Raspberry PI $25 PC

Doge

CaSCaDe711 wrote: »

Just read there's a new delay now due to them needing electromagnetic testing :rolleyes:

The full story was put up on the blog by Liz yesterday, with some great pics of the boards in the factory in China:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/878


I suppose this CE mark will help open up a larger market for Farnell & RS,

all it means to us is a longer wait though. The Pi team don't think it really needs CE certification, and never did, and rightly so.

GreenWolfe

From the comments of that link:

Thanks for the kind words. We’re incredibly lucky to have received support from a number of high-net-worth individuals in the Cambridge area, so we can afford to cover the (totally unexpected) cost of bringing the uncased device into conformance. It’s a setback, but not one that could derail us or cause us to vary the pricing.

Looks like they were able to get a few wealthy people in Cambridge to cover the cost of certification. It could be worse, if they hadn't had that backing (and reading between the lines, they must have been frantically looking for extra funds for the past few weeks) it's likely they'd be asking for more money, or deposits maybe.

In any case, it was nice to see pictures of manufactured Pi's - that they're real. Liz (I think) said on the comments the photos were embedded into the status report she got from RS/E14 reps at the factory floor, so they don't have hi-res pictures.

The CE/FCC marking delay is annoying, but I wouldn't be surprised if some parasite used the issue to delay the project even further by using that as an excuse.

Khannie

waveform wrote: »

The full story was put up on the blog by Liz yesterday, with some great pics of the boards in the factory in China:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/878

Interesting side note: The bottom of that article is the first time I've seen the google+ "+1" number anywhere even vaguely approaching the facebook "like" number. Fairly obvious that the geeks migrated to google+ (myself included) more than average Joe's.

Doge

I think I may need to get in on this G+ action, although I'm not sure if anyone I know anyone who's using it!

Here's another quote from Eben just before the one Earthly posted:

Eben wrote:

"Fortunately, there’s basically no chance the board won’t meet spec. It’s well designed, and we did a run in the test chamber a couple of days ago that only just missed despite the fact the HDMI was misconfigured (and therefore radiating like mad)."

Looking good so far!

The IDC header pins will be pre-soldered on the boards afterall,
as the price quoted was cheap enough.

Eben actually left those in the Bill of Materials by accident when giving them to the factory, but it turned out to be affordable!

unkel

Did anyone read the wikipedia article started earlier this month?

Doge

unkel wrote: »

Did anyone read the wikipedia article started earlier this month?

I don't understand what you mean.

It's been up there since 2011?

GreenWolfe

unkel wrote: »

Did anyone read the wikipedia article started earlier this month?

They have their own wiki - http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard

unkel

waveform wrote: »

I don't understand what you mean.

It's been up there since 2011?

Oops my mistake. Didn't see it until recently

Doge

unkel wrote: »

Oops my mistake. Didn't see it until recently

Ah cool! I thought there might have been some new kind of page, that was only created this month with more information or something!

Doge

Kind of lazy relaying Blog posts into this thread lately,
but here's some piccies of the 2000 boards that touched down on UK soil during the week for compliance testing!

Volovo

Fantastic can't wait to play with one

seanin4711

just about to order the Pi and woundering about t-shirt sizing.
are the XL's very big ?
are the large on the smallish side?
just wondering.

seanin4711

when I fill in my details and click submit order it takes me to a webpage with a list of worldwide countries with no English speaking ones at all!
oh what to do!
confused!

never mind
all done now!

GreenWolfe

Continuing the whole relaying blog posts thing - I spotted this at the RPi forums.

Quick update: still in Wales (at the Institute for Welsh Affairs, where we've begged the use of an office for Eben to do his webinar at). Testing's going really swimmingly; because we've got the use of the test chamber all week we've decided to make sure we're certified for FCC, CTick (Australia) and what we've all been referring to as "That Canadian thing". We're all done with emissions; now we have to test for EM immunity, which should be finished later today (we've got the test chamber booked all evening) or tomorrow.

