Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

[ajprice]

Got the mag from Tesco on the way home, last one on the shelf.

USB stick for scale.

[SystemParanoia]

Grabbed the last 2 from in asda. Everywhere else sold out!

Ill buy more for embedded projects, but kids will love these!! They're gonna have to learn howto solder headers now too

[boxst]

Couldn't find the magazine in Tesco Going to have a look in WH Smith tomorrow.

[Halmyre]

In case you missed out at WH Smiths:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-MagPi-Magazine-with-...

OK, an extreme example but people have been paying £30+...

[RizzoTheRat]

Muppets. Why would anyone do that when you can download the magazine for free and buy a Pi Zero for £4?

[loudlashadjuster]

RizzoTheRat said:

Muppets. Why would anyone do that when you can download the magazine for free and buy a Pi Zero for £4?

Quite. I see someone paid £49 for one. Madness.

I'm usually against gouging people on stuff like this but hell, if they act so dumb then they probably deserve it and I should've picked up all six copies I saw yesterday, flogged the other five and bought the missus something nice for Xmas.

[RizzoTheRat]

Had a quick skim through the PDF of the mag with my coffee, some interesting articles. Reminds me very much of my BBC micro days as there's a section on writing a space invaders game with all the code to type in (although these days download the PDF and cut and paste) that seems to be building as a monthly series. Anyone else remember those mags form the '80s?I never did manage to debug that BBC game I really should do more with my Pi than just use it as a cheap media player.

[clonmult]

I'm going to pop into WH Smiths later .... not sure what I'll actually do with the Pi Zero, but think my son will be interested in a play - he's getting into coding in a big way.

[ajprice]

Halmyre said:

In case you missed out at WH Smiths:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-MagPi-Magazine-with-...

OK, an extreme example but people have been paying £30+...

16 listings for the mag, still sealed in the plastic bags and everything!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_tr...

[boxst]

Tried a couple of places and no one had one unfortunately.

What did surprise me is that my local newsagent still has a rather healthy selection of porn magazines. I thought they'd all gone bankrupt.

[marctwo]

boxst said:

Tried a couple of places and no one had one unfortunately.

Same here. It's probably for the best though as I already have 4 Pi's !

[dxg]

http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=13778

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/how-to-get-magpi...

[RizzoTheRat]

WHS at Gatwick south terminal had one copy of the November issue, didn't think to check in North intil it was too late.

I'll probably leave it a few weeks to order one as I suspect the retailers are swamped as well.

[boxst]

Chatting to a shop assistant in whsmith this morning who said she was fed up with people asking for the magazine. I was the tenth on this sleepy wet Sunday morning and I live in the middle of nowhere.

I imagine in areas with a high population the shops are completely fed up!

[spants]

RizzoTheRat said:

WHS at Gatwick south terminal had one copy of the November issue, didn't think to check in North intil it was too late.

I'll probably leave it a few weeks to order one as I suspect the retailers are swamped as well.

I saw that November one inside the Terminal too.

If you had walked outside to the London Book Store (its owned by W H Smiths) next to the lifts to go to the pick up points, they had quite a few copies. I bought 2 on friday evening!

[daveake]

ajprice said:

So could one of these be networked or put online at all, wired or wifi?

Yes you can use a USB network adapter - wireless or wired.

[daveake]

eharding said:

Aimed firmly at those who want an embedded Pi, and at this price you can afford to embed them in anything and everything.

Yup. In my case I embed Pis and other boards in weather balloon payloads (see this fairly long thread from when I started); here's my Pi Zero effort:



The weight saving is very welcome, though it's a shame that I can't connect a Pi camera to it.

[SystemParanoia]

daveake said:

ajprice said:

So could one of these be networked or put online at all, wired or wifi?

Yes you can use a USB network adapter - wireless or wired.

You can also use usb teathering and network it directly fron the usb to usb. Only a small edit of /etc/interfaces needed

[RizzoTheRat]

spants said:

I saw that November one inside the Terminal too.

If you had walked outside to the London Book Store (its owned by W H Smiths) next to the lifts to go to the pick up points, they had quite a few copies. I bought 2 on friday evening!

Bugger. I saw that shop on my way in last night but didn't have a look. None in the London Book Store in north terminal last night either. Would have given me something to read while we were sat on the sodding tarmac for 2 hours!

[SystemParanoia]

heres a printable pin out guide
just wedge it onto the raspberry pi's pins



source : http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2015-03/29-raspberr...

git : https://github.com/splitbrain/rpibplusleaf.git