Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?
Discussion
rst99 said:
I registered with RS at 6am and finally got onto Farnell after lunch and got a delivery date of 16/4/12.
The launch was a total shambles.
It sort of is a shambles, but at the same time it just goes to show the creators have had a great idea and people want it. Put it this way, you'd rather your suppliers servers burnt to the ground with people tripping over each other to get one than stamping out 10k units and having nobody buy them.The launch was a total shambles.
Seems they just massively underestimated the desire for these things.
Good job we didnt need to order stuff from Farnell today (we order lots of components from them for various experiments)!
Calling this a shambles is a bit disingenuous...
A charity got two large scale component retailers to handle the sales and distribution of their product.
The product went on sale off peak (6am) the charity website slimmed down and provided the links to the retailers.
The fact that the world went mad for this product with people obviously getting out of bed early to register/buy, was something beyond the resources of a charity - yes the two commercial organisations could have scaled up, they would have known that the launch was going to be popular what with BBC coverage and the volumes of initial downloads.
You cannot compare this with Olympic tickets or an Ipad launch...
Of course if you think you can do better you could always volunteer to help ;-)
All imho of course and I've nothing to do with RaspberryPi apart from being a ex programmer/kernel hacker who knows these guys are totally right - and hoping that they can assist in developing some of the qualities lacking in IT education today.
A charity got two large scale component retailers to handle the sales and distribution of their product.
The product went on sale off peak (6am) the charity website slimmed down and provided the links to the retailers.
The fact that the world went mad for this product with people obviously getting out of bed early to register/buy, was something beyond the resources of a charity - yes the two commercial organisations could have scaled up, they would have known that the launch was going to be popular what with BBC coverage and the volumes of initial downloads.
You cannot compare this with Olympic tickets or an Ipad launch...
Of course if you think you can do better you could always volunteer to help ;-)
All imho of course and I've nothing to do with RaspberryPi apart from being a ex programmer/kernel hacker who knows these guys are totally right - and hoping that they can assist in developing some of the qualities lacking in IT education today.
Anyone who complains about server capacity, websites crashing and other assorted moans is missing the point by a cooking LIGHT YEAR.
'Oh yes the launch price was going to be £25 but it's now £100 because we had to invest in Amazon scale servers and a heavy duty website to service demand from freaks who must have everything on the launch day".
Muppetry of the highest order. Shut up and buy it when the fuss has died down.
'Oh yes the launch price was going to be £25 but it's now £100 because we had to invest in Amazon scale servers and a heavy duty website to service demand from freaks who must have everything on the launch day".
Muppetry of the highest order. Shut up and buy it when the fuss has died down.
cazzer said:
liking the description 
Zad said:
I understand from the Pi's main site that Farnell and RS are also taking over responsibility for production, paying the designers a royalty. I can't think of any retailers who would commit to something like that, they demand a 200-400% mark-up on retail products, and the Pi is pretty much selling at cost price.
Seems I missed the boat on this one as I quite fancy designing a case myself. Any ideas if the dimensions of the board are available?As to the sites crashing: who remembers the product launches that didn't make the news?
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Odie said:
Are any of you guys buying them, developers?
I am 
My plan is to try and get a lilliput touchscreen working with it, and put together a carPC 
I like the car pc idea, I was wondering if a 7" tablet screen would work with it too, for car pc or whatever.
I'm more a hardware hacker, Id like to get one to finally get my head around Linux. Was curious to read that wine isn't compatible due to architecture, wonder how long before someone has a fix for that.
I'm more a hardware hacker, Id like to get one to finally get my head around Linux. Was curious to read that wine isn't compatible due to architecture, wonder how long before someone has a fix for that.
Odie said:
I like the car pc idea, I was wondering if a 7" tablet screen would work with it too, for car pc or whatever.
I'm more a hardware hacker, Id like to get one to finally get my head around Linux. Was curious to read that wine isn't compatible due to architecture, wonder how long before someone has a fix for that.
Wine gives you windows emulation, windows today runs on intel... RapberryPi is Arm, completely different processor architecture and ethos... thats going to be one hell of a fix. I'm more a hardware hacker, Id like to get one to finally get my head around Linux. Was curious to read that wine isn't compatible due to architecture, wonder how long before someone has a fix for that.
Even Microsoft are not offering compatibility between Windows8 Apps and Windows8 for Arm Apps.
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