£15 computer !!
 

David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite.

Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools.


http://www.geek.com/articles/games/g...or-25-2011055/

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That is impressive.
However my son learnt about PC components at school last year (year 5- 11yo)......are they not teaching this in other schools?:confused:

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I think he is quite right. I've seen that in schools they teach many things such as creating a website, making an access database, using graphs in excel, etc but nothing such as basic programming.

I remember when I was at school we started with programming a turtle to draw patterns and looked at simple code building.

This pocket sized PC is a great way of getting kids involved in how computers operate.

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I wouldnt mind one of those myself. I could think of loads of uses for them.

Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

The teaching of IT in our schools has recently been heavily criticised:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16157519

Will this make a difference, both inside and outside of the education sector?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439


http://www.raspberrypi.org/

The start of a revolution even?

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I was looking at it this morning.. Put one on a USB caddy and you have an ultra cheap NAS or with Servio running a cheap DLNA server.

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Brilliant idea. The possibilities are endless.

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Yes, and it's nice that a UK based organisation is behind this. Wouldn't it be great if this is the start of something huge!

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It looks quite impressive, and as Osem says it's great to see a UK firm behind it. Will keep an eye on it thanks for the heads up :)

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Good for another UK firm too it seems as ARM makes the chips.

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It would be excellent if it had 2 ethernet ports, Think of the linux based router you could build with that :)

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It's got a USB 2 port so easy enough to add another NIC/WNIC for router usage

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Haven't we discused this device in another thread? I recall a discussion about it a few weeks back...

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A search for Raspberry doesn't bring anything up

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...-computer.html

I think...

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Correct and 'Pi' is too short to search for (I tried both). :)

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

search to 3 decimal places then.

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I have super powers!

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If you want one of the Beta boards...

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

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I think he should come up with a better word for more than one Raspberry Pi... :p:

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I dont care what they are called :), I cannot wait for these to go on sale.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

When they do I trust you resident tecchie guys will be showing us mere mortals how to make use of them. ;)

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I am looking forward to being able to get Peter one to play with - of course I will have to get one too ;)

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

+1 on that. Mind you when they go on sale they are gonna be like rocking horse do do!

For the cost (when I get my mitts on one) I'm gonna be making a little media\t'interweb machine for the bedroom. Well that's what I'm hoping to do.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I think it'd be really great if those of you out there who appreciate the potential uses of this device share your various projects with the rest of us so we can see some actual applications of this technology. Who knows, we may be inspired and try some of our own... ;)

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

That's already happening in here and here

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Thanks for the links mate but I'm hoping us laymen won't get lost in all the jargon and tech speak.

:tu:

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Well i hope we have a good flow on info on here as well.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

has anyone seen the price for board #10 that's being auctioned? just over 2K at the moment with 4 days left.


what i could build for that sort of money :D

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-...item2a17baa695

and i'd pay a couple quid to play Quake 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDu...eature=related

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I didn't meant I have a problem with the name just when they're talking about more than one it becomes Raspberry Pis, which is er, bad.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

See what you mean :)

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Surely it would be n*Pi or Pi^n?

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Braben: No Raspberry Pi for Consumers Until 3Q12

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Raspbe...2.html

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Have fixed the link
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Raspbe...ews-37722.html

Typical sell out if you ask me. This so called $25/$35 computer will be nothing of the sort. The dealers will get it then put there mark up on it and we will see something more in the region of $55/$75 mark my words. I have been waiting to get one of these but they can stick it up there :rolleyes: if they do this.

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If you read here that's a load of rubbish luckily!

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I do hope they tell Toms what a bunch of idiots they have been :)

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Fedora 14 remix available Wednesday...

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

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I cannot wait for this to go on sale. I want to build a couple of streaming units with it.

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Been reading that with interest as it looks exactly like the system i want.

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It must be close now ;)

Give me my Pi :)

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There are some big hints on the site today :)

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Seen them and waiting for the chance to get one :)

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Still no availability date yet though. Have you seen the case that they guy made? Awesome!!

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I am not a very practical person :( - I can see me making one out of lego and just using some glue to hold it all together :)

I aim to make a very portable accessible pc to take about with me so any prospective employer can't bitch about how much hardware will cost for me to be able to to any IT work ;)

Well - this is the case sorted ;)

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

That looks like a.....errrmmm.....errrr.....what's it called again??? Oha yeah - it's an X-Wing from Star Wars isn't it!! :D

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Well, I was going to buy a new NAS as the one I have doesn't have enough space.. I am now thinking I might actually buy one of these and build my own nas. Plug in a USB drive. Could be a lot more interesting than buying a NAS.

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Looks good.

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Someone covered that in the Pi forum

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I just got a noontec N5 which does a simplified DLNA/Samba/WebDav/BT Nas last month so a bit late for me to do that with it (was only £40 with no drive).. I'm looking at doing Dual HD webcam recorder for mobile applications on a race vehicle so a raspberry Pi B board is ideal

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

It would.. Large enough SD card should give decent recording length as well.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Close now I suspect :)

The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive) announcement that*just might interest you*at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Come to www.raspberrypi.org to find out what’s going on.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

:hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper: Here we go

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Why are we waiting!!! Why oh are we waiting... (oh it's not 6am yet :D )

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I presume that everyone was intelligent enough to pre-register on the store site in the last few days??

