Raspberry pi on sale.

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My Pi has been sat in it's box pretty much since it got here.

Fired it up to try RaspBMC RC3 the other day but other than that it's not grabbed me :(

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AmiNeo said:
It was designed by a lecturer at Chambridge Uni to encourage people, especially kids with little of their own money, to get into programming without having to worry about messing up or having to buy expensive hardware.

David Braeben had a hand in it's development too ;)
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I don't think either of those statements are true. The chip was designed by a team working for Broadcom as a commercial product for devices such as set-top-boxes.

I believe (but I don't know) it wasn't a great technological or commercial success before Pi
 
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Element14:
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I usually get 'served' by your UK department, i've done some shopping from your company in the past.
I really don't know what the Singapore depot has to do with this, but it seems when i log in it directs me there..

Element14:
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@AmiNeo

Thanks for the link. I think I didn't understand what you were saying. My bad. You were talking about the Pi as an end product. I was thinking about it as the chip at it's heart. The statement explains the idea behind the Raspberry Pi foundation concept. And that the idea pre-dates the current Pi silicon. (Which I didn't know!) What it doesn't explain is where the silicon the actual Pi now uses came from. The chip wasn't developed just to encourage people into programming. (The actual product you can buy today was. But the chip wasn't, it couldn't be). The silicon was developed by Broadcom as a commercial chip to target markets such as set-top-boxes etc. An SoC of this size would have cost tens of millions of pounds to develop. As fun a concept the Pi is, the foundation could not afford to develop it's own SoC (System On a Chip).

Eben works for Broadcom and was a member of the team which developed the SoC the Pi uses. I don't know for sure but I think Eben who was working on the Pi concept got a very good deal on these chips from his employer (cost?) which is why they settled on this silicon for the Pi.

I'd be curious to know if the Pi Silicon was actually a commercial failure and Broadcom was about to write off it's inventory??
 
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Ah, well when I said it was designed, I mean the product not the processor. The processor is a standard ARMv6 processor found in many devices, which I do not know the history of and it wasnt built specifically for this project. It just happens to be a processor suitable for the project, much like Motorolla 60010 CPUs were used in Amigas and games consoles such as the Megadrive. You'd likely find the ARMv6 processors in many portable devices including the Samsung Galaxy Ace amongst other mobile phones. :thumbsup:


What makes the Pi so special is its price, and the fact that for that price its a palm sized PC which is completely open for you to tinker with in every imaginable way on the software level. It's the ideal platform to learn programming on with a limited budget making programming easier to get into and much more accessible than ever and being as small and low powered as it is (just 3W peak) people are finding many uses for it besides.
 
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RE:order update RS.com

Good Afternoon mr nurney

I am sorry for the delay to the shipment of your order but due to high demand your order has not been dispatched yet. As your order conformation highlights, this could take up to 6 weeks and once shipped a dispatch confirmation email with all tracking details shall be sent to you. We've put together a forecast schedule that shows which orders we expect to have shipped by the end of each week.



Date by

Last Order number shipped

Tuesday 19th June

31,500

Sunday 24th June

40,500

Sunday 1st July

51,500

Sunday 8th July

61,500

Sunday 15th July

71,500



Our daily shipping schedule is variable, so please use the week-ending forecast shown here as your main guide. We'll keep this schedule updated online each week so you can get the latest information. I would like to thank you for your patience on this occasion.

Kind Regards
Raspberry Pi Team
 
@salaxi54: oh my god! :blink: I hope it will get better quickly. It is true that the deposit in Singapore has nothing to do with you :Doh:
@mjnurney: I have approx. the same message from FARNELL (20-jun-2012) and 7 days later, a new msg about the shipment!
 
I received my order code from RS for the Raspberry pi today. I went to the site and selected US Dollars for the currency and was shocked by the cost. Part of the cost was that the pi itself was more expensive than the target cost I had heard from the pi developers and the other was the VAT. I'll have to find a USA distributor. Anyone know of any?

Thanks!

Heather
 
For me, it is:
- GBP 32.70 (Invoice Total)
- VAT rate: 20.00
- VAT: 5.45

Today, another message from FARNELL Element14:
- Farnel Invoice for my second RASPBERRY PI :thumbsup:
 
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Thanks. Unfortunately non of which really grabs me.

XBMC / OpenElec did (silent 1080p media player YAY!!) but they are both a bit too flakey atm.

iPlayer + 4OD + ITVCatchup etc. also interest me but all the RTMP plugins for XBMC are a bit flakey even in MacOS / Windows :(

Anyone doing anything with Bluetooth and WiiMotes for controlling the Pi? That looks like a good match.

I wonder if there will be a Pi demo scene?
 
I'm sure lots will come , its just a nit early yet. the wii mote control is bound to happen i used it on the mac but got bored very quickly.

i thought inlayer had been stopped on xbmc? it had when i used it...
 
Good news! Someone must've been 'touched' by my case...
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Your Raspberry Pi has now been shipped from our warehouse.

Farnell Ref No: xxxxxxxx
Your Order number: xxxxxxxxx 19-APR-12 18.06 [/FONT]
:)
 
salaxi54 said:
Good news! Someone must've been 'touched' by my case...
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Your Raspberry Pi has now been shipped from our warehouse.

Farnell Ref No: xxxxxxxx
Your Order number: xxxxxxxxx 19-APR-12 18.06 [/FONT]
:)
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Same with mine Bill my friend :)
 
Awesome Marios! Building a pretty local Pi-user base methinks. :D
If it weren't already occupied, i'd be shoving it in the A2000 case -although there's still room in there for a few Pi's i guess..:)
 
Raspbmc is better than openelec


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