The Rasberry Pi

[del62]

I recently ordered a rasperry pi, has anyone else ordered one of these.

Looking forwad to getting it, a processor the size of a credit card for less than 30 squid.

Find out more here

 

[Chairman Meow]

I signed up for the updates on availability from Allied Electronics, and I'll put it this way: when I signed up it was probably around 32 Fahrenheit outside, and today it's 106 Fahrenheit outside... so I'm not holding my breath on getting one of those.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Well, then. I just got an email from Allied saying they have them in stock now.

edit - "*Please note that the estimated delivery time will be 10–12 weeks."

 

[innonimatu]

Meh...

There are better computers, and there are better toys for electronics. What's the point of putting the two together and failing to make the best of either?

 

[Mise]

What innonimatu said. I really don't see the point in the Raspberry Pi. It can't do half the things that my crappy old HTC Hero can do, and you can probably pick a 2nd hand Android up for a similar price anyway. Oh, so the hardware is open source too? Big freaking deal...

I just don't see the point.

 

[Antilogic]

What is this thing? Is it a tiny computer with tons of peripheral slots?