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I'm sure it won't reach that.

Some info about the drivers, whats open source, closed, etc.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/592

Raspberry PI goes on general sale via RS and Farnell -> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918

Gotta stand in a order queue at RS and farnell is slow as hell :(

10 000 units sold in less than 2 hours, from what I understood. I wonder how long will it take for the next batch.

They claim that partnering with Farnell and RS means they can make them on-demand now. My order with Farnell will apparently ship 16/04/12. Too late for Revision, sadly. :(

The initial sale was a mess. I stayed up until 6am for the announcement and had no luck getting any decent responses from any of the two sellers. Bah.

HOWEVER - It's awesome to know the Model A has been bumped to 256MB of memory and they've enlisted two providers to manufacture systems on demand. This is the awesome part. Everyone will just have to be a bit more patient.

I hope this platform does make it in the scene - it's a static platform, chaps! We haven't had one quite like this for YEARS - certainly nothing as cheap and accessible!

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^^ sorry, some1 had to do it!

+1. could be a really great demo category... accessible to all too, at that ridiculous price.

It'll be the game changer we've all been waiting for. A flat platform where everyone has the same spec, bringing forth with it the good old days of WORLD RECORDS!!! WHOOOP!

My first project, when I finally get one, is of course a music disk!

Amen to that djh0ffman :)

I already know a couple of people who are planning on using it for demo purposes.

I think the whole situation is really crazy :D

It's a little low-powered 'hobbyist' computer, and I see a lot of people wanting to buy it thinking it'll be nice and easy to use, super portable and cheap - a serious replacement for their laptop or something. Somehow (and the company aren't to blame at all for this!) there's been a huge wave of hype over it.

I predict lots of cheap 2nd hand ones on ebay pretty soon ;)

Not to knock it at all - it looks great for the people who it's targeted at, and I'm sure it'll do well. And yeah, I agree that it could be an ideal demo platform too.

djhoffman: great, lets see if anyone can beat 640 metaballs!!

psonice: I think they kind of hit a spot there.
- Small, but still efficient and powerful and lots of features (LAN, USB Hub, SD, GPIO+, HDMI etc.) in comparison to Arduino
- Much cheap(er) than Arduino (at 35$, especially considering it has LAN and can connect to a WiFi / Bluetooth stick / basically any USB device)
- Easy(ier) to work with than Arduino ("Standard" Linux, Screen output, possible on-device development etc.)

Yay for fixed platform btw.

rare: yep, agreed. I've seen people posting that they'll buy one to replace a windows media centre PC though because it'll be smaller, cheaper and silent, that's not quite the same market :D

I'd like to try building a camera from one of these at some point. They look about ideal, and a custom-built camera could be all kinds of fun.

Smash: thanks, i haven't heard the tune from that in ages. It's one of my all-time favourite demo tunes :)

after the initial rush is over, I'm buying at least two - not to use as a computer, but as an arduino without the usual suck that is microcontrollers. hand-cooked domotica on a decent linux platform is teh awesome.

too bad my ikea oven doesnt have an externally controllable interface (supermarket -> oven pizza -> turn on oven through cell phone -> home, oven warm! how cool is that??)

If you have a gas oven, about as cool as russian roulette (get home, open door, pray, flick lightswitch ;)

The rose-tinted nostalgic in me loves the idea of Raspberry Pi entries being handed to competition organiser types on bootable SD cards! Oh yes!

Hihi. 512b Bootsector intros on GHz machines and GB SD cards are kind of funny. But a bootable intro would indeed be cool!

Also I think it'll help with compatibility if demos are provided as disk images - none of this "requires kernel 3.x.x and this library and all that bollocks".

Oh the possibilities! Oh the slight ambiguity in regards to size coding.

psonice, having a gas oven for use is like using an atari falcon for your main computer. it's possible, but it sucks.

I was going to do a nazi joke here, but good taste got the better of me for once ;)

Actually I have a gas oven. Moved house a few weeks back, old place had electric, this one is gas. First time I used it I burnt a pie to fuck in about 2 minutes, but now i'm used to it I reckon it's at least as good (maybe better) than electric. It's more like having a high-end workstation, because the gas control is instant making it a lot more responsive :)

Cooking on gas is nice, but an oven? Had one in a shared flat and everything came of raw at the front and burnt at the back...

Did you try to make a Raspber... Sorry, yeah, bad joke, I'm shutting up already... ;)

Gas for hob, electric for ovens, WIN.

rare: you know what, i have a feeling that it WAS a raspberry pie! Raspberry and apple or something like it anyway. And yep, not that hot, but burnt on top. I know why now: it goes at full burn for a few minutes at the start to warm the oven up. Put anything in too early, it gets burnt. Wait for it to settle though, and it cooks more evenly than our old electric one (we had to turn pizzas round during cooking or one corner would burn).

Can we discuss the best wash settings for white shirts next? :D