Video Blog, the Raspberry Pi SD experiment. UPDATED

Hi this is a Vlog about getting my Raspberry Pi going, in the when I took delivery of it It did not work and I thought I found a Method that got it going however every time it was unplugged for a prolonged time it would not work, so this time I measured how long it took to work and !boot the SD card up successfully.

I think that If I use a more powerful PSU it may warm the board up quicker, but I welcome anyone's thoughts on this.

UPDATE.

I have managed to demonstrate that if heated up the board works faster to boot up the SD card.

Lego Armour for My Raspberry Pi

Well its Day four of my tinkering around with the New Pi, I am still experiencing startup problems of off the SD card when its cold, it will only start off an old 1 GB card with the boot dropped on it, not an image, so I get kernal errors a plenty,but it starts up so then I can put my proper 4 GB card in and it works as normal!

If this happens again I will record it to document to anyone who is interested.

In the meantime, until this problem is fixed I have made a quick case for it out of my Kids Lego!

The Commodore Pi 64

I have just made a start on putting my Raspberry Pi into an old Commodore 64 Shell, I have a Keyrah USB interface from using the C64 on my Nintendo Wii, so it seemed to be the natural thing to do, I am still to refine the ports and plugs as the Pi seems very fragile and I want to avoid pulling it about.

I have thanks to My Good friend Andy W, managed to run Bruce lee on it using Vice 64 Emulator, but at present I cant use the joystick and there is no sound, but this is an ever changing situation as this build will be, I will look to make some refinements to my C64 soon.

I have just added a video......

I will keep you posted!

Raspberry PI: How I solved My SD non-recognition.

I posted this also posted this on....

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/absolute-beginners

I thought I would share how I got my Pi Running this week.


I downloaded all the relevant software and transfered the Squeeze unzipped items as an image to my new Sandisk 4 GB sd card, but every time I turned on the Pi I only got the PWR light on, and nothing else, no Visual out put or anything.

I looked around here for any clue as to the problem and read that this was probably a SD error as the Pi may not be able to read the image on the card, so I retried many times and re read the method many times too, still no result.

I checked that my card was approved, and it seemed to be proven, so I was a bit gutted and began to think that I had bricked the pi in some way.

However, I had an old 1 GB card in my nintendo wii, I knew if I tried to transfer the software with the imager it would say that the card was too small, so for some reason ( probably frustration!) I copied the files from the 4 GB card to the desktop of my computer, then dropped them straight onto my 1 GB card as the files seem to be smaller that the capacity of 1 gig.

I put this card into my pi, with the Ethernet plugged in too, and to my surprise it Booted up!

I had visuals and the Pi tried to install as much it could, inevitably it stopped half way through as the ! gig card was not partition off and the Pi did not like this.

So continuing on my cavalier approach to Booting the PI, I then turned it off and replaced the card for the 4 GB one again and turned on not expecting it to work, as by now I had concluded it was a SD fault.

Wrong, it swallowed the contents and my Pi is fully operational!

Go Figure! it was a CPR of sorts for the PI.