Various bits of Raspberry Pi news from the mainstream tech news. I haven't been following the Raspberry Pi blog, so I expect all of this will be old news to anyone who is.
Raspberry Pi ramps up production, lifts purchase limit http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/17/3163736/raspberry-pi-ramps-up-production-lifts-purchase-limit?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ...orders were limited to one per customer due to demand. As of today, that's all over -- users can order as many of the tiny machines as they'd like. The change is driven to an increase in production capacity: according to a recent blog post, 4,000 units of the "model B" Pi are being manufactured every single day. That's not to say the device will be shipping immediately -- new orders are currently projected to arrive in September... Hardware Hacks: The Raspberry Pi is everywhere http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Hardware-Hacks-The-Raspberry-Pi-is-everywhere-1643162.html Hardware Hacks is a new section on The H that collects stories about interesting uses of open hardware... FishPi - ...an unmanned, autonomous boat controlled by a Raspberry Pi. The solar powered FishPi is being designed with the goal of being able to cross the Atlantic Ocean all by itself. Raspberry Pi in space - Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton...envisions the mini-computer being used in sounding rockets, experimental balloons and even satellites. Pi Cobbler - ...Adafruit...has released the Pi Cobbler...lets hackers run the Raspberry Pi's 26 I/O ports to a solderless breadboard that makes it easier to prototype hardware projects involving the mini-computer. Looks like an ongoing series of blog posts about using Perl on the Pi: Perl DBD::ODBC on the Raspberry Pi http://www.martin-evans.me.uk/node/144 I got my Raspberry Pi a week ago and wrote up my first impressions about the RP and whether it would work to get our children programming at Raspberry Pi - will it get our children programming? and if so why not in Perl? -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
