http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/pcs/2012/01/26/raspberry-pi-modders-dream-machine/1

It's a project to make a very cheap computer,’ Upton explained by way of background, ‘to make a computer for $25 without networking or $35 with. It was founded because we think that the lack of programmable hardware for children - the sort of hardware we used to have in the 1980s - is undermining the supply of eighteen year olds who know how to program, so that's a problem for universities, and then it's undermining the supply of 21 year olds who know how to program, and that's causing problems for industry.’

Thought this may interest a few of you.

edit by trog: official site is: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

I have been following it's development for a while and i'll certainly be getting one when they are available.

The price is what's interesting here. Pico-ITX motherboards are expensive, so I'm not sure how they are getting this down to $25.

This is also interesting - it runs XBMC!



I think I'm going to wait for the 2nd generation ones that have a case - I don't want to have to deal with innards dangling everywhere. But I definitely want one for a Linux box at home!

They can run Apple TV as well as XBMC. This little thing is going to change the world yo!



I want one, or two. When can I get it?

^ whoa. I didn't realise there was an AirPlay application thing you could just run on Linux. That is pretty neat.

^ whoa. I didn't realise there was an AirPlay application thing you could just run on Linux. That is pretty neat.

Well, let me wet your appetite a bit more.

Yeah at that price point I can think of a heap of things I would like to do with a couple of them, because if I can't get it to work, then I can just turn it into something else.

The whole idea brings a genuine smile to my face, I don't think they will achieve there grandiose shift in the way younger people use computers but it's still awesome.

I would snap a bunch of them up in an instant.

But I don't believe it will ever be produced at the price point. Even if it's four times the price point it will still be a bargain though.

Latest Xbmc build Eden has AirPlay built in.

Works well in appletv no longer have to crash out to normal appletv to watch AirPlay content

OH yeah, these things look hot

I will be buying one for sure to see what I can do, being a bit of a computer enthusiast

I too doubt they will end up being 35, even if they could mass produce them for less than that and make a profit for $35, supply and demand will likely see the price rise
can you even pre-order them at the moment? I first heard about them a month or two ago and even back then they weren't taking any orders

Teq. This video has an interview with the product leader, Eben Upton which answers a lot of your questions.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/0014220/raspberry-pi-25-linux-computer-now-in-production-video#ooid=ltdHVhMzoz8Az_p59sauYWFf-URBIZvJ

..indeed it does.

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.

cases will be sold separately

I will be getting the 256M/2xUSB/Ethernet Pi. $35 USD!

Just announce you damned retards. f*** this s***. If you have something to say, SAY IT, don't plan to say it by saying you will say it tomorrow.

Just announce you damned retards. f*** this s***. If you have something to say, SAY IT, don't plan to say it by saying you will say it tomorrow.

This is not how it works.

XBMC, HMDI output, runs HD video... I'll buy it for sure. I know heaps of people that would like a media player but don't want to spend $100+ for one.

This is not how it works.

This is how it should work.

Computer lockable gun cabinet like in the resident evil movie, home security controller, etc (with the gertboard: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pis-gertboard-expansion-board-already-works-video-2012019/)

I think I'm going to wait for the 2nd generation ones that have a case - I don't want to have to deal with innards dangling everywhere. But I definitely want one for a Linux box at home!

This is probably the closest alternative atm that comes with a case, though a fair bit more expensive. Presumably they'd have to drop their prices if Raspberry Pi is competing at a fraction of the price, time will tell.

They will be selling cases soon after release Trog.

This is how it should work.

Lots of things work otherwise than how we would personally like them to.

I'm not going to explain why they are doing a staged info release because you already know how that works.

They will be selling cases soon after release Trog.

Surely they'll be available on ebay for 2 bucks a pop straight outta Hong Kong?

I saw this coming the other day & didn't post because I am a greedy selfish person who wants all the raspberry pi goodness all to himself.

Although I plan on ordering one in 25 minutes on the site as soon as its available - with only ~10,000 in the first batch, it will be easily sold out.

The way the website is getting smashed at the moment it will be easy to miss today's first batch sale.

Yeah, site is getting smaaaaashed. It's gonna be like trying to get one of the Penny Arcade CTS cels :/

Also remember everyone..

www.raspberrypi.org is the website blog

www.raspberrypi.com is the online store which the purchase will be available from.

lol just hit refresh and the world may end before the page loads.

