The first thing that I did with the Raspberry Pi was install the flash drive stuff on it which took about all of class. I had no trouble installing the raspbian operating system on it. It didn’t really look like it did in the powerpoint but it all functioned correctly so here’s a picture of that now!

So, to be honest, I was kind of confused if you were saying if just that was or wasn’t enough. Anyways, I decided I would try to download another program for a different function. I chose to do OpenElec! I chose this because I thought it was really cool and I wanted to see if it would actually work. I definitely thought that all of this would be much easier. I was expecting for their to be some type of like shop where I could essentially just download it onto the Pi. Needless to say, I was thrown off guard pretty quickly. I ended up looking up a tutorial to help. At first, I was only using tutorials for Windows and I was using the Mac. The Windows tutorials instruct to also download the Win32 Disk Imager. I followed them, and every time I tried to open Win32, it would not work. Eventually, I noticed I needed to use a Mac tutorial. The tutorials had me opening my terminal and doing diskutil stuff that confused me. I kept trying to follow along and it kept failing. I soon got my sister (who is actually in school for this type of thing) to try to help figure out what I was doing wrong. She had me type in random stuff that I didn’t completely understand and made me wait forever. Finally, it worked! I plugged in the Pi and the program was up!

There might have been an easier way to do it, but to put a movie on I ended up just downloading one to a flash drive. I chose to put Step Brothers on the drive because that was the first movie that came to my sister and I’s mind. I plugged the drive into the Pi and opened the file under movies and here is the result.

So I’m actually pissed because wordpress won’t let me upload a video since I’m not premium. However, as you can see, a video is playing and my pi is plugged in to all the right ports. I’ve decided that this kind of works as a portable media player. Since I can pre download movies and stuff onto it, it’s definitely more convenient than carrying around a bunch of DVDs for sure.