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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : (RP) Raspberry Pi Ordered.
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donmck Guru  Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
I was just invited to order my Raspberry Pi, with expected delivery in 8 weeks. David U., have you got yours yet? BTW OlinuXino-Maxi expected in 2 weeks. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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jebz Regular Member  Joined: 13/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 79 |
Was it via the UK RS site? |
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| djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
Don, I have cancelled my order for the Pi I am over it already OlinuXino-Maxi sounds the way to go. VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
Yes, Allied Electronics & RS Components $8.02USD for postage to oz. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
I know you are right David, but I wanted one for comparisons etc. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| rhamer Senior Member  Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 174 |
A guy I know ordered one on the day of release, and he got it about 2 weeks ago. So far he just walks around showing it to people, I don't think he has even powered it up. Cheers Rohan Rohan Hamer HAMFIELD Software & Hardware Solutions Makers of the Maximite Expander. http://www.hamfield.com.au |
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| djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
A lot will end up not being used. There appears to be a major "Flavour of the month" factor . One of my nephews said his LANparty clan had ordered several but they had no idea what a microcontroller could be used for!!. VK4MU MicroController Units |
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vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Some times, advertising can kill a product by attracting to much people from the wrong areas... They don't know that Raspberry PI is not OpenPandora or Beagle. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| mookster1 Regular Member Joined: 10/06/2011 Location: New ZealandPosts: 81 |
My order notification came on Thursday, so I ordered it and my Pi's been baked right now (sorry, just had to say that  ) and it should be cooked (ouch!  ) and in my letterbox in 6 weeks.
I have several uses planned for mine, including using it to give the Maximite a colour video output over composite (I'm too squeamish to modify my Maximite so it has colour VGA but as the Pi has a serial port and composite/HDMI out I figured I can write a program to do graphics over the serial port with far more than 8 colours, and potentially far higher resolution )Capacitance is futile - roll on 2012! |
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Keith @ Senior Member Joined: 19/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 167 |
Hey Don Whilst I understand your need to try the Raspberry Pi ... here's another upstart (or is that start up) that may be of interest to people for $49+ shipping that might just do the job for something they are thinking about or just to play! http://apc.io and http://www.legitreviews.com/news/13199/ regards Keith The more we know, the more we know we don't know ! |
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| djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
Nice board VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
Thanks Keith, Runs Android 2.3 and has no GPIO. I'll assume that it will run Linux, but I don't see any mention. Without GPIO, it falls a little short for my purposes, but interesting at the price. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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elproducts Senior Member Joined: 19/06/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 282 |
At the Ann Arbor, Michigan Mini-MakerFaire a robotics club member had the Rasberry-Pi running. He had just received it a week earlier and had it driving a VGA monitor, reading a keyboard and mouse and running some simple Linux code. He has plans to control a robot from it. He was excited about it but I could not get a clear understanding of why it was better for his robot projects than any other module. I asked him about the Maximite and he drew a blank look. He had no idea what it was. www.elproducts.com |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Problems with Raspberry (anyone seen this link?): [quote]This thing is beyond a joke. I'd be embarrased to have made this. I'll stick to my PIC chips - at least you know where you are with those.[/quote] Note: bold text attribute by me. http://digital-diy.com/forum/general-electronics/raspberry-p oo-t2212.html ___________ Edit: It is possible that the board was designed by the software guys like me? Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
R-Pi Troubleshooting. Just wondering how many they have out there. http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
Another interesting link, very similar to the one Vasi mentioned, however a different customer: http://www.hacking.majenko.co.uk/raspberry-poo Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| ArtBecker Regular Member Joined: 25/08/2011 Location: PhilippinesPosts: 47 |
The biggest problem with the Pi is that it was conceived by "educators," who spend their lives essentially isolated from the real world. They came up with this fantasy concept of a $25 computer, to be used to teach young people programming. Never mind that the $25 concept has already proven impossible, and there is absolutely no proof that young people even want to learn programming. What's more, there is absolutely no way that any of this will be ready for the next school year, nor has it been established that any school is even interested in the project at all, much less there being an approved curriculum involving the Pi. The "educators" determined way ahead of time that there would be an official Linux distro supporting the PI. Yet this was before such a distro even existed. The essentially first draft of this "official" distro has long since proven to be a failure, but the educators refuse to admit it. In fact, the educators either stone-walled, or else just plain lied, about the status of the project, each and every step of the way, since the bogus "launch" back in February. Nobody could ever get an honest answer from them, and anyone who tried was immediately labeled as a troll. I supported the project, in the first week of March, by paying in full for a PI board. Here in the Philippines, cash is the only accepted method of payment. No credit cards or PayPal. I went to a local bank, and deposited the funds into the Farnell account. This included the basic price, shipping, and VAT, pushing the price up close to $50. The latest delivery estimate for me is still months away! But, by now, as has happened to so many people, I have pretty much lost interest in the project. Add to that the increasing number of dead on arrival boards, and it's pretty much time to just write it all off as a lost cause -- as is frequently the case with any project sponsored by "educators." |
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| ernie Newbie  Joined: 18/03/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 14 |
The Rasbberry Pi is very successful, there are tens of thousands of them out there, and hundreds of thousands on order. There was a production delay whilst they sought various certifications for the boards. The forums are very lively, over 20,000 members. http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/ Lots of people seem to be programming with them, or at least posting in the programming forums, so I would say it's on the path the designers were hoping for. |
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