Announcing the sale was poor form - left themselves open to trashing their webserver bandwidth...

site is live

500 internal server error is all I see :(

Lol all associated getting drilled.

first to link to the actual buy page wins the award!

How to Buy
The Raspberry Pi is available at either Premier Farnell or RS Components. Search for Raspberry Pi, and then follow the normal shopping and checkout process.

If anyone manages to get to an order page, please pick me one up. KTHKBI

can't help but feel this is going to end badly - with me in tears. haha.. come awwn!!!

http://au.element14.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2101+204200&Ntk=gensearch&Ntt=raspberry+pi&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial

edit: at the checkout but registration page won't even load up .. not winning

Store is now down for maintenance. Must be run by the same people that look after Ticketmaster.

Everything timing out makes it much easier to resist the urge to purchase.

farnell sold out already - although I don't know how.

I did manage to order 2 from farnell although unsure if this was before raspberrypi twittered that they were sold out.

Like exemplar below, no confirmation email.

I ordered 10 from element14 and it seemed to accept and confirm the order ok, but I've yet to receive any confirmation email (assuming they don't charge CC until the order is processed).

Just got confirmation email from farnell. Availability: Awaiting Delivery.

One would assume I missed out & get stuck with paying and waiting for the next batch.

RS website seems to be working fine now - however I can't for the life of me find the raspberry pi for sale on it.

I thought I read one per person for this first batch

I thought I read one per person for this first batch

Yeah, I read that on the raspberrypi website too, but element14 let me place the order with 10. Worst case scenario I don't get them for a month.

from rasperrypi.org

Why are we using a licensed manufacture model?...
The involvement of RS Components and Premier Farnell means that we can build volume much, much faster than would have been possible on our own. We are no longer limited to batches of only 10k Raspberry Pis; the Raspberry Pi will now be being built to match demand.

Na, that was one per person minimum order in the faq.

After all that my ex broke down and it looks like I've missed out. FUUUUUUUUU.

Na, that was one per person minimum order in the faq.

Minimum one order per person? They'll make a fortune! What's 7 billion times $25?!

Well with some places you have to minimum order 5+, and I don't think they are in it for the phat loot, looks like UK education might be planning something with Raspberry Pi and good old BBC( Acorn):

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2012/02/16/bbc-micro-2/1

http://au.element14.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=2081185

Further stock available in 38 days

http://australia.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi

Kind of amazing how popular this thing is (or at least, how they're struggling to keep up with demand)

Kind of amazing how popular this thing is (or at least, how they're struggling to keep up with demand)

Not that amazing, the amount of arduino playing has exploded in the last few years, + theres a heap of people who are planning on using these for computer replacement tasks (honestly I think those people should wait because they will most likely be disappointed).

When paired with the Gertboard you have a lot more options which is what I'm more interested in.

http://marcoalici.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/raspberry-pi-case_05d.jpg

http://marcoalici.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/me-and-the-raspberrypi-2/

i want one

Looks good, I finally bothered to order one today. prolly wont see it for another 2 to 3 months. Cheap and fun, cant complain!

I'm going to wait until the gertboard is out and get a couple of both.

Price update out: AU$54.75

Wherefrom?

That case looks great. Can't wait to see what people do with these.

Probably stuff like PirateBox http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox which is itself a really cool idea.

They are so small and yet powerful I am going to implant one in my body with a multitude of sensors and servo's.
If my head is cleft clean from my body the servos will open my mouth in sync with an mp3 of me saying "My Dad always said I'd loose my head if it wasn't bolted on", if my time comes naturally than it will erect my penis and clamp my hand upon it with such strength they will not be able to loosen my death grip at the mortuary. I will also be able to upload stats from my body to my computer and a variety of other functions will be swiftly explored and invoked.

Another use for the Raspberry Pi from the pirate bay

https://thepiratebay.se/blog/210

With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we're going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.

We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet. But we can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough.

Or early April Fools?

Awaiting news item of drone falls from sky and kills someone owners arrested.

Update:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/978

Raspberry Pi has finally passed compliance testing in the UK, they have also passed America's FCC and Australia's CTick.

A cute story. Radiated immunity testing involves hitting the Raspberry Pi hard with narrow-band EM radiation, while checking (amongst many other things) that the device is still able to send Ethernet frames to a hub. The first time the team did this, the light on the hub stopped blinking: no frames were making it through. They did it again: still nothing. Finally, they discovered that the hub (which, I should point out, gave every appearance of being CE marked, so it should have been able to get through these tests itself) was being knocked out every time somebody pressed the button. Jimmy used a longer cable, put the hub outside the field, and found that the Raspberry Pi got through its immunity tests with no problems at all.

