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RasberryPi release date February 20th
- detst 15y ago"RasberryPi release date February 20th". No. FTA: "[T]he boards will be finished on February 20. [...] [Y]ou should be able to buy them before the end of the month."
- catch23 15y agoThere's only 10,000 units in this batch. I'm guessing it will be sold out in an hour or two.
- dekz 15y agoI'm under the impression that you can only purchase 1 per person (or per transaction?). So group and bulk buys are out of the question. 10,000 units might last a bit longer than 1-2 hours, but only time will tell.
- adestefan 15y agoJust wait a couple of months and you'll probably be able to pick one up on the cheap from people looking to offload something sitting around. These are a lot less powerful and have a lot fewer connectivity options, unless you want to do some soldering, then people are believing. It also doesn't help that the main selling point (accelerated graphics) will be shipping as a binary blob.
- sliverstorm 15y agoThese ... have a lot fewer connectivity options, unless you want to do some soldering, then people are believing There are always a plethora of USB NIC's. Me, I just want a cheap low power mailserver. Perhaps if XBMC works well enough, there's that too.
- adestefan 15y agoI didn't mean things like NICs. Instead I was talking about sensors and such.
- alan_cx 15y agoThis might be what you need: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411
- Danieru 15y agoThe Raspberry Pi is not targeting the Arduino's use case. Instead the Raspberry Pi is supposed to be an incredibly cheap computer and for that the only sensor you need is a usb keyboard.
- lwat 15y ago> These are a lot less powerful... Er... so what do YOU recommend we buy for around $35 instead?
- ChuckMcM 15y agoWow, looking at the data sheet BroadCom provided has confirmed my worst fears. Comments like: There are a number of peripherals which are intended to be controlled by the GPU. These are omitted from this datasheet. Accessing these peripherals from the ARM is not recommended. There is of course no documentation at all for the GPU, if you run Linux on this thing you are at Broadcom's mercy for maybe giving you a binary blob which might run the GPU in an acceptable manner but no promises. This is such a sad state of affairs. Where a chip company refuses to divulge information that is critical to using their chip. Say what you want about the OLPC but like Stallman's laptop the damn thing had pretty good documentation on all the parts. I guess its finally time for an open source SOC.
- newhouseb 15y agoCould someone privately buy more information about the GPU? i.e. does it exist? Is it held private because some vendor OS has paid them for exclusivity rights? I really don't understand the business strategy behind such secrecy.
- wmf 15y agoBroadcom would probably give you GPU documentation under NDA as long as you don't release any code you write and you don't tell anyone how bad their GPU is.
- genbattle 15y agoThere are a number of peripherals which are intended to be controlled by the GPU. These are omitted from this datasheet. Accessing these peripherals from the ARM is not recommended. I can understand them not wanting you to access the GPU peripherals from the ARM processor, the GPU can handle out-of-order data access, but the ARM core cannot (although it sounds like you can get around it with some careful programming). At this stage i'm happy we got anything out of them at all, limited as it may be. A datasheet for the GPU would be great though. But given the progress of Open Source drivers from the groups working with AMD and Nvidia (who are much more forthcoming than the embedded graphics vendors), I can't say I would prefer to wait 3 years for a functioning driver that can handle OpenGL ES 2.0 and accelerated video playback. You'll still need a binary blob in the meantime. And it's not feasible for them to just give away their driver source for free in the meantime, for the same reasons it was never feasible for nvidia or AMD to just open up their proprietary drivers. I think in time the situation will improve, but you can't expect Raspberry Pi to reverse standard industry practices in a single leap and bound. Give it time, and see this release for what it is: progress.
- duaneb 15y agoCan't wait; I want a slow ARM test machine for my code. This will be perfect.
- joezydeco 15y agoWhy dont't you just find a cheap Cortex M3 eval board, then? http://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-STM32F103RBT6-Cortex-M3-Development-Adapter/dp/B005FXDXGU http://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-STM32F103RBT6-Cortex-M3-Deve... (example, not an endorsement) Or hack a Gameboy Advance. ARM hobby boards have existed long before Raspberry Pi. Or is it the linux distro and easy video that's so appealing?
- fr0sty 15y agoI think the $25 price point is a major draw. Your example board with fewer features is $60...
- joezydeco 15y ago...and no Broadcom subsidy. [EDIT] Am I wrong?
- wmf 15y agoI don't know whether the board is subsidized or not, but I suspect most people don't care why it's as cheap as it is.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoI don't get it? Are you saying that Broadcom are paying rpi to have the chips?
- joezydeco 15y agoThat's one way to think about it. Here's another: if you were actually able to get this chip from Broadcom (you're not), and asked for a 10K lot (you can't), do you think the price would let you achieve a $25 BOM?
- donnaware 15y agoHype & vapor-ware, we've seen all too many times.