This past Monday, February 16th, I went to the Lower East Side to a store recommended by my Facebook friend. The name is of the store is Tinkershere. My friend told me that they not only sold Raspberry Pi 2, but that last he saw on the previous Friday, they had at least 9 still available.
I left an hour before they opened to give myself time to get there and find the place. I arrived 15 minutes before the opening time and waiting. The front store gate was down when I got there. As the minutes ticked by with no one showing up I was beginning to think that no one would come due to it being President’s Day. The opening time of 12 noon came and went with no one coming forth to open the store. I decided to wait a few more minutes. At 12:05 a cute young lady came by and asked if I was waiting to get into the store. I said yes and she asked that I give her a few minutes while she opens up. Not one minute later I was in the store.
The store was pretty big for a small store. But it was packed full of neat gizmos stuff. I immediately grabbed what looked like an silver ashtray but was in fact a magnetic tray in which to hold screws, nuts and bolts. I asked about the Raspberry Pi 2 and she had them in stock. She also had Pi cases and power plugs. She also showed me already made micro sd cars with Raspian on them, but I did not buy those.
I purchased the Pi, Pi case, power cord and power transformer and rushed home as I needed to go to the bathroom and Tinkershere ‘did not have one’. I doubt that was the case, but I got home by 1:00 PM and started creating the Raspberry OS.
I soon learned that the Pi would not boot the previous Raspberry Pi B OS. So I had to start from scratch. I downloaded Raspian, format the sd card, copied Raspian to the sd card and boot the Pi 2. I added SSH and made the Pi run headless. Then disconnected the HDMI cabel keyboard and mouse while leaving the ethernet cable attached. Once it ran headless, I turned it off and put the Pi near the Linksys Router.
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I added the following software to this installation: MySQL, PHP, PhpMyAdmin, Apache, SFTP, and WordPress Files. After creating a new user I created a new MySql database for use with WordPress. I populated the WordPress config file and WordPress was up and running. This Pi2 is a lot faster than my original Pi. It runs WordPress well. I have to figure out what else to do with this Pi2 computer.
