Raspberry Pi Now Selling

btarunr · Feb 29, 2012

The season's hottest hobby-kit for electronics and embedded computing enthusiasts, Raspberry Pi, started selling. The device is a fully-functional, self-contained, ARM-powered computer, complete with modern interfaces such as SDHC, USB, HDMI, and Ethernet (USB and Ethernet with $35 Model B), for as low as $25. The device can be powered up using Fedora Remix for Raspberry Pi, a Fedora ARM variant that's heavily optimized for the device. The Raspberry Pi is now available (limited to one quantity per customer), through Premier Farnell or RS Components.

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AphexDreamer · Feb 29, 2012

Very high traffic can't access any of the sites.
http://www.raspberrypi.com/merchandise/

http://farnell.com/

http://rswww.com/web/

deleted · Feb 29, 2012

They were all sold out before this article was even posted. It sounds like buyers in the US may have a chance in a day or two, since none of the retailers sell them through their US sites or ship to the US through their UK sites.

Edit: Looks like Farnell sold off their entire stock, and RS won't be available until later this week. No word on whether RS will sell them in the US, but the RPi doesn't even exist on the page of their US site. Also, from what I understand, RS only deals with individuals in the UK. Export is strictly corporate-only.

Completely Bonkers · Feb 29, 2012

Will you be buying as Raspberry Pi? What will your project be? How about a Rπ project thread?

option350z · Feb 29, 2012

They are not sold out just yet, RS components is not selling until the end of this week. Went on the twitter page.

https://twitter.com/#!/raspberry_pi

erocker · Feb 29, 2012

Completely Bonkers said:
Will you be buying as Raspberry Pi? What will your project be? How about a Rπ project thread?

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161117&highlight=raspberry

No US option on the Farnell site? What happened to buying it on raspberrypi.com? They were developed at a US university.. Why did they take the forum down? Disappointed. :ohwell:

Completely Bonkers · Feb 29, 2012

erocker said:
No US option on the Farnell site? W...rence.edwards/bbccomp/elite.gif"]David Braben", "20 pence piece", Fitzbillies Chelsea buns these are all signs of being a very Cambridge thing

Herewego... something on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17192823

erocker · Feb 29, 2012

Completely Bonkers said:
eh? US university you say? Which one?

ARM, "kit computers", "Model A" and "Model B", "do it yourself without instructions", these are all signs of being a very Cambridge thing

Actually I was thinking of the O/S to go with it... Even then I was wrong.. It's a college in Canada. :laugh:

radarblade · Feb 29, 2012

[sarcasm] But will it run Crysis? [/sarcasm]

On the other hand, if the Chinese get their hands on these, expect the price to go down to $15!

brandonwh64 · Feb 29, 2012

radarblade said:
[sarcasm] But will it run Crysis? [/sarcasm]

It might if Windows could run on it LOL

Athlon2K15 · Feb 29, 2012

Debian OS for Raspberry Pi

Grings · Feb 29, 2012

Completely Bonkers said:
Will you be buying as Raspberry Pi? What will your project be? How about a Rπ project thread?

I'm considering it, i have allsorts of DLNA devices in my house, linked to a nas containing my video's, each of them have problems with different video codecs, so i usually have to turn my pc on anyway.
A device like this is a lot more appealing to me as being based on an OS i can add codecs and update them when necessary.

I just wish there were more options like this, if these are £16-22, what could i get for £50-70?
Something with 7.1pcm via hdmi (ALL pc audio, not just blu-ray pass through) would be awesome.

Delta6326 · Feb 29, 2012

Awesome!

wahdangun · Mar 2, 2012

so what is hte spec for this raspberry Pi ?

and can install android ?

raspberry-crumble · Mar 5, 2012

Invited to place an order!

Raspberry-Crumble.co.uk has ordered their very own Raspberry PI, Model B from Farnell element14 - Order Date 5th March 2012 - Supplier Lead Time 58 days

We are very excited

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