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Raspberri PI Release Announcement
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Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement
#222What cool plans do people have for these if they can get their hands on one?
Probably not quite what the designers intended, but...
I plan to put one in an aluminium box with some SRAM and an anti-tamper switch, store keys in the SRAM and use it to back up TrueCrypted thumb drives.
Should be more secure than mounting them on an internet-connected PC just to back them up.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is capable of doing 1080p decoding. I no longer need a Blu-ray player, Boxee box, Roku box, anything. I have an HDTV, I plug this into it with XBMC installed. Boom. I can stream anything from anywhere. It's also AirPlay enabled. Any TV just became a very smart TV for $35. If you're not familiar with XBMC, prepare to have your mind blown.
Not having Wifi kills this option for me personally.
Really? I'm fortunate that my parents recently built a house and wired ethernet everywhere (I'm tired of helping my dad try to configure transcoding servers to stream to broken DLNA implementations that vary between the 3 different Samsung LCDs he bought within 3 months) and I'll be doing the same.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why downvote this guy? He's right. I'd wager that a non-insignificant % of the people scrambling to order want to get their hands on one to flip it on eBay. Watch what happens when they start shipping.
And if someone needs one this week instead of waiting 2-3 weeks, then they're free to spend $300. Otherwise the seller is just playing to buyer's stupidity. Oh well.
I think it's going to be longer than 2-3 weeks to get one.
Regardless, I don't see what the urgency is. If there's something you need to develop on an embedded ARM SoC, there are plenty of other more available (and less publicized) options.
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#225Fulfillment by Amazon would be awesome for this. Free two-day shipping and the site wouldn't go down. Edit: Seriously, you send them a big box, and they mail out all the little boxes. Check it out: http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
Only that Amazon doesn't ship electronics to outside the US, and thus international customers wouldn't be able to get them. Since the Foundation is from the UK, they probably know that. Maybe they didn't go for the best option, but I always like to remind the US customers (who usually just don't honestly know about Amazon's restrictions) that buying electronics from them is a bad idea for the international market
Estimate demand, send X% of your initial production run (probably more than half) to Amazon, send the rest to international suppliers.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is capable of doing 1080p decoding. I no longer need a Blu-ray player, Boxee box, Roku box, anything. I have an HDTV, I plug this into it with XBMC installed. Boom. I can stream anything from anywhere. It's also AirPlay enabled. Any TV just became a very smart TV for $35. If you're not familiar with XBMC, prepare to have your mind blown.
Not having Wifi kills this option for me personally.
Buy a WRT54gl, put dd-wrt on it, set it up as a client-bridge, now you can network your xbox, HTPC, PS3, etc. easily.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're not supposed to end up in the hands of hackers for $200+. They're supposed to end up in the hands of kids for $35.
This first run is not the educational release. These are specifically for hackers. The educational release will be later this year, and will include cases, power supplies, and an OS for the same price. This release is lacking all those. This early release is for hackers to play with, develop projects, and write tutorials, so that there is an ecosystem already in place for the educational release.
>This early release is for hackers to play with, develop projects, and write tutorials, so that there is an ecosystem already in place for the educational release.
A shame that the GPU specs aren't open, I would love to get in to GPU driver development with something like this.
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#228I am really disappointed about their choice of distributors. Neither Farnell's nor RS Components subsidiaries in Germany and Austria ship to private individuals, you have to be a corporate buyer in order to be able to order from them. And since they "have" local subsidiaries, the "international" sites of both companies don't ship to either country. In short: in Germany or Austria, you cannot buy the Raspberry Pi unle…
Private entities can place an order at the Dutch Farnell by email if the total sum is over 50 euros. See for instance [1]. I could not find similar regulations at the German Farnell site.
[1] http://nl.farnell.com/images/nl_NL/pdf/Particulier_voorwaard...
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you want a teeny tiny Arm development board? Because you want to make a fanless media server? Because you want to learn programming and your elder brother is hogging the PC surfing for whatever teenage boys surf for?
So it's a minicomputer without the disk, keyboard, mouse, screen, and speakers, which quickly adds up to $250 with cheapest components if you want to use it as a general-purpose computer. At the same time, it runs linux and the same linux distro runs also in qemu, so you can do most of the develompent without actual hardware. So where's the rush, why does everybody have to get it right now?
I'm not sure why there's such a rush. It's a really neat device. I haven't been excited by a gadget for a few years, and this is quite exciting. But I'm happy to wait for some months before I get one.
I guess there's some kudos or cachet or whatnot tied up with owning one of the first batch; with being one of the first 10,000 people to have blogs up about programming the device.
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#230I love it how people are pissing on this as though it is a failure. Really, unbelievable. Here is a group of dedicated guys and girls that work their asses off to produce a $25 computer with more punch than you'd ever think possible for that amount of money.
Not only do they deliver, they are sold out in absolute record time with the sites simply collapsing under the load.
I'd chalk this one up as a success, definitely not a failure and I fully expect the second (and subsequent) runs of the RaspberryPi to have a similar effect. Kudos to Eben, Liz and the rest of the team, you guys really rock and I hope that you won't let the sourpusses ruin your fantastic day for you.
I've watched the RaspberryPi saga closely from day 1 and I'm very very happy to see it come to fruit ;)