My Raspberry-things: 2.- Opening the package.

So, opening the package will not take a long time, because there is nothing more than the Raspberry Pi® in it.

The Raspberry in all its glory.

There is nothing to see here, people.

As the guys that developed it describe it: "The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming." [The Raspberry guys]

Yeah... used by kids...

Of course there are some "combos" that include the power supply and the NOOBS SD card (this one will be documented later on this blog). As I mentioned in the "Introduction", Raspberry Pi Foundation is a registered charity, so if you have the money, purchase it full loaded as they have "starter kits" (the charity does not apply to me, so basically I am making free advertisement for them, I am that cool!).

I was lucky to have this cover (for the time, because for some projects it is useless).

There are two models of the Raspberry, the model "A" and the model "B", basically the differences between them are:

Model A	Model B
SDRAM 256 MB	SDRAM 512 MB
1 USB 2.0 port	2 USB 2.0 ports
No ethernet port	10/100 Mbps ethernet port
300 mA (1.5W) power rating	700 mA (3.5W) power rating
Lower cost	Higher cost
Mostly unavailabe	Mostly available

So, what else do we need to be able to use the thing? Answer: anything you can plug-in to a PC via USB, and then cross your fingers for a driver availability for it (or develop it by yourself), lucky us there are a lot of devices with drivers for Linux (oh, did I mention that the weapon-of-choice operative system for the Pi is Linux?). For starters, we need a keyboard and a mouse, piece of cake, then we have some options to connect it to a display: