David Braben's Raspberry Pi PC launched

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Wed May 02, 2012 9:25 am

Interesting development.
Fingers crossed.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Wed May 02, 2012 9:46 am

Err, yikes. **Imagines DB knocking at his door with Raspeberry Pi in hand**

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Tue May 15, 2012 7:04 pm

Ordered my Pi today!

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed May 16, 2012 10:10 am

Wooooo!

You might get it before Christmas then!!

I've been getting emails on the status of orders from RS - they keep telling me that they are taking each order in turn when deliveries of Pies come in. They haven't yet told me what number I am in the queue though.

IIRC the next batch will be 7000 units.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Fri May 18, 2012 3:20 pm

Woo...my Pi has been ordered. The excitement is building...

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Fri May 18, 2012 3:23 pm

Seems June/July is the likely delivery date for this latest tray of pis.

maaarcooose · Post by **maaarcooose** » Fri May 18, 2012 7:13 pm

I registered my interest with 2 places on day of release so hopefully i'll get to order mine soon.

I fancy making mine into a mini laptop similar to a sharp zaurus. Either that or it will be my media center machine.
Be nice if they had 2 Ethernet ports as they would make a great firewall machine.

!m!

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:23 am

I'm hoping to use mine as a file and print server and python development platform. Already have a foldable keyboard, wireless adapter, USB hub and mouse for it and I've just bought a 16GB SD card for the OS - one of the few class 10 cards that work, apparently.

Looking forward to getting it now. It feels like Christmas. Slightly weird feeling to be able to buy a computer for £30.

I'm hoping that I can use it to teach The Boy how to program. I learned on a BBC Model B, so it would be nice for him to learn on a RPi Model B. Divine symmetry.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed May 23, 2012 9:14 am

Woo. Got my SD card today and am installing the OS for my Pi. Then a two week wait to actually use it.

It's too darn long.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:06 pm

The Raspberry Pi gets a good write-up from El Reg!

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Wed May 23, 2012 3:02 pm

Just got my order code, and have ordered my Raspberry Pi. 3 weeks to delivery they say.

Davespice · Post by **Davespice** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:07 pm

Looking forward to seeing Oolite on the Pi!
Chaps;

When you get your Pi's there are some C++ open gl/es demos you can look at to get an idea of how to use the framework.
On the Debian Squeeze or Raspbian images these are in;
/opt/vc/src/hello_pi

The hello_triangle one is probably the one you're going to want.
This just draws a simple rotating cube with textures at 1080p.

If you want a testing bod, I am happy to help. I am not sure how much help I can be with regards to the dev work... as I am quite new to Linux dev. But if I can help I will.
Dave

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:45 pm

Woooooooooooooooooooo

Now I just need to co-opt the tellybox.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:29 am

Woooooooooooo <cough>

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:21 pm

Make your own mini Orac!

http://www.adafruit.com/products/859

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