[sclug] Fwd: Pi has arrived!

[MM]

Hi all

You may be interest in a free event on 24 January in Reading


http://www.theiet.org/events/2013/raspberry-pi_20130124_167064.cfm 






Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Mark Robson
Sent: 19 November 2012 12:31
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: [sclug] Fwd: Pi has arrived!

Hi

Mine arrived with 512M ram last month after about 3 weeks. I've been using
it as a traffic monitoring system using sound and camera sensors (usb
microphone; old digital camera).

Working just fine.

My advice is - get a decent power supply, and don't plug anything which uses
lots of power directly into the Pi. I used a Samsung phone charger, its 5v
is absolutely spot on with the pi running according to my voltmeter.

Powering it off a USB hub doesn't work too well, as most USB leads have too
much resistance so the Pi gets ~ 4v in my experience.

Mark