Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Jim Bauwens on February 29, 2012, 07:27:55 am
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It's here! (Well, only model B for now)
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
But there is so much traffic that it's hard to buy one right now.
People internationally might also have to wait a bit.
Anyway, I'm going to buy one :)
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What is this?
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I'm gonna wait till the summer when I can get some money and buy a couple of these. the b's look pretty useful... not so sure about the a's though
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=DDD
stefan, it's a 25/35 dollar ARM7 computer with 256 megs of RAM, RCA and HDMI out, and the 35$ model has 2 usb ports and an ethernet port =D
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O.O That is like a calculator on steroids O.O We could use this for that old project to create OTCalc, right?
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OMG I'm getting a B :3
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What can you do with this.
Edit also shmibs now I get your avatar XD
EDIT2: *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.*2,000TH POST!!!!! :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
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I want a B as well o.o This means I am going to have to start learning how to use computers :D
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This is going to be perfect with my 7" usb monitor.
Will make a perfect irssi device :P
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I'm tempted to get one if they ship outside United States.
That stuff should have come out years ago, when my mom and myself were way too poor to even afford a cheap computer.
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OMG, this is the future of the computer I have been dreaming about!!! A small computer connected to a large monitor. Carry everything with you.
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http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Media-Flash-Memory-LSD128CRBNA133/dp/B004SAMZW4
The Pi only takes SD card as an hdd, so you might want a large one lol
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I'm tempted to get one if they ship outside United States.
That stuff should have come out years ago, when my mom and myself were way too poor to even afford a cheap computer.
They ship worldwide so yes
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Wait a second, I'm calling shenanigans.. (http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=5608119)
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If I had the money on hand right now I would preorder one. This looks great. I wonder what we could do with this.
800mhz and 256mb ram thats as good as older phones/tablets. I'd be really interested to see what ends up being done with these
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I'm sure someone will bring ics to it or android one or the other since its an ARM cpu.
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Merged duplicate topics. ;)
This is looking pretty cool, tho I'm not sure if I'd do much with it myself :P
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How is this even possible?
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My guess is they are making very little to know money off of each one and they control the manufacturing so they can completely control the price to as low as they can
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Makes sense. But $35? I could buy dinner for $35! (Assuming I wasn't the only one eating)
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I'm guessing here, but think TI/Casio. Casio's calcs (older ones at least, maybe newer ones as well) are a ton better than TI's but cost a ton less.. It could just be that they're not ripping people off :P
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They're not ripping people off. In fact, they say they are putting all profit back in to it to make more boards. The problem is their launch failed miserably. Too many things were done badly, and their partnership companies didn't do what they said they would.
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The problem is their launch failed miserably. Too many things were done badly, and their partnership companies didn't do what they said they would.
Really? I thought it was a success! :)
What you said sounds like what happened with OpenPandora, where everything pretty much fell apart, and the device, although real, seemed to be vaporware. Everything that could've gone wrong went wrong (incorrect shipping, faulty parts, bad mfrs. that didn't do the orders, etc.)
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Well, considering both RS and farnell ended up having a "register your interest page", and weren't actually selling it, yes, it ended miserably. As of now, not a single person that I know of has confirmation of owning a raspberry pi. The only guy I know of that might own one paid an extra $20 from element14's site, which has a month or more lead time.
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Well, I guess they ran out of stock real fast. Seems they didn't made enough for the launch. Also which one is better between the two stores?
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Well, considering both RS and farnell ended up having a "register your interest page", and weren't actually selling it, yes, it ended miserably.
Heh, I didn't think of it that way, but now that you mention it... but hey, we'll get it in a few months instead of a few years, right? :D
As of now, not a single person that I know of has confirmation of owning a prizm.
You're tired. ;) I own a PRIZM! :D (And a certain community is obsessed with them because they own PRIZMs! :D)
The only guy I know of that might own one paid an extra $20 from element14's site, which has a month or more lead time.
Yeah, I was a bit puzzled at first at the price inflation, but I guess that's why.
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Well, I guess they ran out of stock real fast. Seems they didn't made enough for the launch. Also which one is better between the two stores?
here's something i found on elemental14's threads:
The Pi people can't be blamed. They did the best they could. 10,000 boards will have cost them about $250,000. That's a huge amount of money for six people to gamble - and until about 0800 on Wednesday they didn't KNOW how it would go. Getting a million boards produced for the launch would have been a huge gamble, they could easily have been left with 900,000 unsold boards that needed to be dumped.The surge of interest might have died down shortly after release time and the number needed could have been only a few times the original batch size.