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Hmm, they're not using their own store

https://uk.rs-online.com/

http://uk.farnell.com/

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RS site is running like a pig.. At least I have a company account there so get free deivery, it's supposed to be next day but the raspberry site says:



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Here's the direct link on RS to register for interest.. No idea if they'll be taking orders today

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalD...id=raspberrypi

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Latest news is that the A version will now also include 256Mb ram.. That's good as 128 was a bit useless..

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And both Farnell and RS are now down...

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Confirmed on twitter, that they should be on sale today.. currently though Farnell's site can't cope and RS is pointing to a register interest page :rolleyes:

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I didn't think they'd use their own store / infrastructure....they would'nt cope with the traffic....nor can the suppliers by the looks of it!

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

RS has now collapsed for me as everyone wakes up

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Give it chance - this happens with concert tickets all the time...I guess staff at Farnell and RS are changing the pages as we speak...

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It was always a possibility though :D

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Or putting out the server fires... I can hear the Halon alarms from here :D

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:(

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Good bit of video here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190334

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Farnell: Is that a ploy to stop the DDos? I've got a page header from Farnell now...

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Farnell:

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Farnells gone into maintenance mode

I suppose I should have picked up the phone and ordered that way with RS

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Off to work now and no where near being able to order one :(

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Still getting the "register interest" screen on RS when you try to search for raspberry pi

What a you know what!!!

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

https://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi

apparently that RS page was the wrong one, I never found a right one :(

farnell pre-orders only, I guess some lucky ppl got through and ordered up the initial allocations at both shops :( Oh well, just have to wait and get one with a case etc. Fingers crossed those that got them put them to good use, and they're not just used to run xbmc.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Word on twitter is that RS isn't taking order will the end of the week

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Trust the BBC to get it wrong

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Well i have registered my interest :rolleyes:

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

and I was hoping to be able to order my Pi today as well :(

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Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Guy next to me at work ordered one from Farnel an hour or so ago, I just tried and site down again.

edit tried again, can pre-order at farnel, also coming soon, 2 bundles, one with sd card, another with sdcard and wireless mouse, no price though on those

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Well that was a balls up. Don't know anybody who managed to get one from RS...Farnell's website was on it's knees by 06:01 so I don't know how people can say they managed to order one from them.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

it (Farenell) was, but it was up and down all day, I saw his confirmation page, but when I tried I couldn't get to it :(

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

How long before we see them on Ebay at over inflated buy now prices :mad:

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

They already were on ebay today at £39, the picture though showed an alpha board and raspberry pi was looking at getting them removed as the picture especially was wrong and also copyrighted.

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RS Components announcement as to the Raspberry Pi

http://www.electrocomponents.com/med.../2012/02/29th/

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Hrrr hrrr.

Our alarm doesn't even work (well technically, it was never set up)...

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Well now I have registered an interest at both places selling it - and a delivery date (23rd March) from farnell.

I've got my 8gb sd card ready now and a blackberry charger for power :)

Just need to learn a little patience :)

When I DO get both I am going to give Peter one as he's always on about learning to program.

Nice

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

After registering an interest on launch day I got an e-mail today from Farnell prompting me to pre-order. No delivery date though...

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Generic email from RS about the same time last night

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Just checked my mail and i have one as well.

Also checkout this superb case for the pi. :)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-cas...item43adba366a

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

What time is on the email Sirius?

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I had the email from RS as 23.30

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23.29

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23:29 myself, hopefully the earlier emails will be the first in on the offers ;)

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

23:29 on my email as well. Personally, I'd love a custom case that looks like the old BBC Model B. :)

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

23:30 on mine, looking forward to this. No idea what I'm going to do with it yet but starting to look into some projects.

J

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I did think of a bbc but I like my beeb and still use it so I wouldn't messs with it :)

I did see this and thought it was quite cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPPku_xbMZQ&feature=fvst

Trouble is I'm about a practical as a whelk that's been dead for six months so the chance of me managing anything more than a lego case is not likely

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...mputer-science

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Meh.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I think the idea is that it's not an allsinging and all dancing game bit of equipment and the scratch programming tool is designed to help children learn programming..

I worry though that most kids will throw it in the back of a drawer purely because of it's limitations and will stick with their ps3's, iphones..etc..

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Hopefully the foundation will produce the material to use with the devices and the suppliers will get the nice clear cases around them.

Then schools can have computers that can be used for coding without needing expensive software. With the interfaces they can get projects where the computer can "talk" to things and be "talked" to. They can eventually programme the pi and then have it work with the other things without being connected to keyboards, monitors and the like. Mix coding with some engineering and build something "practical".

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Just got my delivery date, 30/04/12... :(

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Another email from Farnell this morning moving my delivery to may!

Not heard more from RS yet though.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Great news story about plans to use Raspberry Pi's as censor breakers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17231698

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

A case for your Raspberry anyone?
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/03/ras...computer-case/
:)

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Oops.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03...ed_networking/

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Then you may be interested in this...

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/810

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Thats the sort of thing i want :tu:

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

I registered twice on the website on that fateful day.. Once at about 6am, the other about 7am.. Just got the email for the 2nd registrations about 5 days after the first email..

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Me too. And I see on the forum some rs people are getting congratulations you're in the first batch type emails so I guess im out of luck for the first lot.

Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?
 

Wait and see