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Old 26-02-2012, 17:21   #46
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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

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Old 26-02-2012, 17:51   #47
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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
That looks like a.....errrmmm.....errrr.....what's it called again??? Oha yeah - it's an X-Wing from Star Wars isn't it!!
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Old 26-02-2012, 19:19   #48
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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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Old 26-02-2012, 20:29   #49
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Still no availability date yet though. Have you seen the case that they guy made? Awesome!!
Looks good.

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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.
Someone covered that in the Pi forum
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Old 26-02-2012, 20:31   #50
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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.
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
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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
It would.. Large enough SD card should give decent recording length as well.
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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.
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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.


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Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?

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

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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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Although we are still waiting for units to arrive from China, you can start buying the Raspberry Pi today. We have entered into licensed manufacture partnerships with two British companies, Premier Farnell and RS Components.


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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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Re: Raspberry Pi - a revolution?

And both Farnell and RS are now down...
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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
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I presume that everyone was intelligent enough to pre-register on the store site in the last few days??
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!
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RS has now collapsed for me as everyone wakes up
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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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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!
It was always a possibility though

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

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Good bit of video here

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