Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK
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Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK
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#2So happy they finally found a local factory, and one of great technical and "entrepreneurial" quality
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#3Hopefully this brings more control over the production by the RPi team. If something is going wrong, it's a lot easier to take a trip down the M4 (or the train) than it is to fly to China and sort things out.
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#4This is great news for RPi team and for uk manufacturing. I've been saying for over a year now that if there is a reasonable level of automation then there is no reason why china should be cheaper than the uk.so long as you can maintain a robust supply chain of components (I should think using a sony facility is beneficial to this) then it can work out great.
We priced our product for uk and china and china was infact more expensive because of the way they price plastics. Sometimes UK is best
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#5Does anyone know where BBC Micros were manufactured? Sinclair's ZX machines (and C5s) were made in Dundee.
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#6I spoke with Raspberry Pi about this for a news story I wrote. They said this about manufacturing: "The temptation is always to push manufacturing to a low-cost region, but I think with the right attention to detail there's no reason British manufacturing can't compete in a global marketplace," Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation told ZDNet UK on Thursday. "It shows that British manufacturing can be competitive."
( http://www.zdnet.com/raspberry-pi-manufacturing-comes-home-a... )
Are there similar moves underway in the US?
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#7Hopefully this will facilitate better placement and attachment of the c6 capacitor.
Re: Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK
#8Does anyone know where BBC Micros were manufactured? Sinclair's ZX machines (and C5s) were made in Dundee.
In the UK initially but they had to scale out to Hong Kong for the international market (via Wong Electronics) as they were a little bit more successful than they expected. Nice to see it happening the other way round.
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#9Does anyone know where BBC Micros were manufactured? Sinclair's ZX machines (and C5s) were made in Dundee.
Eben told me BBC Micros were manufactured in Wales a lot at first.
Re: Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK
#10Hopefully this brings more control over the production by the RPi team. If something is going wrong, it's a lot easier to take a trip down the M4 (or the train) than it is to fly to China and sort things out.
I wouldn't be so sure of that with the currently absurd amount of roadworks on the M4 ;)