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Well, I guess they ran out of stock real fast. Seems they didn't made enough for the launch. Also which one is better between the two stores?
here's something i found on elemental14's threads:
The Pi people can't be blamed. They did the best they could. 10,000 boards will have cost them about $250,000. That's a huge amount of money for six people to gamble - and until about 0800 on Wednesday they didn't KNOW how it would go. Getting a million boards produced for the launch would have been a huge gamble, they could easily have been left with 900,000 unsold boards that needed to be dumped.The surge of interest might have died down shortly after release time and the number needed could have been only a few times the original batch size.
This totally makes sense. The guys behind the Pi didn't had any way to predict how much people will buy it at first launch and how much boards they needed.
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Well, considering both RS and farnell ended up having a "register your interest page", and weren't actually selling it, yes, it ended miserably.
Heh, I didn't think of it that way, but now that you mention it... but hey, we'll get it in a few months instead of a few years, right? :D
As of now, not a single person that I know of has confirmation of owning a prizm.
You're tired. ;) I own a PRIZM! :D (And a certain community is obsessed with them because they own PRIZMs! :D)
The only guy I know of that might own one paid an extra $20 from element14's site, which has a month or more lead time.
Yeah, I was a bit puzzled at first at the price inflation, but I guess that's why.
Yeah, I was a bit tired, thanks. I edited it. I own a prizm too, actually. The price inflation has something to do with importing or exporting goods.
Well, I guess they ran out of stock real fast. Seems they didn't made enough for the launch. Also which one is better between the two stores?
here's something i found on elemental14's threads:
The Pi people can't be blamed. They did the best they could. 10,000 boards will have cost them about $250,000. That's a huge amount of money for six people to gamble - and until about 0800 on Wednesday they didn't KNOW how it would go. Getting a million boards produced for the launch would have been a huge gamble, they could easily have been left with 900,000 unsold boards that needed to be dumped.The surge of interest might have died down shortly after release time and the number needed could have been only a few times the original batch size.
This totally makes sense. The guys behind the Pi didn't had any way to predict how much people will buy it at first launch and how much boards they needed.
I saw a small and fleeting update that they had changed from the original 10,000 boards to how ever many were bought would be how ever many were made.
I also saw a recent twitter update about how they are working on rev2 because of a small hardware bug.
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Personally I think it may be better to wait a month or two to buy one so things get set up to work better. Hopefully by summer everything is working so I can order a couple if I get the money
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Personally I think it may be better to wait a month or two to buy one so things get set up to work better.
Yeah, one of my classmates was saying the same thing. I guess I might wait a little to leave them the time to ship stuff correctly and to fix some bugs.
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i wanted to buy it till i saw there was no VAT/BTW included
and i ended up with 40 euro D: with is like 50$
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i wanted to buy it till i saw there was no VAT/BTW included
and i ended up with 40 euro D: with is like 50$
Excl. Monitor and input devices :P
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well i have enough input devices :P
a G19 Logitech gamer keyboard, a Ducky MX brown mechanical keyboard, and a Vortex Poker MX blue mechanical keyboard.
and as for mouses
one Bluetooth dell mouse, actually my bros but he dislikes wireless lol.
G5 and a G9 mouse from logitech
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And somehow you have to plug all of them in the same USB plug. You'll prolly need an USB hub.
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IIRC there are two usb sockets on the B model.
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I thought there's only one and the second is used for power?
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There is a micro USB port for power, but beside that there are two full USB ports :)
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Wow, this is really awesome. I had an idea to build a minimalistic PC similar to this running of an sd card or solid state drive. I'm really interested once they start building and shipping ones with cases.
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uh cases?
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yeah. they're going to cost a bit more, but models with cases (and beginners programming manuals) will be shipped in the future =)
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They'll def. need a case for the pi...maybe they'll even have case modding competitions in the future :D
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I ordered mine right when it came out, and it should arrive around April 7. I don't know, but maybe there could be a section of this forum, or something like that for people who did get one. Omnimaga has been great for programming calculators and I think that a raspberry pi (sub)forum would be awesome! ;D
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i don't think the pi uses any languages that are particular to it, and there is already an "other" dev area where you could ask any such questions.you should definitely ask there once it arrives, though =)
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Well, the Pi runs Linux, and anythhing you can do on Linux, you can do it on the Pi.
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Heard of this yet? Literal cloud computing.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/19/1433216/the-pirate-bay-plans-servers-in-the-sky
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Yep, heard about that the day they announced it.
Isn't this worth it's own topic though? ;P
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I really want one, but I don't have enough money right now. I would get a B though. :)