Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

d_brennen · 28 Feb 2012 at 01:03

PermaBanned said:
God damnit. It's a device with the intended purpose of facilitating education, and then they go and put it up at an impossible time for students?

It's a life lesson, you can have what you want if you're quick and have the money

dalin80 · 28 Feb 2012 at 08:01

Out of curiosity would a 7.2v rc battery pack result in instant death for the thing, I notice that they state it will run fine off 4xAA but iam getting intrigued by making up a case including a fairly beefy battery with the only charging point being a connector for said battery.

Alternatively iam thinking wiring my own 5xAA (1.2v eneloop) pack at which point the issue would become taking it all apart to charge them.

Evilpaul · 28 Feb 2012 at 08:08

On sale at 6AM tomorrow!
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/716

I hate early starts :/

PaulyD · 28 Feb 2012 at 09:00

I get up at 5:45 tomorrow anyway so I am sorted

dalin80 · 28 Feb 2012 at 11:26

So how long until the first over clocking attempts come in then?

R088ieS86 · 28 Feb 2012 at 11:49

I wonder how long the site will stay up. Going to crash me thinks!

OptimaLnrg · 28 Feb 2012 at 12:06

If they're for education I hope they're durable. I helped set up a 400 pc IT centre in my old secondary school last year june. ALL of the monitors have had the button part of the bezels torn off already.

Memphis · 28 Feb 2012 at 13:12

R088ieS86 said:
I wonder how long the site will stay up. Going to crash me thinks!

I seriously hope they are prepared for the amount of interest the site will have at 6am tomorrow.

OptimaLnrg said:
If they're for education I hope they're durable. I helped set up a 400 pc IT centre in my old secondary school last year june. ALL of the monitors have had the button part of the bezels torn off already.

To be fair, these aren't exactly designed for an openly accessible IT centre. They should really be for specific IT/technology classes. Fortunately if they are broken, it's not going to break the budget to replace them, once they are slightly more readily available anyhow.

Vonhelmet · 28 Feb 2012 at 13:31

OptimaLnrg said:
If they're for education I hope they're durable. I helped set up a 400 pc IT centre in my old secondary school last year june. ALL of the monitors have had the button part of the bezels torn off already.

I imagine this is aimed at university students, not 12 year olds.

inSilica · 28 Feb 2012 at 14:45

Vonhelmet said:
I imagine this is aimed at university students, not 12 year olds.

Sorry to burst your bubble but you imagined wrong! This primary target for this is high school (GCSE / A-Level) as a means to train more programmers in the UK / worldwide? in a cost effective manner.

University students should have access to much higher calibre software / hardware, at least I hope given the tuition fees paid!

Having said that there is nothing wrong with teaching PI at uni and believe it or now many will find it very challenging to get one up and running without being spoon fed, yes at Uni level

R088ieS86 said:
I wonder how long the site will stay up. Going to crash me thinks!

hehehe. It will crash soon after

was my reaction as soon as I saw the press announcement

OptimaLnrg said:
If they're for education I hope they're durable. I helped set up a 400 pc IT centre in my old secondary school last year june. ALL of the monitors have had the button part of the bezels torn off already.

They are not designed to be durable, they're designed to be replaceable, .... cheaply! If a student breaks it, 15£ is quite affordable

lewism · 28 Feb 2012 at 15:41

Debating or not whether I want one enough to get up at 6...Go on then i'll be up anyway. Hopefully i'll get one.

dalin80 · 28 Feb 2012 at 18:33

is it only available from their site? I ask as iam pretty certain that that server is damned.

"andy" · 28 Feb 2012 at 18:36

first batch is only available from that site yes. i expect mass face palming

dalin80 · 28 Feb 2012 at 18:52

yeah, I cant see that ending well.

I can sense great frustration in my future of trying to get the thing to work as and be powered as I want it.

Evilpaul · 28 Feb 2012 at 20:15

Well, seeing as some moron has posted a link to it on HotUKDeals then chances of getting one tomorrow have got a whole lot slimmer.

I can also foresee lots of people not realising what they've just bought and subsequently giving the charity bad feedback / negative press.

elrasho · 28 Feb 2012 at 20:39

Evilpaul said:
Well, seeing as some moron has posted a link to it on HotUKDeals then chances of getting one tomorrow have got a whole lot slimmer.

I can also foresee lots of people not realising what they've just bought and subsequently giving the charity bad feedback / negative press.

Yep saw that. Some dumb ass security guard working a 12 hour shift will buy one thinking its an electronic pie making machine <sigh>. Im normally up at 6.30am, but gonna set my alarm for 5.55am...I have an SSD drive

rikky · 28 Feb 2012 at 20:41

OpenELEC on the RaspBerry Pi (B) model:
http://www.openelec.tv/component/k2/item/235-openelec-on-raspberry-pi-our-first-arm-device-supported

Wonder how passable it will be as an ultra-cheap HTPC.

Bigsy · 28 Feb 2012 at 20:42

I predict that the site will be completely dead from about 5am onwards... I want one but its just not going to happen tomorrow morning....

rogan · 28 Feb 2012 at 20:47

Evilpaul said:
Well, seeing as some moron has posted a link to it on HotUKDeals then chances of getting one tomorrow have got a whole lot slimmer.

I can also foresee lots of people not realising what they've just bought and subsequently giving the charity bad feedback / negative press.

moronic comments such as 'doesnt even have anything on it when you start it up' starting.... 9 hours from now

elrasho · 28 Feb 2012 at 20:48

rogan said:
moronic comments such as 'doesnt even have anything on it when you start it up' starting.... 9 hours from now

what!? Doesn't it come with Windows 7, not even a 32-bit version!!!???