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Raspberry Pi Kit arrives

Once I learned that Mathematica and the Wolfram Language are supported on the Raspberry Pi , I could not resist getting it. I started looking at Raspberry Pi at the MarkShed, could not resist the 2.8 touch screen at Adafruit. The photographs below show the components I selected. This is like my fourth order with Adafruit (Arduino kits) and I’ve been impressed with the quality of the components supplied.

I’m interested in using Mathematica as a way to create, display, control, and interact with hardware. Some of the projects that I’m thinking about include:

  • Clock radio modification to add Internet music streaming
  • Audio function generator
  • Impedance analyzer using the AD5933 Impedance Converter Network Analyzer eval board
  • Interface with DSP eval boards for signal processing applications
  • Interface with a Smartfusion SoC eval board to explore FPGA and analog sampling applications
  • USB development board for sensor applications

My custom selected Raspberry Pi kit as received

Raspberry PI Model B Top view

Raspberry PI Model B bottom view with NOOBS 1.3 SD Card installed

Adafruit Raspberry Pi case top and bottom part top view

Adafruit Raspberry Pi case top and bottom part bottom view

Adafruit Raspberry Pi case showing analog video port openings

Adafruit Raspberry Pi case showing power and SD Cart openings

Adafruit Raspberry Pi case showing HDMI opening

Adafruit PiTFT mini kit 320x240 2.8" TFT Touch screen for the Raspberry Pi with headers front side view

Adafruit PiTFT mini kit 320x240 2.8" TFT Touch screen for the Raspberry Pi with headers front side view of the board and back side view of the TFT screen

Adafruit PiTFT mini kit 320x240 2.8" TFT Touch screen for the Raspberry Pi with headers back side view of the board

Adafruit PiTFT mini kit 320x240 2.8" TFT Touch screen for the Raspberry Pi with installed headers top view of the board

Adafruit PiTFT mini kit 320x240 2.8" TFT Touch screen for the Raspberry Pi with installed headers top view of the board

Raspberry Pi in the Adafruit case with USP keyboard cable, USB Wi-FI module (not in view), HDMI cable, power cable, SD Card, and cobbler breakout cable all plugged in for fit check

Rasberry Pi in Adafriut case with cables

Miniature Wi-FI 802.11 a/g/n Module kit for the Raspberry Pi to view

Miniature Wi-FI 802.11 a/g/n Module kit for the Raspberry Pi bottom view

Adafruit Assembled Pi Cobbler Breakout Cable for the Raspberry Pi cable view.

Adafruit Assembled Pi Cobbler Breakout Cable for the Raspberry Pi Breakout board top view