The Embedded Angle

Well  it   finally arrived. Just got it from my local supplier. Now what?  The official site describes it very clearly. Firstly Raspbian must be prepared. I'll give a quick summary with the shell commands and some screens. The following pair of commands must be issued in order to get the new camera option in the raspi-config menu: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get update pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade The second one can be replaced with the more powerful: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I actually typed all three in a row before realizing (after googling the difference and reading through the ubuntu forums mostly) that the last one is an extended variant of the update , and it might trigger installing new packages upon existing dependencies. To be absolutely positive that nothing is missing I even updated the firmware according to a procedure from a book I'm reviewing at the moment (the book is  Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents an

Part I - The Problem What is it and where it came from?  In the first place I wanted to have a Raspberry Pi connected to my TV, two rooms away from the wireless router. Nothing too fancy and unusual. But after started Raspbian I found out that the browser(s) couldn't load a single page, hence I couldn't expect any streaming capabilities from a media center. In the default wpa_gui  tool (there's a link on the Raspbian's desktop you know) I could see my wireless network listed but the signal was weak and connection was breaking up constantly. I immediately blamed it on the Wi-Pi, but what if I was wrong? Maybe here is the place where I have to make a small introduction to  Wi-Pi . My initial intention was for this whole post to be dedicated to it. I wanted to glorify it and say how fit and useful it is, just because it is another product from the guys that brought us the fabulous Raspberry Pi. The problem with the reception reminded me to be more thoughtful and do