can use for automation purposes?

this is an amazing device. anyone here selling it yet?

only element14 and RS-online officially selling them, and minimum order 1 unit maximum order also 1 unit, so i dont think ppl will have many, unless u spam create account, cheating method. i think u need to wait at least 1 month after u order b4 it arrive. currently the demand for the pi is much greater than it can produce, so dont expect much of them flowing in the free market.

IMHO they should mass produce it, I think the cost can be even lower that way.

lol its not that easy, there are hundreds or thousands of parts on that small board, and each of them need to exactly the same, and its consider a charity project, the foundation isnt making money off any board produced, its the factory that makes money, but since the price is limited to a specified number, its not that easy to say mass produce. every factory on earth, unless they are going to bankrupt soon, they have order for the next few months, ppl rest, but machine wont rest, they run non-stop 24/7.

if you give them a schematic, and order like 100k unit, u need to give them a big sum of money for them to get parts and prepare a machine time slot for you, do not assume that they have all the parts, and ordering parts means parts from another factory, on the other side of the planet, and they need to work out your order too, which might leads to need part that from another factory from the other side of the planet. if you played game like that b4 you will know its not that simple, component within component within component, they arent a motherboard company which those company got a huge stock of almost all possible components like capacitor, slots, boards, etc, raspberry got nothing, they just started up and selling 3 months ago, they never did any project like that b4, they lack of experience, contact, relation, etc. It is very difficult to just say mass produce if your order isnt going to let factory make alot of profit.

But then good things like this should be encouraged.. Understood your point there.. Mass overhead cost involved and unrealistic profits to the factories are some of the issues for mass production.

Its times like these I wished I am an owner of a factory. Doesn't matter as long as it pays back the operating cost im fine already.

Hopefully i can get my hands on one and install my favorite linux distro on it

so u willing to ignore to do a project which is very rush but can make you a nice profit instead of doing a charity project which just enough to cover everything ? even u are the boss, its hard to make that decision, as workers knows they suppose to have bonus this year, but instead of doing what a boss suppose to do, u did charity, u happy, your workers arent.

unless someone able to get license from Raspberry PI and mass produce them~ then everyone will b happi

i think RPi is willing to give that, but the problem is profit per board is too low i guess.

I not sure about the costing... but Since it's for charity, Yes i doubt the profit will b high

Ive got the notification email fro element 14& edi ordered it. ^^
cant wait to get it




This post has been edited by yunaku: Jun 18 2012, 02:25 PM

Got mine delivered from Element 14 on Friday. Am a linux noob. Will load and hope to learn simple programming with the kids.

Jeeze, i will get mine only next week =.=

Wah, want to order lah. Hehe... Good for HTPC, linuxing or light weight game.

U need to know how to configure that, and it comes with no casing, I think that is a big issue for most common users.

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Added on June 18, 2012, 10:20 pmAnybody plans to make casing for this Pi? I mean seriously Metal or plastic casing for sell along with Pi.

This post has been edited by narf03: Jun 18 2012, 10:20 PM

Is it that hard to configure? For the casing, lego will be good for me. Can DIY, use my old laptop fan.

I too was invited by element14 to order recently...can't wait to start tinkering.

totally noob with linux too, been with windows and dos since 80's!

Same here, my 1st pc was a 286, with windows 3.11, ms dos 3.3 or 5, still remember the funny sound reading a 1.2MB diskette or the tone modem card used to connect to Internet. Those days won't come again.

I'm new to Linux too, forced to learn as company want me involve in a project, within few months I think either I failed big time or pro d =p

Linux is not that hard and it's fun. However, i'm a gamer and most of the time will boot to Windows. And one thing that disappointing me about Linux is, IDM incompatible. I live with Ubuntu since 2008. At 2011, totally not using Linux. However, for HTPC Linux already more than enough. But for RaspPi, I might migrate to LXDE for go for Gnome with less eye candies.

Read about RPi somewhere last week and since theres no news on the launch, almost forgot about it. Now its June 2012! Hope to get my hands on this beauty.

*searching for order links*