Introduction and Raspberry Pi

[LargePig]

Hi,

I got into bitcoins recently, for fun really, and also to pay for a VPN service.
I don't have very many, nearly 2  

This weekend I built Armory 0.82.4 for Raspberry Pi following FiloSottile's gist https://gist.github.com/3646033 with some tweaks for Raspbian.
I now have my 2012-08-16 Wheezy Raspbian Pi running Armory 0.82.4 as cold storage for my meagre 2 BTC and thought I would share the build to save people a few hours.
It's not likely anyone will trust using it but it's here on my SkyDrive http://sdrv.ms/O8vBgw. I've tested creating a wallet, 'printing' a pdf backup, saving a watch only wallet and signing an offline transaction, all worked fine.

I figure what's the possible harm I could be intending to commit with software intended to run on a computer with no internet connection...

"First post ever and this guy links to some dodgy software..."... I know, I know.

LP

[Luno]

Nice contribution, a DIY wallet card! +1

[lakeluke]

Where r our brave souls, who will test this???

[LargePig]

Thanks Luno

  Nobody trusts me 

Not even a little surprised though, almost didn't bother posting it.

[caveden]

You post it at 13:30 and then complains that nobody has tested it yet at 15:15? You expected reviews and such in less than 2h?

I'm particularly interested in trying to set up a raspberry pi wallet, but first of all I'll have to acquire one, what apparently isn't that fast,

[LargePig]

You post it at 13:30 and then complains that nobody has tested it yet at 15:15? You expected reviews and such in less than 2h?

Not at all, I was only joking  

It's a perfect use of a RPi, I hope you manage to source one soon!

[Panoramix]

I have one laying around and have been thinking about doing the same thing. Just never came around actually doing it. You know how it goes
I'm watching this thread and will try this out as soon as I find the time.

[aneutronic]

Nice.   +1

[rpgreseller]

The Raspberry is exciting tech. I bought my niece a computer last year and dropped about $800.
A Raspberry would have been a much cooler investment, and then I'd be forcing Linux on to the little ones.

[LargePig]

Yeah, I think a Pi would be a great starter computer, great for learning Linux and if you do anything really stupid to your installation you're only 5 minutes away from a re-imaged SD card.

[meva]

Sorry for the stupid question... I'm a noob when it comes to linux... How do I install the tarball?
every walk though I try says to go to the directory where extracted and do a "./configure" but there is no such file...

Cheers,

[BetterBitcoinUp]

This looks interesting. Don't have the time right now.