Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Raspberry Pi

The New Raspberry Pi has been released. I heard about it a few monthes ago and have been very excited about it.
The Raspberry Pi foundation is going with a licensed manufacturing setup with RS Components and Premier Farnell signing up to manufacture and distribute the boards. Right now it’s a strictly one-per-customer situation, but within a month or so you’ll be able to order as many as you would like.
Right now the foundation is focusing on the slightly more expensive ‘B’ model Raspberry Pi that includes Ethernet and USB over the $25 base unit. The ‘A’ model was originally slated to come with 128 MB of RAM, but due to some clever cost saving strategies, the team increased the base RAM to  256 MB.

Commentors pointed out that Newark was selling Raspberry Pi's for the US market, but they’re out of stock. The best advice may be to wait a few months for production to catch up to demand.

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