Got myself a Raspberry PI the other day

[47of74]

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.

[PoliticAverse]

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

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

[47of74]

2. Unfortuantely no.

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]

3. Very cool.

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]

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

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: