberry Pi before the end of June 2012"

I ordered on the 16 of april. woot!

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Apr 19 2012, 10:56 AM

credit card already fully charged by element14 but yet to get a ship date.

I got mine on 23rd jun. Sized it up, and will be using my old alarm clock that broke, as a case, will have to cut various parts up.

I have yet to boot up, even though I downloaded 2 distro already. Just that my memory card reader doesnt support SDHC... so I bought another online. Hopefully will arrive in 2 more days.

I am still trying to figure out how to set up the rPi to use as a bitorrent client.

Will take some time as I dont know how to even install linux applications. Sudo get ???

I picked up cmds like sudo halt
startx ...

Thats about it. My learning process will be kind of slow.


Woohoo, managed to get vnc working.

did firmware update. hexxeh version.

squeeze debian 6-19-04-2012

transmission gtk
(I failed to get transmission cli/daemon to work... )

btw, is there another bitorrent client which have rss feed automated download to catch those weekly naruto/one piece/hunterXhunter/fairy tail episodes automatically?

currently i am testing a naruto 1080p download. I set mine to download 50kBps as I fear it would burn up.

also, do I have to keep Putty on?

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Jun 29 2012, 10:27 PM

Haha, figured out how to install transmission. got torrents downloaded and seeded for a cheap 3.5watt power consumption. Anyhow, if you guys were searching I did the ultravnc, putty, to ssh into the rasp pi and control it. Also installed transmision remote gui
Putty with psftp, can transfer the file back to my desktop to view.

I am using 32gb sandisk class 6 mobile ultra microsdhc with sd adapter. So I should be able to seed some files for quite a long time.

When I transfer 1-2gb file to desktop using the get -r folder, the network chip gets pretty hot, so my next thing would be to cut a heatsink up and have it thermal glued to the chip. I prefer things to stay cooler even if it is designed to run high.

I paid 125 + 20 for shipping.(which in my opinion should have been 6 bucks)

I use htc charger. But yes you can use iphone charger as well, better would be ipad charger with higher amp rating.

I almost bought a iphone adapter, but its 28 plus another usb/micro usb cable which is another 25 bucks in my local phone shop... so I gave up.

Anyone know of cheap online vendor selling those?

Just keep in mind, it is a 5 v 700A - 1.3A micro usb, not mini usb.

the case looks nice leh. and does not seem that expensive too. how much shipping?

yeah... typo... the pi has a small piece of paper saying 700mA to 1.3A.

5V Multiple by 1A is 5 watt. All those shops that I went to buy the micro usb cable... wanted like 25ringgit for it... wtf....and the adapter is another 45 RM... unless you buy a cheap imitation iphone adapter... which is like also 25 RM...

sure can easily get those things... but do you trust the voltage?? and do you want nose bleed paying those price?

Surely, if you have friends who have old adapters they no longer need, sure can buy for 5 rm... and cable too!!!

where you buy from? I not from KL... so PC/hardware/electronic things here... usually a tat more expensive then the big cities

If online... do share.

have you tried to connect usb flash drive and/or usb harddrive to you pi?

Thanks

Thanks so much. Jotted down those cmd.

anyhow, if harddisk, is daisy chained via the powered usb hub should be ok?

just thinking, could you buy a multi-core refurbished thinkpad for 99? usd that is. Comes with keyboard and screen?

wahsei... 111rm shipped?

go for the raspbian release? I dled it but yet to install.

I tried to install vlc... but it does not seem to work.

Yet to try things like xbmc... and others.

nope, last I tried to install vlc on the pi. Didnt work. Didnt try like xbmc or other media player. It might be another couple of months, untill then the pi is working full time as a torrent machine.

It has been up like 3 weeks I reckon.

but if the cable cost 25 bucks...
anyway, i guess the idea is to buy worthy stuff to fill up the 25bucks. You must recommend since you "buta buta" me.

currently the only kill on iphone is that, it is in the hands of lots and lots of new age programmers in schools. With those tiny people growing up with raspberry pi and used to Linux system, it could change the way Apple operates.

In terms of beautiful interface, there are lots of great designers outside of Apple who will try to "innovate" "copy" "kickass"

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Added on August 6, 2012, 12:44 amFair enough, 5 ringgit more for some tools. Still, I might want to get a case, some analogue breakout,

http://hackaday.com/2012/07/23/the-proper-...a-raspberry-pi/

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Aug 6 2012, 12:44 AM

works very well. I limit the download to 60KB/s and 12 KB/s up during off peak.

But it just hang up on me. Was working like for couple of weeks without rebooting. I might have caused some disturbance when tidy up the wire mess behind the LD,dvd,pc,amp,tv. As it does not have any shielding, I dunno what those wires with 240v running will cause any problem.(probably not.)

It only hanged when i added 4 anime torrent at one shot though.

I have about 4-5 seeding going on, and had downloaded close to 20gb worth after it hang up.