The Raspberry Pi $35 open-source computer has gone on sale,
and early demand for the incredibly capable mini-PC has already
seen retail partner sites melt down under the stress.

Announced back in 2011, as part of the $25 computer project,
the $35 version is the more advanced “Model B” unit
which has seemingly grabbed the attention of developers and tinkerers.
Meanwhile, the $25 “Model A” version is going into production now.



Although the Raspberry Pi was intended as an educational tool, with
the foundation behind the computer hoping to motivate schools
into teaching programming skills as part of the curriculum,
its surprisingly potent processing power quickly grabbed the focus.
Early demos showed it capably running Quake III, with
subsequent demos showing unofficial AirPlay support.

In fact, the Model B is tipped to have twice the GPU power of the iPhone 4S
and be capable of roasting NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 in raw grunt.



You can find details on how to buy over at the Raspberry Pi site,
though at time of writing one retailer, Farnell, is sold out, and
the other is asking for would-be buyers to “express interest”
with next deliveries expected at the end of next week.
The stock took just two hours to be depleted.





This post has been edited by general_odin: Feb 29 2012, 09:46 PM

what you guys think about this ?? pretty cool eh ?

It's awesome, now to find one.

It is great gadget to explore ideas with your programming and hardware hacking skills...

This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Mar 1 2012, 01:52 AM

haha indeed... i think we can load an android in it and play around ? haha

can use for htpc as well with xbmc

i can imagine if this thing lod into our LED TV than our TV will call SmartTV already lol

This really a potential item, the size really good for mobility and flexible to come with a lot new idea

Someone wanna bulk order?

I also have the thinking of first thing to do with it is to make my house old tv into a smart TV LOL

haha, yeah i think we should gather people to do bulk order... but its only available in uk at the moment and its sold out within the first 2 hours after being made available to the market

integrate into our homes and fire up ios5... "Jarvis, let there be light" hahaha

ordered from element14

where to buy?

Wow, great. I'm can't even get into the preorder stage...
Finally we have a cheaper alternative to the beagleboard to play with.

element14 doesnt offer package one that comes with all the cable etc

I thought they will never sell more than 1 per customer so no bulk orders?

Official website already mention can open for ppl to buy more than one

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Added on March 2, 2012, 11:41 pm"Today’s sales are limited to one per customer, so that as many of you as possible are able to get their hands on one. Starting in a month or so, you will be able to place batch orders with both Premier Farnell and RS Components for as many units as you want; you’ll also save some money on postage by doing this."

This post has been edited by kailoonthedog: Mar 2 2012, 11:41 PM

By the way if we get this, how to install OS onto it?

lol what u mean = = , it's just like ordinary computer just it's small and not so much space and memory and computing power compare to a full fledge pc

But it's not x86 ma right?

It's arm architecture , there's no need for you to care about the underlying architecture unless you're a geek , it works the same as ordinary pc , just boot and install

any ideas what can we do with it?
i m pretty interested, can boot linux in it?
maybe can make a freeNAS or openWRT with it?

This post has been edited by 881118: Mar 3 2012, 11:58 PM

It's open source , you can pretty much do whatever you want with it , of course every hardware has limitation LOL

http://malaysia.rs-online.com/web/generalD...?id=raspberrypi

you also can go here to get the rpi. but seem like take a lot of time, because we need them to contact us first if there are stock.
but this is the Malaysian branch of RS Components, so maybe easier if we got some problem with the hardware.

the price is MYR125.00 as for now (4/3/2012) at RS Components website, is it right conversion from USD/£?

waiting for stock to arrive. going to make it into youtube karaoke machine

nice... shall mount it inside my pc... dual pc in 1 case ! woots

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Added on March 4, 2012, 9:40 pmnice... shall mount it inside my pc... dual pc in 1 case ! woots

This post has been edited by general_odin: Mar 4 2012, 09:40 PM

If you are doing a bulk order, pls count me in..

I'm still running my Soekris ( http://soekris.com/products/net5501.html ) on Debian as my home linux for many years doing OpenVPN & stats ( munin pulling stats via SNMP ) on Unifi router bandwidth monitoring on a 4Gb CF card..

Screnshot of my UNIFI stats on soekris/munin



If this support Debian, I can easily port it over my soekris to this computer..

Now just need to find a nice casing for this little powerful computer...

Have not read the docs, I think installing the linux OS would be just writing a raw linux partition to the SDcard via SDcard reader mounted on a linux...

This post has been edited by stan001: Mar 5 2012, 01:33 AM

Also RM125 from http://my.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspb...tt=raspberry+pi

I see there's model B Plus

It can run Debian and I saw a youbube video guide to install Debian onto it.

if making bulk orders do count me in.
do you think this can be made into an intrusion protection system? will sit inline between the internet and my router. maybe can even have another one made into a dedicated firewall

i also want it...pretty cool meh

For linux IPS & f/w, using soekris would be more appropriate cos it got 2 or 4 gigabit ethernet network ports..

