Rasberry Pi - Hmmm - what is the future for this one?

[martint123]

Good grief, a SCRUMPI -

Then I branched out into my own and knocked up a Ham Radio morse contest keyboard.

[Reddwarf]

This is getting really nostalgic, a couple of years ago me and my wife visited Science Museum in London, and I found a Honywell computer that I'd worked a lot with in the old days. You feel slightly old when you find a familiar tool on the museum!

[martint123]

Well so much for a cheap messing about board. Well maybe in Feb when production starts

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/raspberry_pi/m...ksid=p3686

[bgowland]

Well so much for a cheap messing about board. Well maybe in Feb when production starts

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/raspberry_pi/m...ksid=p3686

I wondered how much they'd make. Pretty impressive.

[bgowland]

Current total of bids for all 10 of the limited edition first run is over £10,000 - that's gotta go some way to contributing to development costs.

I like this bit of the auction ad...

We'll also throw in a USB power supply and an SD card with a pre-release Linux distribution on it.

Serial #1 is already at £2500 with over 4 days to go - I'd most definitely expect a power supply and OS for that kind of money.

[martint123]

So, a year and a half or so on and they announce the 1 millionth made in the UK and 1.75 million in total.
Makes a change with manufacturing moving to the UK from China

[johnsonx42]

My (2) RPi's just arrived yesterday, but I've held off on picking them up (they're at the mailbox place I use for business) because I have pressing work stuff I need to do this week and I know I'll get nothing at all done once I start playing with them.

Ironically I discovered yesterday that my local Microcenter actually stocks them, $40 each. I probably would have picked one or two up awhile ago had I known that... I always fuss about for awhile before ordering anything that has to ship, but am very good (or bad depending on how you look at it) about making impluse buys on things I can have right now now now!

[ga_mueller]

Off-topic, but I sure do miss our Bay Area Microcenter... they closed last year! A great alternative to the always-awful Fry's, and they had great prices on CPU's to get you in the store... sigh

[bgowland]

My (2) RPi's just arrived yesterday, but I've held off on picking them up (they're at the mailbox place I use for business) because I have pressing work stuff I need to do this week and I know I'll get nothing at all done once I start playing with them.

Good idea. I was given one on loan to play with - it took a couple of evenings to set it up the way I wanted it.

The good thing is you can easily take an image of the SD card along the way in case you mess things up and want to take a step back to a previous setup. Enjoy...the RPi is a fun box to play with.

Cheers,
Brian