Raspberry Pi and ARM Linux Devices - NEWLUG - July 2012

I recently gave a presentation about the Raspberry Pi.  I had received it in the mail the day before this presentation, so I hadn't even booted it up yet, but I was excited enough to tell others about it, as well as other Linux hardware projects that rely on ARM hardware.
The video is here:

If you are interested in some of the devices I mentioned, I'd suggest taking a look at this excellent compendium of small Linux devices by Raymii.org. As well, here are some pictures of my Raspberry Pi booting Debian Linux. I was unable to get it working at the meeting because I wrote the image to the SD card's partition instead of the device itself.

When writing an image to a SD card, here is a good rule of thumb:

If your device name has a number in it, you're probably doing it wrong. 

Take it from someone with experience.

Ubuntu Quickly - NEWLUG - July 2012

Ubuntu Quickly is an excellent application development platform for Ubuntu Linux. Recently, Tim Bolz gave a presentation on Quickly to NEWLUG. The video is here:
The slides that Tim used are also available:

Quickly programming from NEWLUG

Opening up retro cartridges without special tools

I was getting quite frustrated with my old Sega Genesis carts until I found this video.  It was quite helpful in helping me get them open.

NEWLUG - June meeting video - Linux Games

Here is the video from June's NEWLUG (NorthEast Wisconsin Linux Users Group) meeting. The subject was "Linux Games".
Here are the slides that go along with the Linux Games presentation:

Linux games from NEWLUG

There was also a brief "Command of the Month" talk, so we separated that into a separate video.

Google I/O Livestream

Let's do this!

Light Table : An IDE for the future?

Light Table is a new IDE that is currently on Kickstarter, and was also recently funded by YCombinator. The future is bright for this IDE, and it will be interesting to see how it evolves as development continues on the project. Here are some videos that help explain the project:

MagPi! -- A Raspberry Pi Magazine

I've got to hand it to Raspberry Pi. Their community support is awesome. Check out MagPi, the first community supported Raspberry Pi online magazine.

Open publication - Free publishing - More community