The Raspberry Pi has always caught my attention, however I hadn’t thought hard at the possibilities I would find useful. After finally being tempted enough to get a Bitcoin cold storage wallet going, this was finally the time.
I went to a local shop to pickup the Model B+, barebones, as I had a microSD card prior. After having an excruciating time trying to download Raspbian due to my ISP having an issue (of all nights, as they’re quite good normally), I was finally booted into it.
Next steps for me would be to:
- Get DooM running on it
- Look into emulation frontends
- Test hardware such as USB gamepads + external HDDs (since the model B+ now provides up to 1.2A)
- Throw it into my C64x barebones case, of which I haven’t used yet for 4 years
- Oh yea, grab another SD and create a cold storage BTC wallet
I’ll be sure to update this post as I learn, tweak, and (maybe) solder more with this awesome little PC.