Days ago i got play with Raspberry Pi-2 Model B.
It was really awsome to play with it. What attract me is the terminderious power it has regardless of being so tiny on size. I had chance to try different Raspberry Pi OS with it.
It was really awsome to play with it. What attract me is the terminderious power it has regardless of being so tiny on size. I had chance to try different Raspberry Pi OS with it.
- Raspbian
is the recomended OS by raspberrypi.org.
Few strength of raspbian is
– easy access to GPIO pin. a mere echo and cat could control the voltage in and out of the pins
– ssh server by default
– ip can be set on /boot/cmdline.txt.
Hence no dispaly is required to access it
– give ip added on /boot/cmdline.txt
– give static ip to your machine on the same range of ip assigned to raspi
– ssh to raspi using default account “pi” with password “raspberry“
I can access the GPIO pin easily. With as simple shell script and my DIY hardware, i successed to seven segment display using 7 LEDs.
Similary using LDR’s, it could be used to count the people/object passing by.
But one problem i faced with Raspeian is that i can’t successed to install flash and hence gives me trouble to access some content on site. But ya may have switched to another OS soon before digging more. 🙂
- Ubuntu Mate
is a nice distribution for using raspi as a computer. Download it from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
I successed to install flash, chromium browser and hence my raspi become a tiny netpc.
Install peperflash for chromium-browser http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/30053/how-do-i-install-get-the-flash-player-on-raspberry-pi
Download the pepperflash and extract
wget http://odroidxu.leeharris.me.uk/PepperFlash-15.0.0.152.r2-armv7h.tar.gz
tar -xzf PepperFlash-15.0.0.152.r2-armv7h.tar.gz
give permission
chmod +x *
Copy the extracted files to plugins directory of chromium
sudo cp * /usr/lib/chromium/plugins
Edit chromium config to link the pepperflash with chromium
sudo nano /etc/chromium/default CHROMIUM_FLAGS=”–ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/chromium/plugins/libpepflashplayer.so –ppapi-flash-version=15.0.0.152 -password-store=detect -user-data-dir”
- EXTON Linux
Another nicer distro for using raspi as net client.
It is an ubuntu derivatives have Chromium,flash and the flash works by default.
More info : http://linux.exton.net/?tag=raspberry-pi-2
You may need to set the HDMI audio out. check /boot/config.txt
If wireless doungle is not detected, you may need to create/edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf (google for what to edit)