Morning all,
I see someone has pre-ordered 10 and is offering on ebay for £95
each. I thought only one per person was allowed. Wish we could rid
ourselves of these "touts" trying to collar the market.
The person on ebay was shut down pretty quickly by the Raspberry Pi
Foundation. He had nothing to sell and was showing an image of a
pre-production alpha board. The rule about one per person stand.
The cost is £21.56 ish not including postage and the only places you can
get one is from RS or Farnell.
... They had also managed to get someone who was involved in
the original BBC Model B, to interview.
Yes, David Braben. He wrote (or co-wrote) Elite for the BBC and is a
founding member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Like others, I can wait a while ... then, too, there will have been some
things written to be able to use on the machine ... :-)
Not really. It comes with Fedora Linux on an SD card, or you supply one,
so you have all the tools for development at hand already. The Fedora
image takes about 2 Gb so the rest of the card can be used for data.
RSIC-OS is also available for it.
In education we are already familiar with dedicated devices for
controlling hardware ... like Lego MindStorms and Picaxe, to name but two.
Better than most schools then. ICT seems to involve learning to
spreadsheet and word process but little else. A friend of mine with
children bought my old laptop so that the kids could be taught useful
things about computers, not just what they get in ICT at school.
Still ... lots of potential fun to come in the future .....
Indeed.
Cheers,
Norm.
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