In the four weeks that I’ve been stuck at home, I haven’t learned anything new. Even old stuff I’ve abandoned; I put both of my guitars and my bass back in their cases and haven’t touched them in months. This week, I decided that since my job has to do with software systems, I may as well learn something new while stuck at home. I purchased a Raspberry Pi 4 kit from Amazon for $99. I got the kit with 4GB of RAM.
Here is the actual computer board. It’s smaller than I thought it would be.
It took me about 15 minutes to put together. There were three tiny heat sinks to stick on a few of the IC’s. That took the longest time. I have it connected to an old Visio 720p TV via HDMI. Let see if I can get it to work.
Mainly I want to learn Python, plus maybe build a few hardware projects. My staff analyst took Python in school and has written a few cool tools. Me, I learned BASIC and Pascal in high school, and LISP and C++ in college. Need to learn a more modern language.
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System has been installed from the included SD card and the computer is connected to my router. It’s now updating the system. I think I’m going to do a keyboard/mouse swap with another computer so I can have wireless input devices on the Raspberry Pi computer. It looks weird with my huge Corsair gaming keyboard attached to it.
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System updated and everything is running. This website on Chromium on Raspberry Pi.
Life with chronic diseases 