I know the raspberry Pi is picky in regards to power. It needs to be at least 700 mA (http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware) or you will have strange crashes. I've been using one with 1A power cable and its been solid. A class 10 SD card will give you a quicker boot time and r/w performance. I hear a powered USB Hub is great if you need more than two ports or you keyboard or mouse are drawing too much power. (Probably crash if it's power related as previously.) Not necessary, but I love the cheaper little plastic cases from adafruit. Also love the Wi-Fi USB adapter, but not necessary unless you are doing some Wi-Fi projects. Jason Reynolds On Sunday, April 7, 2013, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:21:48PM -0500, Susan wrote: > > Quick question: Without purchasing an entire "kit," what's the minimum > necessities for getting rolling? I'm thinking: > > > > HMDI monitor & cable > > USB mouse > > USB keyboard > > 4GB SD card > > power supply > > & ??? > > Check your current monitor (or even TV) for the kinds of inputs it > has and use either the S-Video or HDMI or DVI (via HDMI-to-DVI cable > [1]) . You don't really need the display - once you set up the > networking you can connect it to the home router and connect over ssh. > Plus by not using the display you'll have more memory available for > the OS and applications. > > Make sure you get the fastest card you can afford, maybe even an > industrial SD-card (that has SLC and not MLC, thus better endurance). > > > Please add to my list of absolute minimum "essentials" & please > > let me know if any psu, with the correct specs, of course, will > > do... Adafruit sells a psu which they bill as "Linux compatible," > > or something like that, but I can't imagine that's much more than > > marketing hype. > > Any modern phone USB charger would do. I'm not a EE, but what they > claim about their 5.25V PSU being better for a RPI as the voltage > won't drop below 5 as you connect more peripherals and accessories > seems reasonable. I have used mine with a HTC phone charger and I > just got a couple of Adafruit chargers as the little chargers get into > bags when traveling and then sometimes they don't make it back home ;) > > Cheers, > florin > > 1: > http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10231&cs_id=1023104&p_id=2661&seq=1&format=2 > > -- > Sent from my other microwave oven. > -- jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130408/254b91d7/attachment.html>