Raspberry only got 1 network port ...

i checked the soekris ... wah mahal la. $35 vs $150

Offtopic,
I found beagle bone is more cool, more expensive though, is for those are are familiar with arduino, but want more power

http://beagleboard.org/bone

One more thing, not all distro are supported, you need to wait for them to compile for ARM, that you probably already know

This post has been edited by sweemeng: Mar 5 2012, 10:38 PM

I don't think you can install windows on an ARM machine...

I never say it can install windows on it , but recompilation of windows onto ARM environment make it possible , but still there's space constraint(sd card small size) , and recently windows is making ARM cpu Windows because most of the tablet nowadays using ARM cpu

IIRC there are articles saying it currently is compatible with Debian and Arch Linux. I don't know about Arch but there should be a little detail on instructions for Debian, like someone said earlier in this thread there's even a youtube vid showing it. Sad Ubuntu ARM can't go into it, I'd prefer it for a quick setup.

I cant wait to get one of this...

Well linux distro all develop under C language so it's portable , we just need to compile it under ARM architecture to make it works , the thing is size constraint because raspberry using only SD card but mostly linux distro OS uses small space

according to the official faq, yes it is possible to run Android on it but need some modification in order for Android to run on low memory system.

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Added on March 6, 2012, 6:19 amit has a lot extra ports and on-board NAND storage... but it has slower processor and lesser ram....

Furthermore, we can purchase 4 units of Raspberry Pis with that price.. 4 is always > 1 right

This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Mar 6 2012, 06:19 AM

Uh, but most Linux distro comes precompiled as a ready-to-install OS, with each having a different architecture it can suit itself in. Most of them go for the i386 and amd64 platforms...

If you want to try installing a distro under ARM by compilation, try Gentoo.

compiling linux, from scratch, for another processor, not so simple, even though they already have support for it.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Now for arm, first you need to setup a cross compilation toolchain on top of what they have on linux from scratch.

Short answer, don't bother, the developers is working on it, let them do it, it will come soon

This post has been edited by sweemeng: Mar 6 2012, 10:36 AM

Guys, someone created the case

http://marcoalici.wordpress.com/2012/02/29...-raspberrypi-2/

WHAT !!!

I really like it

But, where is the HDD, RAM and sound card and others thing ?
This is the main board ?

And where to buy !!! I want !!!

Friend, this is a System-on-chip (SoC) design, much like how your iPhones/Androids etc is built. This is no common PC like you see with a casing complete with all the bulk you would normally think.

Go back to the first post of this thread... AND READ!

Although SoC performance lose to ordinary bulk pc , but it's portable

Want to ask a fundamental question this board can be powered by a microUSB right? Im thinking of purchasing one, then making it to be a lightweight media player for LCD TV (my TV got usb port and hdmi port at the side)., so that I can connect it to LAN, and play those media files tat my internal TV Media player cannot play...

This is definitely a good alternative to WDTV Live-S cuz no external power brick required

Or even better, can be a media transcoder where it can just feed from the switch / NAS's power via USB Port, and stream to other devices like the PS3, phones etc.

This post has been edited by SnoWFisH: Mar 8 2012, 04:32 PM

Yes, it can draw powers from the microUSB port as long as the source can output >= 700mA for model B and >= 300 mA for model A.


I am wondering how much bandwidth required to stream 720p / 1080p video (with acceptable bit rate)?
As I read on the official faq, the Ethernet port is sharing the same USB hub with the usb ports, in such case the available bandwidth is highly limited.

This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Mar 8 2012, 06:56 PM

My colleague jst ordered, E14 has stock in local warehouse in Malaysia! Due to arrive next monday . . At first he doesn't believe the date in the invoice as well and contacted the local sales rep for E14.
RM145 including shipping for B Model.

I don't think bulk order will make the price any cheaper for now, since E14 and RS implemented a MOQ (Max order quantity =.=), of 1 unit per person.

I'll try to get some unboxing pictures

This post has been edited by SnoWFisH: Mar 9 2012, 03:29 PM

That's weird! See the news, how can the stock arrive in Malaysia warehouse as there are some problem on the manufacturing part?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781

We'll see on Monday!

So the one you get will be the one that has problem one?

I have no idea...i din't order yet...my colleague balik already....I keep you guys posted on Monday

haha that is a very cute small board there but sadly cannot use it 2 play games

I think it is pre-order only...

anyway... i also ordered

This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Mar 10 2012, 01:01 AM

You cannot play windows game, but open source game will be ported, quake 3 can be played,

Still can play cut the rope & angry birds

So what OS can we expect to runs on this system? Windows 8 ARM edition? it'll be a WOW.

Please go to the official website to check , and read a few post back before asking

oh great, IT SUPPOSE TO BE USE FOR KIDS TO LEARN COMPUTER!!!!

