Do Something!

From very early on I've enjoyed creating things, building things.

On Wednesday I purchased a Raspberry PI 3 from Amazon.   It was delivered Thursday night.   Within just a few minutes, I had this puppy up and running! :-)

On Friday I purchased a 23 inch monitor, I had originally bought a 7 inch monitor for the initial hook up.  I also bought some hobby electronic parts from Gigaparts - breadboard, LEDs, resistors, etc.   I did so to bring up the LED version of Hello World.   By the end of the day I had my little Pi blinking LEDS using a Python program, pretty nice.

On Saturday I wanted to burn a new NOOBs micro SD card.  I downloaded NOOBS, formatted the SD card, copied the files, and now I have a second SD card to boot the Pi with.

Secondly, I wanted to have the Pi run my Hello World LED program upon power up.   So I googled the steps to have my python program run upon boot.   Not bad for a day and a half, Pi now boots and runs my Python program upon power on!

Find the sweet little program here, my first Pi application .

Next up, well you'll have to wait and see, :-) :-)

Inspired by Live Your Legend

Inspired.

Recently I've rediscovered Ted Talks and would highly recommend these two:

Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are and Ricardo Semler: Radical Wisdom .

Watching these two initiated my download of the TedTalks app and listening to talks on my way to work.   A couple of weeks ago I listened to How To Find Work You Love .   This talk is a compelling talk which prompted me to sign up to a news letter from Live Your Legend .

The Live Your Legend toolkit recommends that to realize your passion that you get your passion out into the world by starting a blog.

This is that blog.

Jeff Goode