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crackerjack Senior Member  Joined: 11/07/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 164 |
For those who may be interested, the Raspberry Pi (of which there has been much talk, and a fair amount of hype), went on sale today... See http://www.raspberrypi.org/ for details. For those who don't know what it is, you can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Cheers... |
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djuqa Guru  Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
And for those of you that haven't heard the news, they sold out within a couple hours. [quote=CRN.com.au]RS Components and Premier Farnell, the licensed manufacturers, sold out of the Raspberry Pi within hours of its release – so you'll have to be patient while the team gets the next batch together. [/quote] Although further stocks arriving SOON. VK4MU MicroController Units |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
Wow. These things just keep getting better. The raspberrypi web page is lacking, but the wiki fills in the gaps. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Raspberry Pi demands crashes website And "The Raspberry Pi is available at either Premier Farnell or RS Components. Note: both websites are currently experiencing heavy load, and international customers may find that Raspberry Pi is not available yet in their territory. Please be patient, and consider checking back in a few hours' time." Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3654 |
Looks like about a 2 month lead time if you've not already got a confirmed date. Seems to be that no actual deliveries at element14/Farnell or RS have yet occurred. More hype than pie? John |
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| Olimex Senior Member Joined: 02/10/2011 Location: BulgariaPosts: 226 |
I do not believe this, this is what is written on their web page: Although we are still waiting for units to arrive from China, you can start buying the Raspberry Pi today.
so they never ran this 10K batch, and now you can pre-order from Farnell and RS-Components and wait 60 days, hoping that they will finally manage to arrange the manufacturing. it's pity as it all seems now to look like cheap advertising for Broadcom for their processor. (the man behind this project - Mr. Raspberry Pi is working for Broadcom) They said they will produce complete linux computer with HDMI for $25, but they obviously have no any manufacturing background nor they every did production in any scale, and 10K unit production is not so easy as they think. It was really funny to read on their forum how they intend to manufacture the boards in UK but the "import taxes" were holding them off, to build just tester for such board which to load the linux image and do the functional test for series of 10K pcs will cost about 200K GBP so they will not fit in their budged just to test the boards in UK. $25 is the Arduino board price tag, releasing board with 256MB RAM and ARM on 700 Mhz at this price have no business logic/background - this you can achieve for board with 8bit micro or you have to not include re-seller margin and to work on really tight budged. I don't say this is not possible, there are Bit-tornet loaders on Deal Extreme for $30 which run linux but there the processor is smaller and with no HDMI, so if the chinese can't do it for $25 I don't see how UK based company will arrange the production. The board which came close to these specs is the BeagleBone for $89 which TI sells to selected developers at cost for $50-60 Raspberry PI so far just makes press releases and sold few boards for 1000 GBP each on e-bay, they had to release this 10K batch in December, January, February, end of February and now it looks like the earliest release date through Farnell is April .. 1st 
I really wanted to buy one at Embedded but had no chance. To add on top of this the closed source code for the Broadcom processor, this board will have never mainstream linux support like Beagle and other boards which are with completely open source drivers. |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
The price is so unreal! OpenPandora is a better unit but, unfortunately, hard to build. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3654 |
hmm, I think they will actually have to make and sell them at that price as Farnell wouldn't be likely to take orders otherwise. The part about manufacture and import taxes, sadly, is true over here. Makes no sense, but then many taxes make no sense. John |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Actually, they have no(t enough) money! So, they need to sell before. To do that (to put pressure on the buyer), you just have to change your web page from dynamic to static  . Then, when money are enough, they will pay the Chinese.
It is so similar to another board... -------------------- Actually, this model of pre-ordering is used with success by the Blender Foundation when they intend to make tutorials on DVDs or open movies. But they do not depend on third party organizations to have their job done. They have full support from their community but also they get money from donations, sponsorship and other activities. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| Olimex Senior Member Joined: 02/10/2011 Location: BulgariaPosts: 226 |
I can bet that there will be no $25 with the specs they anounced first! We all saw how the $25 linux computer transformed to $35 linux computer now Farnell and RS component keep this price tag, but when you attempt to order you got $20 "handling" charge which is add to your order, so it become $55 without the shipping, so again very close to the BeagleBone price :) the $25 price is not realistic and they used this shocking low price anouncement just to get in all news |
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| djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
It sounds like a lot of "Pi in the Sky" I think price will rapidly change. Too many projects have come un-stuck because of the reality of margins over the cost of components and manufacturing. VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3654 |
They're offering the Model B which they said would be $35. I've not seen Farnell charge $20 handling fee, and people on a Linux list here weren't saying that Farnell are - so I reckon that's not happening. The big issue for many people is that there's yet more delay. John |
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| jebz Regular Member  Joined: 13/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 79 |
The price does seem unreal but if you compare it to any of the mass produced routers it's not much different. In fact without the case and any included user documentation or support the price is more comparable. This won't be for everyone but it will find a home in some applications. |
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| Ray B Senior Member Joined: 16/02/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 219 |
The PicAxe Forum are starting to get into the Ras-Pi on following link http://www.picaxeforum.co.uk/showthread.php?20698-Connect-PI CAXE-210-via-radio-to-Raspberry-Pi Cheers RayB from Perth WA |
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| djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
New lowered prices for Aussies buying a Raspberry Pi Methinks demand has slowed a little! VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| robarino Newbie  Joined: 15/03/2012 Location: SwedenPosts: 24 |
Personally the Pi doesnt do anything for me. It does not have the convenient pins of say an arduino format that you can throw into a project. I already have a bunch of computers lying around why do I need another? Can I plug in servos and motors easily? Can I read voltage and make decisions based on those readings without spending more money on addons? I prefer the Olimex approach. I do think what R-Pi is doing is admirable though! |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Hi @robarino, Exactly, what means for you Arduino socket (not what means in general)? Vasi Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| robarino Newbie Joined: 15/03/2012 Location: SwedenPosts: 24 |
@vasi I guess I don't need the arduino layout per se but I the lack of easy to use ADC means the pi cannot be easily used with my sensors. The Pi is designed to be a computer I think. It actually makes me wonder whether the line is very blurred now between a microcontroller and a computer. I just don't need that much power... I have a Fez Hydra and that is plenty fast enough ;) I am even happier running BASIC on the Duinomite...in 1 color! Gosh there is an awesome feeling when that basic boots up in 1 second with its greeting. I have only had the thing a few days but I LOVE IT. It is not without its problems though. I wonder if the maximite is more stable? If I want HDMI out and OPENGL etc I would just use my computer :) |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3654 |
Do you mean your DM is not stable? Tell us more :) John |
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| robarino Newbie Joined: 15/03/2012 Location: SwedenPosts: 24 |
@Johns I like the duinomite a lot and it cost me about the same as a set of shoe laces. Some things do not work though and the documentation is all over the place. I can tell you that one moment the frequency counter works and another it does not (for instance). I also think there are some features that are needed. All in all though I love this platform and it is a lot of fun. I wonder though if the MM is more reliable (in terms of documentation and reliability of basic commands etc...). I have tried 3.1 but the pin assignments are all messed up (for example).... |
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