I blame html5 for distraction for kids!!!!

hmm, Windows 8 on RPi, i doubt about it. even if we can get Windows 8 boot past locked bootloaders, dont know if the minimum requirement to function properly can be met(assuming not very different with x86 system requirement). I've used on using win XP & win 7 under the min requirement. of course you can use them, but the result isnt very good.

but if somebody can tweak the Windows 8 to run on RPi, i would like to see it. and i dont really know how RPi boot coz still dont have the thing


http://www.xda-developers.com/feature/micr...ning-windows-8/
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012...-we-know-it.ars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Hardware_requirements

hahaha then i guess it will take decades 2 make PI run able with crysis 1 at ULTRA in 1080p lorh

Windows 8 may be overkill for the poor thing provided microsoft scales down the requirements for ARM devices , but bear in mind ARM devices are getting powerful. You have quad core ARM processors now

Take note that CPU is not the only one that determine the overall performance , the other stuff like BUS speed , RAM , HDD will affect too

Update, as we all expected, E14 emailed my colleague that his shipment will be delayed as there is no stock in the warehouse (First batch of manufacturing just popped out from the factory of course no stock lah! ).
He was told that the earliest he will get is end of july.

He then went and cancelled his order.

I guess i will save $$ for a headphone and tablet first before this Raspberry pi and its respective peripheral(monitor etc)

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Added on March 12, 2012, 6:01 pmBTW do take note that windows run on a CISC design cpu (amd , intel etc) , but ARM cpu is using RISC design , so beside adapting to the ISA of the arm CPU , an OS still need to adapt itself to the design.

This post has been edited by kailoonthedog: Mar 12 2012, 06:01 PM

SnowFish - July?! that is 4 months from now!

Yeap, chances are you might need a VM to run it. However, i think u can run windows 8 embedded on it.

Yeap . Oh well, I guess I'll wait too. First batch got no case, but subsequent batches should have.

dang.. have to wait till July for it.

but from the official site, it had mentioned that second batch can be dispatched by April and will be the 1 unit per person limitation will be relaxed.

further more i had ordered as well, however i didn't receive any shipment delay notice for E14.

This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Mar 13 2012, 04:08 PM

I will wait you guys to try it out first before buying LOL , and in case they come out a better model

aish it is just < RM150. worth than the price even there is a better model.

BEcause i accidentally saw a product mention raspberry pi B plus mode , i click into the link it shows but still no info about it , only the name and the website format , but later on they remove it liao , so i sense something

i'll wait for the batch which comes with case...no need to worry about random static

Anyone got it please post the picture along with the packaging, maybe can re-use the packaging cardboard or whatever that's as the casing... hehe xD" (cheap slake style)

wow!! is this product has come to melesia?

Please read previous post

ordered yesterday morning with some toolkit set to get the free delivery. this morning the gdex came passed me a box, all excited opened it to find only the stupid toolkit set and will dispached the item when available and printed lead time July or later... darn it!!!!

to many page.. lazy to read them thoroughly..

Don't say I din't warn you that the it will come in July!

Anyhow im planning to order with a toolkit too. Too bad its limited to 1 unit per person otherwise cuz i got quite a number of friends interested in ordering it

just only saw this thread after they posted me an email about ordering it, already registered interest from day 1 with both sites for sale. yesterday only get email so no think just order. in fact forgot all about this happening gadget. hehe...

We lazy to answer you also

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Added on March 16, 2012, 12:21 amwhat toolkit ?? cable and etc??What is contains?

This post has been edited by kailoonthedog: Mar 16 2012, 12:21 AM

Wow, I have no idea something like this could be this successful. I heard news the site taking orders crashed due to too many folks on the website?

I do see tremendous potential, just adding display, input device and it is internet-ready with ethernet (Model B). What a wonder something this small could run an entire operating system. Hey, I saw a vid of it running Quake3 and HD video.

Educational tool? Genius... every student can have one and this is the ultimate purpose.

Another item on my wishlist, Rasberry pi having a wireless ethernet inside

wireless ethernet??It comes with an ethernet to wireless adapter?

it comes with wired ethernet only...

Wireless is my wishlist lah

wireless ethernet is you buy an adapter connected to the ethernet controller and make it wireless . I think what you want is an wifi card on raspi

I am interested in getting couple of Pi for fun and various uses. Just waiting for the case to be sold together with the board. And I think I gotta get the power brick, power cable, SD cards and possibly a kvm since I already have 2 keyboards on my desk.

+1000
LOL nice one you're the man!!
hit it hard, right on the face!

Anyone here manage to get their hands on the RPi yet ?

Raspberry Pi OS - RacyPy2 http://teampython.wordpress.com/2012/03/03...ot-use-racypy2/

Programming the Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton http://www.element14.com/community/events/3282

No update???

One thing I dont understand is Intel/AMD have x86 license, they could have build a low power USB x86 PC to run win9x using a slow SoC. If ARM can run Quake 3, I think x86 that is less efficient are still well enough to at least run window9x. I am pretty sure a lot of x86 softwares have req much lesser than Quake 3

Someone from these 2 companies need to copy this with some brain, u could sell this thing very well.

just imaging a USD size PC with a build-in wifi connection + a usb connector for storage + necessity connectors like audio jack/hdmi port. That allows u to plug into a TV and turn into a PC itself. Or may be plug multiple on my desktop to become 1 big + many mini PC running diff OS like old Linux.

They won't earn much from doing so