Dos_Box Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 The Register has a good article on the £22 ($35) micro miracle which is due to ship in December. Maybe this can begin to help plug the coding gap in schools? Psst, kid... Wanna learn how to hack? ? The Register The RaspberryPi Model A and Model B (a reference to the BBC Micro) are expected to go on sale in December priced $25 and $35 (16 and 22 quid respectively). The Model A will have 128M of RAM and no Ethernet, whereas the Model B will be produced in larger numbers and have 256M of RAM plus 10/100MBit networking. Although bare boards will be made available first, Upton said he expects the foundation to offer a cased version with electronic documentation next year for the same price. Meanwhile, the Pi has some rivals: the closest being Texas Instruments and Digi-Key's BeagleBone, which is a small 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8-powered computer for about 60 quid. Although the Pi gang hopes to make all its schematics and associated low-level documentation available for all, the Beagleboard project actively publishes its engineering materials under an open-source licence. "In five years' time, we'll be looking back on the era of $300 Intel system units in bemusement," Upton concluded.
edutech4schools Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 I watched this on tv a few months back. very interesting.
AlexB Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 Yup, I've been waiting on these. I doubt they'll take off at my school, but you can be damn sure I'll pick up a couple....
X-13 Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 If I can get a small screen, would it be possible to wire it to the board without the need for drivers? Something like an iPhone screen, but cheaper. I'm starting to have an idea.
dhicks Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 If I can get a small screen, would it be possible to wire it to the board without the need for drivers? Yes - the best place to check is the Raspberry Pi forums, where this topic has been discussed several times. The Raspberry Pi itself has an interface suitible for attaching an LCD screen, although I can't remember the exact details, and I figure Mimo USB controlled (and powered) screens should work, although you'd need drivers for those.
wesleyw Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 With ThinStation installed a very cheap ThinClient? Theres bound to be a port of it for this at some point. Wes
X-13 Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 Yes - the best place to check is the Raspberry Pi forums, where this topic has been discussed several times. The Raspberry Pi itself has an interface suitible for attaching an LCD screen, although I can't remember the exact details, and I figure Mimo USB controlled (and powered) screens should work, although you'd need drivers for those. Useful. But not what I was thinking. I have bigger ideas for it. E-paper + Laser/optical[?] edged retractable touchscreen. On-screen keyboard. Crack open either an old phone to get rf antenna/3g connector, install skype. Whack in a rechargeable battery. I've now got the most advanced phone in the world. I'm thinking of it, when closed, looking like a black box. Which opens to have a handle, of sorts, either side and the screen in the middle. Like I said, big ideas. [Read: It's cool... but it probably wont work.] With ThinStation installed a very cheap ThinClient? Theres bound to be a port of it for this at some point. Wes This is what i was thinking when I first saw it. The one with the ethernet port is a thin client without the casing.
SHimmer45 Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 i like this alot, shame it doesnt have an SATA port on it, be ideal for homebrewing NAS enclosures without all the hideous bloat which is seeping into the market imo.
teejay Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 It's finally made it to manufacturing, unfortunately it's not being made in the UK as planned but in the Far East due to stupid import duty on components, ah well - We’ve started manufacture! | Raspberry Pi
SHimmer45 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 bloody tax getting in the way of something being made in the UK.... no wonder we dont make much anymore good to see it going into production
teejay Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Think they're going to have to up their production run pretty sharpish after Gove's announcement today!
mjs_mjs Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Think they're going to have to up their production run pretty sharpish after Gove's announcement today! What have they said now? does anyone know if we can pre-order the PI?
Arthur Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 They aren't doing pre-orders. I think the first batch will probably be available to buy sometime in February or March. This means that the first units from the first batch will be rolling off the line at the end of January. This first batch will consist only of Model Bs, although you will be able to buy Model As later on. Details about whether we’ll wait for all 10k to come off the line before starting sales, and about what date we’ll be starting on, will come later; so that gives you something else for you to shift around nervously on your chairs about for at least another week or so. (Source)
teejay Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 What have they said now? Gove has scrapped the ICT curricullum from September and replaced it with Computer Science, I can see demand from schools for the RPi going through the roof as it's a cheap and safe way for students to really get stuck into some programming.
JJonas Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) GameMaker running on the Raspberry Pi https://twitter.com/#!/mdf200/status/157062244277030912/photo/1 Edited January 11, 2012 by JJonas
CyberNerd Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Gove has scrapped the ICT curricullum from September and replaced it with Computer Science, I can see demand from schools for the RPi going through the roof as it's a cheap and safe way for students to really get stuck into some programming. I'm pessimistic about this. RPi is just a computer, and it's still going to need a monitor, keyboard. I'm keen that it works, and interested in getting one myself. They'd be great for thin clients, but ultimately students can already get stuck into computing with the kit in schools - remote booting existing pc's or older equipment is fairly trivial to sort out.
Mullaney18 Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) Apparently, RaspberryPI #1 (first board made) just sold on Ebay for £3.5k according to Raspberry PI's Twitter Cant see any of the other prices for the other 9 on sale till feedback is left. ADDED Just tweeted: All together, the auctions raised £16,336 - thanks so much to all the bidders for your generosity, and to all those who raised awareness Tweet Edited January 12, 2012 by Mullaney18 Added Tweet
JJonas Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) Raspberry Pi's first school trip Edited February 28, 2012 by JJonas
tumbleweed Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 Ladies and gentlemen, set your alarms! | Raspberry Pi
Arthur Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 ^ http://www.edugeek.net/forums/raspi-fedora-linux/89000-cant-wait-my-raspi-2.html#post795672 Could the mods combine the two threads?
teejay Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 OK, who else stupidly got up at 6am as is currently hitting the f5 key
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