I'm quietly confident that testing is going well

GreenWolfe

The RPi webinar from a few days ago has been put up on the element 14 site. It's a YouTube video, so no special logins required.

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-44459/l/video-programming-the-raspberry-pi-with-raspberry-pi-co-founder-eben-upton

No point in embedding it here, it's just over an hour long. The Q & A session is interesting. Turns out the Debian and Fedora distros don't have hard floating point - this was the first I heard of it. I'm led to believe that if the distros can be recompiled with this feature it should get better overall performance.

This, along with the issue that the X server isn't hooked up to the binary blob means that there's still some performance to be squeezed out of it yet.

Baz5789

Going to open alot of doors to people and new ideas. I hope

Doge

It passed!




http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/978

Doge

Now all that's left to be done is some intensive paper work!

Fair play for them for working hard through a bank holiday!

massy086

just got a your order has been shipped from farnell WOO HOO !!!!!!!! UPS ARE DELIVERING IT got a tracking number and all

Doge

massy086 wrote: »

just got a your order has been shipped from farnell WOO HOO !!!!!!!! UPS ARE DELIVERING IT got a tracking number and all

It was totally unexpected wasn't it?

It appears the first 10K longer to sell out than what was thought!

Next thing to do now is decide which case we want for it!

This "RaspBerry Slice" case by fellow Irishman Brian Garvey is extremely impressive and cute, I can see it being a really cool hit with young kids!

I'd love to know if this guy is on boards.ie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6WcazMu8OQ

He also has a design video, and another video of him making a mould for the "blister pack" packaging.


Another cool case design worth mentioning is by fellow boards member Steve SI, who plans on housing his in an original Gameboy case.

Check out his thread for this case complete with 3D model case porn video!


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056532927

Doge

EDIT: FALSE ALARM - THE STATUS HAS GONE GREEN AGAIN AND SHIPPING HAS RESUMED

IGNORE THE REST OF THIS POST

I just received an exception update by e-mail, which I requested earlier in case of such an event.

I urge everyone who has a tracking number, to check the tracking page right now.

"Leeds, United Kingdom 13/04/2012 20:09 The service selected is not available to the destination address / Downgraded, forwarded to consignee, selected service is not available"

It sounds like something to do with International shipping, perhaps Farnell paid for mainland or something.

It depends what they mean by "cosignee", not sure if that means us, or farnell.

GreenWolfe

I've still heard nothing from Farnell. I have no idea if I was in the first batch from Farnell, I'll just have to continue waiting

Doge

EarthlyPangaea wrote: »

I've still heard nothing from Farnell. I have no idea if I was in the first batch from Farnell, I'll just have to continue waiting

It seems like they were was a few seperate dispatches today.

Might be more soon.

Doge

It has arrived!

Here's a quick few piccies:






Can't wait to get Debian up and running this evening.

Redisle

Being very careful there with what looks like a DX ESD strap

Looks good. Will probably order one shortly. (Waiting till after the exams).

Any immediate plans other than messing about with it for now?

Doge

Redisle wrote: »

Being very careful there with what looks like a DX ESD strap

Looks good. Will probably order one shortly. (Waiting till after the exams).

Any immediate plans other than messing about with it for now?

Yesterday I zapped the dog, and any metal object I touched.

Quickly realized that Croc's shoes generate a **** load of static, so I wasn't taking any chances wearing them round the house today.

Just for now I'll be using it as a simple wireless file server with my external HDD attached, a wireless print server as my printer lacks wireless, media centre, and Linux learning device!

KyussBishop

Woo just got mine *nerdgasm*

seanin4711

KyussBishop wrote: »

Woo just got mine *nerdgasm*

as above.
just so I have an idea when to expect my one!
cheers

EJ22

Man I really hope they start stocking these again soon, missed the boat for the first load but the possibilities with these are endless.

KyussBishop

Ah I was in pretty early, the morning they went on sale Got my preorder in eventually, while the Farnell website was being emaciated, from thousands trying to preorder.