30 Jun
2012
30 Jun
'12
11:33 a.m.
Therefore today I bought a new USB keyboard, and an
optical mouse for
good measure. Cost me a total of =A37.50 (<=8010) from the local
supermarket. I'm powering the Pi from the USB media port on the TV
I'll bet that keyboard is unpleasant to use :-)....
However, given that you can get the bits farily cheaply (all apart form
the monitor [1]), I feel that there should be a marketed 'complete' Rpi,
conssiing of the board, keyboard, mouse, psu, OS (on SD card),
cables,etc. Of course it woudl cost more, but you wouldn't ahve to get
anything else to use it with a noraml TV or monitor.
[1] I was amazed top find a local pound shop were selling mains charagers
for the Ipod. They were wall-wart things with a USB ouptu socket, marked
5V, 1000mA (!). Intrigued I bought one and took it apart (screws under
the lable, yes, it can be opened for repair non-destructively). It's a
small SMPSU, all discrte components on an SRBP PCB. Given that I can't
even get the chopper transsitor for htat...
that it is using as a display! I can't remember
where the micro-usb
cable came from, but the HDMI cable was a poundshop jobbie some time
back. None of it is going to break the bank and I think that allowing
use of such commodity items is a Good Thing - even if people don't
So do I. I would not for a moment suggest that they should have used a
custom keybaord. And I can see why you might want just hte bare board --
for embedded use, as a replacemetn, etc. I jsut htink there should _also_
be a package deal with all the bits you need included.
-tony