Building new Raspberry Pi Model B+

Buying the Raspberry Pi Model B+

I ordered the 512MB Raspberry Pi Model B+ Project Board on 7/14/2014, I was lucky somehow I got free shipping code by default, otherwise it cost $9.99 to ship to California with their "Super Saver Shipping" option.  I got the package on the 19th in a padded brown envelope.

Unpacking the Raspberry Pi Model B+

Raspberry Pi box front

Raspberry Pi box back

Raspberry Pi unwrapped

As small as the iPhone5 screen

4xUSB + Fast Ethernet

Micro USB for power supply, HDMI, AV jack

Micro SD card

Building my case with spare LEGO

Lego case base

Fitting the board into lego case

Finished Lego Case

Install NOOBS on SD

Getting Started with NOOBS

Hooking it up

• Keyboard (Dusty DELL generic 101-keyboard>
• Power supply (Apple iPhone/iPod power supply fit the requirement*)
• Micro USB cable as power cable
• Ethernet cable
• HDMI cable
• Micro SD card (8GB+)

* Power supply rated at 5V dc, and a minim current of 600-1800mA.

Turn it on the first time

Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool (raspi-config) will be launched automatically after the first boot. It can be launched manually by the command

sudo raspi-config

Change Local

4 > I1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Change Timezone

4 > I2 > US > Pacific Ocean

Change Keyboard Layout

4 > I3 > Dell 101-key PC > English (US) > default > No compose key > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace = terminate the X server

Set hostname

8 > A2 > [newhostname]

Enable SSH

8 > A4 > <Enable>

Change Password

2 > [new password]

Update

8 > A7