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Raspberry Pi Gets 512MB Filling
sfcrazy writes "Good (and bad) news for Raspberry Pi lovers, the Model B has been upgraded to 512MB RAM from 256MB. Bad news is for those who already got their Model B shipments because all those who have outstanding orders with either distributors will get the *upgraded* version of the device, means with 512MB RAM instead of 256MB. The upgraded devices should be arriving to customers from today onwards. Raspberry Pi team will be pushing a firmware upgrade soon so these news devices can detect and use the additional RAM."
Adafruit.com has some nifty items. Also checkout hackaday.com for some interesting raspi stuff.
Ordered from raspberrypi.rsdelivers.com - one of the two that was recommended from http://www.raspberrypi.org/ page.
I looked at element14 but they didn't seem to have a casing for it, so I ended up at the other recommended place.
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
I would check out the RPi forums and potentially the wiki. There are a lot of folks who use the RPi for robotics.
Here is a link to the sub forum that includes robotics, but I bet there are robotics threads in lots of other places on their forums as well:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=37
And here is the RPi wiki:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Hub
Feel free to ask on the forums, I have found them to be very friendly.
Wax on, wax off baby!
The one distributor (RS, I think) is notorious for crazy long shipping times, while the other has almost always had stock. Cancel your order, go with the other guy.