Raspberry Pi

[mangaman]

Has anyone got one or thinking of it.

I gather they're a bit hard to get hold of, but for £22 I'm severely tempted.

As a veteran of the ZX Spectrum they have a fascination, and there must be something vaguely useful you could use them for - even it were back-up / storage of data?

 

[MossCommuter]

Both official outlets have reverted to a "register your interest" page because of the unexpectedly high demand.

Wait for the grey market (eBay) to respond.

Anyway, I'll be having one and I've registered with both suppliers.

 

[DCLane]

I've registered my interest as well.

ex-Spectrum programme here too

 

[WorcesteRob]

Was listening on the radio this morning and seems like a great bit of kit, browsing the interweb now to find out more!

 

[mangaman]

Was listening on the radio this morning and seems like a great bit of kit, browsing the interweb now to find out more!

I agree - they even seem to have wifi connection. For £22, it must be the best value ever (which I guess is why they are impossible to buy at present)

 

[summerdays]

I'm sure there are a couple in this house (both big and small) who would be interested ... maybe look to getting one later in the the year?

 

[MossCommuter]

I agree - they even seem to have wifi connection. For £22, it must be the best value ever (which I guess is why they are impossible to buy at present)

There is no WiFi

That rumour was started by a blogger who did not understand what Ethernet was. That is not to say you could not use a USB WiFi dongle.

 

[MossCommuter]

They're supposed to be for 16 year-olds, not you aging gits - no wonder there's none left!

It's for my nephew, honest

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I heard about this on R4 the other day, sounded great, not for profit organisation too. Apparently their website crashed shortly after the broadcast (due to demand not because it was a rubbish website!).

 

[fossyant]

I'm sure my son would love one. They did say on the TV report that the retail machines will have a case - maybe that's why you can't get one yet.

 

[machew]

The current versions are the retail machines. A case will just add to the cost of the base unit. There will be third parties selling cases, or you can make your own (lego, fag packet etc .. ect)

 

[machew]

I heard about this on R4 the other day, sounded great, not for profit organisation too. Apparently their website crashed shortly after the broadcast (due to demand not because it was a rubbish website!).

The Raspberry PI website was fine (they had changed it to a static page) Franell's and RS Components went TU, due to the fact that at one state they were getting 1m hits per mins

 

[david1701]

Has anyone got one or thinking of it.

I gather they're a bit hard to get hold of, but for £22 I'm severely tempted.

As a veteran of the ZX Spectrum they have a fascination, and there must be something vaguely useful you could use them for - even it were back-up / storage of data?

xbmc baby, needs wifi usb which won't be a fun set up, but they are duck tapeable to the back of the pc and are built with a hdmi out and native 1080p support. To make a nice box with blue ray drive, mobo, baby ssd ect would cost me 300-350 but these are so cheap its actually an option for them to be on every tv in the house