[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi launched!

Fri Mar 2 12:10:52 EST 2012

You can order the raspberry pi from newark/element 14 now.  Its
backordered about a month.  ROKU has the same processor in it as the
Raspberry PI

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> I'm VERY interested in discussing and testing ALL of the Similar devices and
> am ready to order some up for us to play with at the next GRLUG Social.
>
> Richard and I were online for the raspberryPi launch but ran into the same
> issues as the rest of the group and eventually fell asleep.
>
> I got a ROKU last week and someone said that the inside was a raspberryPi
> can anyone confirm?
>
> Currently I'm trying to purchase both raspberryPi and some Beagle boards,
> please send your suggestions for similar boards so I can get them ordered
> also.
>
> Regards,
>
> Casey
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Clay Ashby <kingpoiuy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think for me it's simply the price. Most devices like this tend to be
>> closer to $100 or more. Yes, I have an old smart phone which I can put
>> Debian on, but that is only one device. I probably can't find an old used
>> smartphone for $35 especially one with Ethernet and HDMI.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, I don't disagree at all.  I think it's quite a cool project and will
>>> probably end up buying one (or something like it) myself someday.
>>>
>>> What I object to is the artificial barrier the thought of it seems to be
>>> building in peoples' minds against them achieving their goals right away.
>>>
>>> And keep in mind this is coming from a guy who really misses the days
>>> when you could walk into a local electronics store and buy a 4017, so I may
>>> be a little biased toward building things myself.  :)
>>>
>>> - Kyle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/29/2012 11:26 PM, John Wesorick wrote:
>>>
>>> A supported common platform is one reason. Availability (once they start
>>> mass producing them) and price are others. For my project at least (same
>>> thing with RaspBMC) , it would be super easy to host the already built/setup
>>> OS, download it and dd to an SD card.
>>>
>>> Also, all hacking that's done on them benefits education (the Raspberry
>>> Pi's main goal) in two ways. One, so the capabilities of the device can be
>>> explored/tutorialized (yes, that's a word I just made up) and second that
>>> once they are produced for schools, there will already be tons of cool
>>> projects for kids to get excited for.
>>>
>>> My two cents.
>>>
>>> On Feb 29, 2012 11:11 PM, "Kyle" <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What I wonder is why there's so much hype for this when there are other
>>>> cheap low-power ARM devices being thrown out all the time.  There are plenty
>>>> of cell phones and other devices that'll run Debian just fine - old cell
>>>> phones, old e-book readers, etc. - that suit the purposes of a number of the
>>>> members' use cases.  Even broken devices.  Who needs a working EDGE modem -
>>>> just about anything with WiFi fits the bill on a bunch of the use cases, and
>>>> any device that has software control of USB host mode (most ARM devices I've
>>>> encountered) solve the external storage cases.  HDMI requires a phone or
>>>> other device with an HDMI port (without an external graphics card on USB
>>>> host mode or something similar).  Some of the devices (particularly
>>>> e-readers) do not have media decoding chips, but I don't see a need for
>>>> that, nor even seeing it being used due to unlikeliness of compiler
>>>> compatibility in a case like an Asterisk server.  That may be inaccurate,
>>>> but it still satisfies a lot of use cases.  I mean, I regularly carry around
>>>> two ARM devices that run Debian (and were not designed to) and one that runs
>>>> Ubuntu (again, not designed for it).  It's not particularly difficult.
>>>> There are tools available to build chroot images that often times you can
>>>> run under Android with minimal effort, giving you a familiar userland which
>>>> you can apt-get install packages to.
>>>>
>>>> Don't get me wrong - the Raspberry Pi is a cool device - but I guess my
>>>> point is that even without getting one, the possibilities and wants I've
>>>> seen expressed are already achievable!  Go build cool things!
>>>>
>>>> - Kyle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/29/2012 08:57 AM, Clay Ashby wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking forward to playing with this. For the purpose of
>>>> conversation; what's everyone planning to do with theirs? Maybe this has
>>>> already been discussed and I missed it...
>>>>
>>>> My first thought was getting it to access internet through my Android
>>>> phone. It might be fun to try and cluster a few of them - pointless, but
>>>> fun.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Brandon White <rbwhite18 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Same situation here... lame...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:18 AM, megadave wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Actually R-Pi's site was fine.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > It was their 'partner sites' (the ones that were supposed to be
>>>>> > actually taking orders) that fell over hard.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > FWIW, I was actually on at the time (by plan) trying to get in and
>>>>> > order.. I tried for half an hour before giving up and going to bed.
>>>>> > It
>>>>> > appears that all either of their partner sites are now offering is
>>>>> > "register an interest".
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:42, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >> Official launch was a few hours ago (6am GMT), and the demand was
>>>>> >> high
>>>>> >> enough to cripple their site. Shall we start a betting pool on how
>>>>> >> long it
>>>>> >> will take before somebody at GRLUG has one in hand on this side of
>>>>> >> the
>>>>> >> ocean?
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