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Entries Open For First Ever 24-Hour Raspberry Pi Hackathon
concertina226 writes "Called the Raspberry Pi 'hack day', the competition will pit 100 entrants against one another in a number of categories using only the board, Internet access, soldering irons and as much coding as they think appropriate. Participants will have 24-hours to complete projects, at the end of which winners will be awarded from a variety of prizes including camcorders, Android tablets and the geek must-have, the Hubsan H107 Quadcopter."
How are you going to prevent someone from creating 1,000,000 lines of code and putting it on a web site to download during the competition?
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Is TechWorld for real or is it someone's blog?
"The best overall winner will also be given a tour of Sony’s Welsh in which the Raspberry Pi is manufactured"
Proof-reader sick today?
Actually, I'm not usually so grumpy but that full-page interstitial ad I had to dismiss before I got to the 7-paragraph ultra-lightweight "story" kind of ticked me off.
The Pi has GPIO pins. You can control almost any electronic device that you can build or modify or connect to during the competition. Personally, I would use a breadboard, but that's because I am absolutely crap at soldering.
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You want comments before breakfast? You can't handle comments before breakfast. Translation: this is a European event, we haven't had our first coffee yet.
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You might to solder up something like http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/04/12-things-to-make-raspberry-pi
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Have I missed something?
Why is this community so hostile to the Raspberry Pi?
I know we are a cynical bunch here but anything Pi-related is usually slated here.
It's like holding an auto race when there were only 2 automobiles existing in the world. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the pi, but as I enter the second month of waiting for it to show up I'm not all that certain it is not just vaporware . . .
"It's an imperfect world,screws fall out..."
Its not that no one cares, its that no one can get their hands on the freaking thing.
The delays have been so horrible someone has to be artificially holding them off at this point.
One of the sources has had my money for 7 months and nothing yet arrives, still backordered.
Foxconn could have built the fucking factory and delivered a half a billion units by now.
The Pi is basically a bunch of hype with little to no devices in anyones hands.
Use an alternative, they don't cost much more and you can actually touch them.
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Not true - only one supplier has been that incompetent, and that one will wake up and ship if you cancel the order. There are plenty of alternative suppliers that promise 1-week delivery, and actually achieve faster than that. There's a factory in Wales producing 16,000 units a week, and the Foundation reckons they will have shipped 1 million units this year (the original target was 100,000).. As for what people are doing with it, you are rather behind, shipmate. Read the Foundation blog http://www.raspberrypi.org/ to catch up on what's going on.
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Please show me who has them in stock and shipping.
I just looked at the web site, the suppliers don't have them in stock.
I would love to be wrong here.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Show us someone who has them in stock and shipping the same day, and for less money than it costs me to ship a fucking toaster oven. I can order pretty much anything I want (keyboards, motherboards, whatever) straight outta China with free shipping, but it costs fifteen bucks to ship something the size of a deck of cards from the UK to the US? That is pure bullshit, and fuck them in their greedy ears for charging so much. If they can't find people in the UK willing to work for a reasonable wage and able to drop things into envelopes and apply labels quickly enough to get them out at a profit without robbing people for handling fees, perhaps they should move their operations to some other country. Oh wait, I forgot, the R-Pi people are all proud of assembling in the UK. Well, maybe they should leave the whole business to someone who can do it efficiently.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
As I've said in other threads on this subject: cancel your order with RS, go with Farnells. I just received my second, rev 2.0 board. My first (rev 1) Pi is running the home PBX quite happily using IncrediblePBX. The second one was ordered on 2012-11-06 and arrived on 2012-11-20.
Adding my own to the experiences mentioned above — I live in Mexico. My Raspberry took just over a week to arrive home. Yes, I had originally ordered one when everybody rushed to them, and then cancelled as it seemed it would never arrive, but as soon as the eager hackers got their hands on the first run of boards, it got easier for the rest of us.
A quick search on the pi forums finds a US user with the following experience:
by skdrowe  /USA. (8/20/2012).
Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:39 am
Used Newark/ Element 14. Ordered 8/3/2012, Shipped 8/10/2012 Arrived today Calif
Merchandise Total : $35.00
Handling Fee : $0.00
Tax : $3.06
Shipping : $7.65
Total : $45.71
In short, you're spending too much time whining and not enough time shopping around. Feel free to buy one of the many competitive products out there. I suspect your entitlement mentality may hit a brick wall when you seek any support from the no-name manufacturers who ship free from China, but YMMV.
So much hate for a cheap computer aimed at opening the horizons of kids.
Bad workman blames his tools. It's a board aimed at developers, not entitiled whiners.
When I hear the term "developer board" I think of a board suitable for doing development work on, i.e. something reliable, not a board that is undergoing development, i.e. a prototype, which is what the Raspberry Pi actually feels like. It was certainly not meant to be this way though, the Raspberry Pi went through a prior beta phase which was meant to iron out the last remaining bugs before the final version of the board was created for mass production. Clearly they failed to achieve this goal.
Sounds like you either have shoddy supporting hardware, or you really don't know what you're doing.
These are the two most common excuses you hear from the Raspberry Pi apologists.
Actually, they've sold something like a million Raspberry Pi's now, vastly more than they'd originally aimed for.
I think GP's point is that "only the board, internet access, soldering iron and coding" is a finite list that does not include a breadboard or any other device.
Yes, it was pedantic. But pedantry is fun!
Bad workman blames his tools.
And an idiot trots out lame excuses like this. Some tools actually do have defects and are broken. Being able to spot that makes you a much better workman than the excuse maker.
A quick search on the pi forums finds a US user with the following experience:
The plural of anecdote is not data. A quick search on the pi forums will find US users with the opposite experience ordering from the same vendor. Great, neither of us have proven anything.
My hate is not for the computer. In fact, I have no real hate. But I dislike being lured in to the early adopter group — I didn't order one until after they announced they had Android 4 running, which they still haven't released for whatever reason. Originally they said there were problems with sound and networking, then I read that there were licensing issues with videocore, now they've released the opengl stubs neeed to fix that but there's still no release of something they said they had working ages ago. But I do admit that I should have known better.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I ordered one from Newark after javaone and I am currently running XBMC on it. I just looked at the site they are out of stock until nov 26, then they will have 1321 more
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I have to say. I don't understand what all the bitching is about.
I ordered mine from farnell (elements24 now?) a few days ago. I live in New Zealand. New-bumfuck-Zealand. Nothing ever arrives here quickly as we're literally in the middle of nowhere. And guess what? I got it next day. And they didn't even charge my credit card until a day AFTER I got it.
It actually came from New South Wales, Australia. Apparantly they have 100s and 100s in stock. Maybe there are shortages elsewhere, I don't know, but Aussies and Kiwis should have no trouble getting theirs.
So far i've had fun playing with mine. Its just headless (plugged only into ethernet and power) and i've been playing with it over ssh. I'm thinking about what home automation I can hook up to it. Also thinking of buying the PiFace, and addon board that buffers the gpios, provides relays and contacts and more.
Have fun and stop bitching about something that - honestly - is the price of a meal at a restaurant for 2. Or only 1 at a fancy restaurant. :)
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I got 5 from CPC (farnell) the morning after I ordered them this week.