Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B - £30 (€38.15) [The Pi Hut]

Allyall

The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B - £30 + £3.50 Delivery to Ireland = €42.62 Delivered.


Description:

The Raspberry Pi just got juicer! Now with a Quad-Core 64bit CPU, WiFi & Bluetooth!
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is the third generation Raspberry Pi. This powerful credit-card sized single board computer can be used for many applications and supersedes the original Raspberry Pi Model B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
Whilst maintaining the popular board format the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B brings you a more powerful processor, 10x faster than the first generation Raspberry Pi.
Additionally it adds wireless LAN & Bluetooth connectivity making it the ideal solution for powerful connected designs.
Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B Technical Specification

• Broadcom BCM2387 chipset
• 1.2GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53
• 802.11 bgn Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1 (Bluetooth Classic and LE)
• 1GB RAM
• 64 Bit CPU
• 4 x USB ports
• 4 pole Stereo output and Composite video port
• Full size HDMI
• 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socketbr
• CSI camera port for connecting the Raspberry Pi camera
• DSI display port for connecting the Raspberry Pi touch screen display
• Micro SD port for loading your operating system and storing data
• Micro USB power source

Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B Features

• Now 10x Faster - Broadcom BCM2387 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad Core Processor powered Single Board Computer running at 1.2GHz!
• 1GB RAM so you can now run bigger and more powerful applications
• Fully HAT compatible
• 40pin extended GPIO to enhance your “real world” projects.
• Connect a Raspberry Pi camera and touch screen display (each sold separately)
• Stream and watch Hi-definition video output at 1080
• Micro SD slot for storing information and loading your operating systems.
• 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket to quickly connect the Raspberry Pi to the Internet

CreepingDeath

Looks good alright, a bargain if you were about to buy an older version.

There's also RPi clones, like "Banana Pi" which can be cheaper, but have slightly different hardware so they're not 100% compatible with the Pi, including different Camera modules.

But for anyone who needs more power, there's an Oct-Core Banana Pi for €82.90 here, with built in wifi, bluetooth and IR module for remote control.

Banani Pi Oct-Core, 2Gb RAM

Tinder Surprise

at the price you really cant go wrong with a Rpi but (and this is going to sound so selfish) if they had just bumped the RAM up to 2gb this would have elevated the Rpi3 into another stratosphere.


but again an absolutely brilliant piece of kit for the price with so many options and support out there.

liking the built in Wifi which frees up a USB.

Damn it , I have a pi 2 in the post ordered the other day and a wifi dongle, didn't think the 3 was being released for a while yet

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Bought the Media Centre Kit. Completely new to Pi but its always fascinated me so will give it a try. Thanks OP.

eeguy

The big question is, what emulators can it now run?

Tinder Surprise

eeguy wrote: »

The big question is, what emulators can it now run?

via KODI?

eeguy

Tinder Surprise wrote: »

via KODI?

Via Picade or RetroPi

Alanstrainor

I have the PI2 running my media centre with Kodi. Great device, I also have my PI1 runnnig a little weather station which you can see here:


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057537296

foggy_lad

If you place this into basket and go straight to pay with PayPal it does not add the £3,50 postage, will they still send it I wonder?

They boot ytou back to the shipping stage to add the postage:(

Duggy747

Big fan of the Pis, had just gotten my Pi 2 back after lending it out but not sure if it's dead or the crappy SD card gave up.

On-board Wifi & Bluetooth a definite plus as well as some boost to CPU power, but more RAM would've been a preferable focus.

I use these guys for Kodi + emulation, which the Pi 2 handles sound for a lot of PS1 games I threw at it. Be interesting to see what devs can get with this, probably better N64 + Mame support........maybe even Dreamcast this time around.

CreepingDeath

Duggy747 wrote: »

...had just gotten my Pi 2 back after lending it out but not sure if it's dead or the crappy SD card gave up.

Or during transport the little plastic lock flip switch on the SD Card got set to lock.

Duggy747

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Or during transport the little plastic lock flip switch on the SD Card got set to lock.

It's a micro SD card with no lock switch, it's a cheap branded one anyways that's given plenty of trouble before so I'm certain that's what's wrong with it before even looking at Pi, I was just too lazy to dump it when I had it in use :pac:

Anywho, here's some benchmarks compared to the 1st & 2nd versions of the Pi. Seems to have quite an increase in CPU temps when you put it under pressure.

Allyall

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Looks good alright, a bargain if you were about to buy an older version.

There's also RPi clones, like "Banana Pi" which can be cheaper, but have slightly different hardware so they're not 100% compatible with the Pi, including different Camera modules.

But for anyone who needs more power, there's an Oct-Core Banana Pi for €82.90 here, with built in wifi, bluetooth and IR module for remote control.

Banani Pi Oct-Core, 2Gb RAM

There's also the Orange Pi which is compatible with the RPi2.
Orange Pi
Aliexpress Store

Excellent bit of kit for the price, and it does work, but I just don't yet fully trust the H3 Chips. They seem to have been a bit of a rush job. But for €13.60 or whatever, the OrangePi PC (version) is excellent.

Screw it I can't resist the new one even with pi 2 modlel b in the post , can anyone recommend any of the cases on that site? Been looking in other places over the weekend and some of the commentary suggests I need to take care with cases as many are ill fitting or ports dont line up and some cases are blocked.

Invincible

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Screw it I can't resist the new one even with pi 2 modlel b in the post , can anyone recommend any of the cases on that site? Been looking in other places over the weekend and some of the commentary suggests I need to take care with cases as many are ill fitting or ports dont line up and some cases are blocked.

