The first thing I decided to do was to create a case. Others had made some attempts with Lego, even Father-in-Law so I decided that this would be my first attempt.
I found some instructions on the web of a version made a young lady. I found her version used lots of Lego if the colours I didin't have. I wanted all red.My box of spares have different colours so our second version used larger Lego boards to make the case stronger and I lowered the height by one brick to make a more snug fit.
With the box made and connected to a 40" TV I was ready to go.
My version came from Maplins and as a kit came with a keyboard, mouse, USB wireless dongle and USB Hub. It also came with the OS pre-installed. I put on the latest version of Debian Wheezy. I set up the machine to boot into GUI automatically and downloaded geany with apt-get install geany.
I had tried in vain to get on RS Components list to order so I decided to jump ship and get a version from Maplins instead.
Maplins Bundle
If you want a Raspberry Pi then this seems a great choice. My Father-in-Law bought the bare system and had to buy all these parts and it cost him considerably more.
The quality of all the pars is reasonable. There is only a cheap HDMI cable, but since these work just as well as the expensive versions it is fine. There is no composite cable and this is something that my Father-in-Law would have needed.
The Bonus of getting the OS in the SD card with help many people get started, but I wanted to put on the same OS as Father-in-Law so we could be the same ( at least to start with). I also went for a wired system as the switch is a few feet away.
I tried Fedora 14 on a Class 10 16Gb card. This sort of worked. The card worked fine, and so did the OS booting into a GUI OS but the install failed me because I couldn't get the login to work
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