LinuxCon North America/CloudOpen North America

The Raspberry Pi was designed as an inexpensive device to teach kids Python. It's become a device of choice for hardware tinkerers and hackers of all sorts of experience levels to integrate a fully functional Linux computer into their projects. I'll give you some inspiration with a few project ideas. Then I'll start with the basic, most important Pi tricks, like making sure you have the right SD card and that you've chosen the best distro for the job you intend to do up through some more challenging problems, like what happens when you need to build a cross-compiler or a custom kernel. Not that those things are crucial to having fun with a Pi, and whether you're new to the board or already used it to power your home automation system, you'll learn a few new ideas in this session.