Got the Flirc case off Amazon with parcel wizard delivery, fits fine and has heat sink.
Think it came from Pi Hut.
Edit: I see it's gone up to £20 now, was £15 on Amazon when I got it.

fumij

can it support 1000 Ethernet ?

fumij

fumij wrote: »

can it support 1000 Ethernet ?

10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket

So no is the answer.

digitaldr

Just a quick tip for anyone planning to run kodi on a pi - a USB install (just Google it) runs much faster and I've never had any issues with SD card corruption. Also CEC rocks although needed to remap a few buttons.

GAAman

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Screw it I can't resist the new one even with pi 2 modlel b in the post , can anyone recommend any of the cases on that site? Been looking in other places over the weekend and some of the commentary suggests I need to take care with cases as many are ill fitting or ports dont line up and some cases are blocked.

I've had pi 1+2 and I've made Lego cases for both. If it's in an elevated position and falls the Lego takes the impact and just pops apart, with a rigid case you might get port or pin damage

n1ck

Much cheaper here - http://ie.rs-online.com/web/c/semiconductors/semiconductor-development-kits/processor-microcontroller-development-kits/?#applied-dimensions=4294544366

By much, I mean a small bit.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

n1ck wrote: »

Much cheaper here - http://ie.rs-online.com/web/c/semiconductors/semiconductor-development-kits/processor-microcontroller-development-kits/?#applied-dimensions=4294544366

By much, I mean a small bit.

Those prices exclude VAT and I can't see the Pi3.

n1ck

Techmaster wrote: »

Those prices exclude VAT and I can't see the Pi3.

Search for it. I was not aware that they excluded VAT, there goes that

5rtytry56

GAAman wrote: »

I've had pi 1+2 and I've made Lego cases for both. If it's in an elevated position and falls the Lego takes the impact and just pops apart, with a rigid case you might get port or pin damage

The plastic casing on my Pi + and Pi 2 has broken the micro sd card when i attempted to remove it - the sd card was snapped, happened on 3 occasions. I know now how to avoid this. may post a picture here of what happened.

n1ck

n1ck wrote: »

Search for it. I was not aware that they excluded VAT, there goes that

Yeah they are more for the trade but sell to average Joe too, the shipping from them is excellent though , think it's 4.40 and sent by TnT on the last few bits I got from them.

n1ck

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah they are more for the trade but sell to average Joe too, the shipping from them is excellent though , think it's 4.40 and sent by TnT on the last few bits I got from them.

Yea they are mostly aimed at trade, used to always go into the "shop" with my Dad when I was younger!

Can't fault the delivery though but with VAT the Pi 3 is ~€50 unfortunately.

Star Lord

I ordered my Pi 2b from Radionics website, was delivered by a guy in a Radionics van the next day!

Allyall

Star Lord wrote: »

I ordered my Pi 2b from Radionics website, was delivered by a guy in a Radionics can the next day!

Like this?

Star Lord

Allyall wrote: »

Like this?

hadn't spotted that typo!

illdoit2morrow

digitaldr wrote: »

Just a quick tip for anyone planning to run kodi on a pi - a USB install (just Google it) runs much faster and I've never had any issues with SD card corruption. Also CEC rocks although needed to remap a few buttons.

This is true for the rpi 1, but not so much for the pi2 and the new pi3.

The latter two can run fine with just the SD card install as they've increased RAM.

murphyebass

Always been interested to see what the hypes all about.

Bought one but don't really know what I'll do with it.

Something around gaming but other than I'll have to do a lot of googling.

Definately gonna build a Lego case though!! :-)

Got an 8 gb noob card to go with it. Probably way too small but will give me an idea what I'm working with.

Where's the cheapest place to get a power supply. The official one was sold out on pi hut.

Cheers op... I think.

eeguy

murphyebass wrote: »

Where's the cheapest place to get a power supply. The official one was sold out on pi hut.

Its a standard 2A phone charger with a micro usb. You can buy them anywhere really.
Looks like they're back in stock: http://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-power-supplies/products/micro-usb-power-supply-for-the-raspberry-pi

fuse

eeguy wrote: »

Its a standard 2A phone charger with a micro usb. You can buy them anywhere really.
Looks like they're back in stock: http://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-power-supplies/products/micro-usb-power-supply-for-the-raspberry-pi

Don't just pick up any ol cheap one, make sure its 5V 2A

Raoul

fuse wrote: »

Don't just pick up any ol cheap one, make sure its 5V 2A

Was going to say this. Otherwise you will get a little rainbow in the corner all the time of the power isn't perfect

murphyebass

Raoul wrote: »

Was going to say this. Otherwise you will get a little rainbow in the corner all the time of the power isn't perfect

Got a decent one there I think/hope on Amazon a minute ago.

Also ordered:

HDMI cable
Usb keyboard
I have a usb mouse at home somewhere
And I'm going to house the pi in Lego.

And I bought this from Amazon as well I might add as they ask for stupid money in shops.

http://www.pcworld.ie/Mobile/Product/aoc-i2369vm-full-hd-23-ips-led-monitor-with-mhl/315442/397.1.0

So what originally was a small outlay has now cost me in the region of €260 total.

I'll have a nice wee setup all the same. Lol.

I plan on using the monitor for regular pi stuff and also a bit of gaming from my ps4.

Had been contemplating one. For a while and the pi purchase just commented the idea.

I like this particular monitor as it has two HDMI ports and speakers (as terrible as I'm sure they'll be).

I can use it for streaming from my iPad etc for the odd footie game or cartoons for the kids, etc..

I know it's not the fastest gaming monitor out there but it'll do me grand.

tonyfillony

went ahead and bought this, I already have a Pi 1 but its a big sluggish running Kodi.
Going to see if i can build a dual boot with kodi and retropie

fumij

should i buy a powerful tv box or this Raspberry Pi 3 ?