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Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Unveiled
First time accepted submitter anwe79 writes "Those of you who have been wishing for a Raspberry Pi this Christmas will sadly not get your wish granted. However, you may be happy to hear that populated beta boards have now been produced. Beta of course means the boards still have some more testing to undergo. But, if all goes well, those inclined should be able to get their hands on production boards in January!"
Of course I am still under the "it doesn't exist until I can blow it up my self doing something dumb" crowd but it's making good progress
I think that surface-mount usb power connector will fail eventually since the images seem to show it not welded through-board.
Maybe they'll fix it on later models.(or it is already, but I'm not seeing the throughwelds from the pictures)
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
This is a full blown Linux box, unlike Arduino. I'm planning on hooking up a small USB-SP/DIF board. With a USB wifi adapter and web interface controlled by my phone, I'll have a cheap, pocket sized, remote controlled "bit bucket" for my concert recording hobby. I doubt you can do that with Arduino, or at least not without major hacking.
Bullcrap, why don't you go and watch the video of it being demo on their website. It's running an ARM version of ubuntu.
Arduinos are for retards. They're for all the people who seek validation being able to get LEDs to blink without knowing any annoying facts like operating voltages. The Raspberry Pi, however, is a BASIC stamp. That means that the real money-makers, the ones who know microcode, get back to work.
OK, WTF, time out. Can someone please explain this strange new trend of trolling with the intent of making yourself look stupid? I think it started on either 4chan or Fark, but it's been showing up here a lot lately. When I learned to troll, I was taught that the idea was to make the other guy look stupid.
Kids these days. Personally, I blame the excessive use of psychoactive prescription drugs in our schools.
$200? hardly.
$10 for a keyboard/mouse if you can't get hold of an old set.
$3 for a micr-USB charger, if you can't find a powered USB socket.
what else? a TV, an internet connection, a table, a chair, service from the power company, adequate nutrition. this stuff adds up!
Not true. The first 10k batch will be sold at the advertised price. $25 for the Model A and $35 for the Model B.
100 boards have been made for testing, 10 of those will be auctioned off if they work OK. Once all testing is done, the 10k batch will be ordered. That will be sometime in early January if all goes well.
The people behind the project have LOTS of experience in running big companies, so that's not an issue. And as for saying this is non-news. Hmm, I would have thought the first boards of what may be a game changing device coming off the production line would be news in most peoples book.
does it blend?