Nerds assemble! Raspberry pi close to launch date.
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If people are interested in this, but want android/flash and things like Netflix apps and more power.
Cotton candy is taking sign ups for march delivery. More expensive at around ~£170 all in, but much better as a media consumption device.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18379491
Cotton candy is taking sign ups for march delivery. More expensive at around ~£170 all in, but much better as a media consumption device.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18379491
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My delivery date has been pushed back to mid/late April. Bugger.
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They must be making more of them to be put back that late.
That's not even comparable to a £25 piece of kit!
It is for some people, wanting a media device. Which I expect is what most people think they can use it for. But raspberry-pi can't run flash, silverlight or android. Akingit useless if you want to run things like Netflix. It's only good a s a media device if you've allready ripped films and use the xmbc port.
Hence just a quick heads up, invade anyone wanted something similar.
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Farnell reported 600 orders a second. I got my order through at around 8:30 so I'm not surprised my shipping date has slipped back a little..
That's a good thing. The more cheap tech out there, the better.
I have my tech based on this all ready to roll, I just need to lay my hands on one and there's probably at least 20% of you would find it perfect 
I'll get some details up soonish. Had lots of awesome ideas over the years and I always take too long and someone else comes up with it
Will be cracking on with the current one very quick 
I'll get some details up soonish. Had lots of awesome ideas over the years and I always take too long and someone else comes up with it
Will be cracking on with the current one very quick I know it probably wouldn't be allowed but my question a while back in the rc plane thread was is it possible to fly via a laptop using the internet and a mobile or 3g dongle, if so imagine how long range a uav could be, you could send it off to some gps coordinates in the next town over presuming you have enough power, all while sending back video live over the internet and mobile network which automatically jumps from tower to tower, how cool would that be!?
That's quite an interesting one actually. It probably wouldn't be too hard to find a suitably lightweight USB gps transciever for laptop use. Add a few relays controlled from USB a little coding, and a camera and get it to relay pretty accurate co-ordinates as well as flying it from the laptop.
Pretty sure the rules on UAV's are changing soon too.
You might be better with a Gertboard for controlling relays/motors. There was a lot more info about it on the official R-Pi site, but the forums are not back yet.
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ooh that looks interesting!
Doing lab projects atm at Uni, and probably would've included a R-Pi if I could have
I have registered interest, plan on a media centre in the future perhaps but mainly just to play with!
Posted this in the other thread but might as well plonk it here too. Farnell are sending out emails to people who registered interest and are allowing you to pre-order one (one per customer!)
Keep an eye out for emails if you registered.
Keep an eye out for emails if you registered.
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I got my email a few hours ago and got it odered now. I've a delivery date of 24th April. Hopefully there will be some progress re XBMC by then!
It doesnt exist. (which we all know anyway).
There seems to be a lot of hate for this. I can understand that it's not for everybody, and a lot of people dont understand the aims of the project, which is fine...If you dont want 1, just ignore it. I dont understand why people are going out of their way to post crap about it.
I suppose it's the same for anything popular (ipods, etc), there are lots of haters trying to show others how unique and non-mainstream they are
Same as me! It's going to be a long wait but interesting when it arrives.
A little disappointing that there wasn't a single update or comment from the developers yesterday, their website links to a twitter feed that hasn't had a update since 6pm Wednesday, I can understand that this has been exhausting for them and is a massive undertaking for such a small group but it just doesn't sit very well.
Either way with a bit of luck the massive hype may have encouraged a few of the tech companies involved to pull their fingers out and get things moving a bit quicker, haven't ordered one yet but I definitely plan to once a few ideas have evolved a bit.
Either way with a bit of luck the massive hype may have encouraged a few of the tech companies involved to pull their fingers out and get things moving a bit quicker, haven't ordered one yet but I definitely plan to once a few ideas have evolved a bit.