So when are they fkn shipping

With the Raspberry Pi now shipping

Outside of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it seems work is being done to support the tiny PC with add-ons. One of the companies set to launch such a product is Adafruit, which has just announced an electronics plate kit for the device.

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-gets-an-electronics-prototyping-plate-kit-20120427/

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/adafruit_rasppi_kit.jpg

Looks like it already has a big brand competitor...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/127903-watch-out-raspberry-pi-intel-unveils-ultra-small-next-unit-of-computing-pc

^^ that seems to target a different kind of use case.
If I wanted something small, relatively powerful, and cheap for something like sensor data processing and logging, I'd use a Raspberry Pi.
Something that's supposed to act a bit more like a computer, maybe the Intel NUC.

Has any Ausgamers/QGL member actually picked one of these up yet?

...or is this rapidly becoming the 'great white whale' of the 21st century?

They've only recently been cleared after compliance testing and are starting to ship properly now. I myself am waiting until the Gertboard is also shipping and getting everything all at once.

I should have one before June ... apparently ...

i'd like one to replace a dodgy acryan media box...

i would sacrifice some size to have all the connectors on the one side tho.

I will need to check my credit card statement but I am relatively sure I paid for 2 of these from element14 on launch day..

have not heard a thing or received an email since.

I want to get a couple (lol more then 2) of these as xbmc media players.

we ordered two at work and they came last week. we aren't allowed to play with them yet until after we finish all this stuff we have to do atm.

I want to get a couple (lol more then 2) of these as xbmc media players.

than*

I look forward to hearing what you've gotta say about em kr0wb4r!

I'm interested, but yea... unsure how much work has gotta go into em to 'make something' of them.

I forgot I ordered this thing but here it is on my desk this morning.

Although I ordered 2 and the delivery says QTY 2 .. there is only 1

Now what to do with the little sucker lol

I forgot I ordered this thing but here it is on my desk this morning.

Although I ordered 2 and the delivery says QTY 2 .. there is only 1

Now what to do with the little sucker lol

Did you get just the board? I heard there was a cased version they were doing...
Also, apparently a Debian 6 remix was done for it as well as the Fedora developed by Raspberry Pie foundation.

Where can you order this tasty bit of computing from?

Element 14

I have had one for a month now they bring back memories of slow computing

yeh doesnt phase me if they are slow.

i am more interested in performance of an RDP session. maybe a thin client?

My micro ITX HTPC is a beast compared to this and it is frustratingly slow. I can't imagine a media center on a Raspberry Pi, but for me that would be the ultimate goal. Does anyone have any reviews of people actually doing this? It would be brilliant to stick one of these behind a wall mounted television, but if making it 2 or 3 times bigger gives it more juice and still fits back there, then that would be better.

I look forward to hearing what you've gotta say about em kr0wb4r!

Heh - weeks later and they're still in their little plastic sleeves on the lunch table.

No time for fun around here. =/

Did you get just the board? I heard there was a cased version they were doing...

Yeah, that's I'm waiting for the gertboard and modules to be released and get it as a bundle, or at least at the same time... still patiently waiting.

Yeah, that's I'm waiting for the gertboard and modules to be released and get it as a bundle, or at least at the same time... still patiently waiting.

Hadn't seen any of this on my internet travels. Very interesting.

Also found some other cool ideas:
Similar Intel prototype of tiny computer
The PirateBox
PirateBoxLive - live boot disk
Dead Drops - USB drives cemented in walls - world map of dead drops (~5 in AU)
Forban

http://marcoalici.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/me-and-the-raspberrypi-2/

Holy crap, mental - how good are those Blender/Yafray renders!? I thought it was a real physical case.

Anyone see any particularly good idea for Raspberry Pi that suits the particular form factor/processing requirement well?

I will just take this opportunity to say they are slow as all hell in a GUI environment.

And I would really like to express SLOW.

I thought it would pass as a little rdp machine, logging into Xeon hardware but it really is unusable. I cant imagine anyone using one of these day to day let alone as a media center or

They really are for what they say, teaching kids basic programming and Linux fundamentals.

If you didn't need a GUI, it would probably run fine as a little FTP server? Although the Ethernet card sucks as it isnt gig.
I am sure I can find a use for the little bugger, stay tuned.