Christmas comes early part 2 (UPDATE)

Turns out I had a "duh" moment.
I don't need to get the kit to do all that, there's GPIO pins on the RaspPi!!!!

Just buy a USB - breakout cable and thats all you'll need!

The good people at MCM let me redo my order, so here's the final order:

A quick explanation of some of the "not so common parts":

• Pi USB cable - Just a TTL break out cable - Connect to the GPIO pins (tutorial coming soon), plug the other end in to your computer and you're good to go! Eliminates the need for the keyboard + mouse + video output
• Pi UPS - What use is a security system, if you don't execute it properly? Imagine a burglar breaks in and disconnects your pi from the power source. BOOM. Your house is emptied out. Thanks to this Pi UPS, if my mains are disconnected, I still have some juice to alert me of the same and to take screenshots of the perp to be analyzed by CSI (cue the music)
• Kinobo (Screenshot below) - A good quality USB microphone. Why a USB mic you ask? Raspberry pi has no audio input! HOWEVER, do note, Wolfson Audio (the famous audio company) just released a plug and play sound card solely for the rasp pi!!!! That is super exciting news, since it was one of the downsides of the pi. Here's a link for the same http://www.adafruit.com/products/1761?gclid=CIWRkqDs0r0CFeMF7AodnhYAEw . Since I dont need fancy sound processing (right now), I'll pass on that and save me the 20$ :)

Also, note : I added my coupon codes in the screenshot, in case you wanna save some money ;)

Don't know how long they'll be active though!

Lastly, some super exciting news. Shubhro Saha and Charlie Marsh at Princeton have developed an excellent project for audio control on the pi!!! So far I've only browsed through the code, and so far, it looks GREAT! I'll be using it next week, so stay tuned for the details and testing.  Until then, here's the link to their project:

http://jasperproject.github.io/

Goodnight!