It is world famous now. It is a dirt cheap ARM-based computer running Linux. Just bought one for myself. I installed Raspbian Wheezy which can be downloaded from here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. It is the recommended download for newbies so I went straight to it. I used Win32DiskImager and formatted an SD card. Installed it on the Raspberry Pi and it was good to go.

I definitely recommend buying a case which makes it a lot more fun to play with it. I also bought a 3.5” display. I think small screen goes well with the small device. If I’m going to plug something in to my 23” LED monitor, I’d prefer it to be my desktop. The display I bought can be found on Amazon. It doesn’t come with a power supply so you also have to buy a 12V – 2A DC power supply. I also needed a male – male RCA cable to connect the display to the Pi.

The result is the smallest computer I have ever had:

I hope I can do something useful with it too.