If you've ordered Raspberry Pi, but haven't tried hacking on it yet or if you're interested and don't know which ARM board to buy then this workshop is exactly for you. I'll attempt to bring enough boards so everyone can try out. I am going to mainly focus on Debian/Raspbian in this workshop.

When & where: 8. November 17:00 at EIT ICT Labs Master School co-location center

Halp I am lost! Call +46 704618918

Topics:

• Anatomy of Raspberry Pi, Cubietruck, WiFi routers and other embedded boards

• Writing images to memory card

• Picking the right distribution eg. Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, OpenWrt to run on the board

• About embedded interfaces: GPIO, UART, I²C, SPI, etc

• Connecting to serial console

• Getting around on Debian command line

• Setting up network interfaces

• Gaining secure shell access to the board

• Downloading stuff on command line

• Running Python web server on the board to communicate with outside world

• What is cross-compiling and when it makes sense to do that

• Flashing internal Flash, dangers within and recovering from bad flash

• Version control basics, cloning a GitHub repository to the board

See you on Saturday ;)