[raspberry-vi] Re: Introduction: or: everything you never wanted to know and them some!
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:12:51 +0000
Hello Cheryl,
Welcome to the list! Sounds like you came to the right place. There
are close to thirty members now. Some are more vociferous than others.
I have to be forcibly shut up at times.
There are quite a few of us who are already messing about with Raspis (I
prefer what my screen-reader says when I say 'Raspis' to 'Pis'), and
some who are yet to take the plunge.
It's not the intention of the list or the web page we have created to go
with it to take traffic away from the main Foundation web pages, not
least because there's a huge amount of good advice there. But the
specific purpose is to share experience as visually impaired users.
Currently we connect with SSH from another machine. Go to:
http://www.raspberryvi.org/
and follow the link to the 'Getting Started' page for details of how to
do this.
We don't have a screen-reader running actually on the Raspi yet but
we're working on it. However brltty does work nicely if you're a
Braille user.
As to what you can do with it, you get out what you put in. It's not
exactly Windows or Mac but packs enough power to do some interesting
stuff but you will need to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty
to achieve much.
I have two Raspi Model Bs. One is currently streaming internet radio
for me, which is useful as I am in a poor area for DAB, the other is my
experimental platform and I have bricked it so often the memory card
gets warm from the friction of pulling it out and re-flashing it.
I'm also working on a chunk of code to connect it to a Maplin
multi-meter with a serial interface and read the measurements with tts.
Lots of fun. I need to get out more.
Stick around and let us know wen you've decided. More advice on what to
buy is available, just ask. The first piece of advice I would give is
to buy direct from Farnell, to avoid the reseller's mark-up, which seems
to be anything from 20% to 30%.
You can buy cases for under a tenner. My site of choice for buying
stuff is:
http://www.modmypi.co.uk/
There is a lady there called Jean who is very helpful and receptive to
enquiries from us.
Mike
On 01/03/2013 18:49, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hi all.
> My name is Cheryl as I guess you can see from my signature. Besides I'm sure
> I probably know some of the people on this list at least by name and email
> postings.
>
> I am totally blind and use speech and/or braille with my computers. I've had
> experience with DOS (guess I can still count that!), a few flavors of linux,
> Mac OS from Tiger on through Mountain Lion, and Windows (xp and 7). I've
> also used cell phones and iOS devices (iPhone and iPad). But I haven't done
> anything yet with a raspberry pi. I'm considering getting one and wanted to
> learn about the process: to get answers to questions like Are there any
> accessories or enclosures or anything else that I should buy along with the
> pi? How do I get the OS on an sd card and what size sd card? do I need to
> plug it into something with video even though I don't need video? what can I
> do with it once I get it up and running - I know it will be linux but I'm
> wondering with the ram especially what my limitations will be? I'm not asking
> anybody to answer those questions now; i'm just letting you know why I joined
> this list. I want to learn what I need to know before buying and then have
> some
s
> upport while getting it up and running and then hopefully be able to learn
> more myself and help and encourage and commiserate with others when they get
> their raspberry pies (hmm, what is the plural of pi?) I do already know I
> want the B model with ethernet. Of course I know I'm not going to depend just
> on the list for answers but also am going to google and look at websites for
> information but I think this list, with people who have already worked with
> this device, is going to be a big help and a lot of fun.
>
> Oh yeah, I was supposed to write an introduction not a book - right? So I'll
> stop here and let you all know when my autobiography comes out - not!
>
--
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982
'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's Razor
Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom:
http://nvda-project.org/
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