Thanks for all the responses everyone! I definitely understand how to wire up the GPIO side now. My only remaining question is how to connect the other side to a power source. Any suggestions there? Do I need a particular power source? Does the gnd need to go just a gnd surface? Thanks a lot for th...

This may interest you: http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/co ... able_soon/

Basically someone made a very handy board which attaches to your Pi GPIO and accepts any 9-36V input and outputs 1.5A @ 5V!!!

I was following the directions posted here to set up a web server. When I got to the step to update the firmware using rpi-update it successfully completed without errors, but when I went to do a restart my board did not boot back up. I now get 6 flashes from the OK led which meas start.elf did not ...