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Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM
- umrashrf 14y agoThat's some news!
- i386 14y ago> If you have an outstanding order with either distributor, you will receive the upgraded device in place of the 256MB version you ordered. Awesome news since I've been waiting a very long time for mine to ship!
- zdw 14y agoExactly. 3 months here.
- HNaTTY 14y agoI registered with RS 4.5 months ago (ordered ~4 months ago) and just received the 512MB upgrade and shipping email today.
- carson 14y agoMaybe it depends on where you order from but I ordered one from element 14 a couple weeks ago and had it in 4 days.
- jc4p 14y agoI just ordered one from them a few minutes ago and they said they have lots in stock to ship today, I wonder what's going on.
- bostonvaulter2 14y agoAnd they've now suspended orders due to the high demand.
- coob 14y agoAwesome, mine is supposed to be delivered today! We're planning on using it to control an entire room… AC via the GPIO, lighting via a USB power relay and TV/Soundbar via HDMI-CEC. Tying all of this into an API to be controlled by iOS apps. Excited!
- saym 14y agoThis sounds like an interesting project. I kindly direct your attention to http://code.google.com/p/openhab/ http://code.google.com/p/openhab/ Best of luck to you!
- dirkk0 14y agoThanks for the link. Are you aware of similar projects?
- saym 14y agoI'm only an interested observer. This could also be of interest to you: http://simplehomenet.com/solutions.asp?page_id=HomAidPi http://simplehomenet.com/solutions.asp?page_id=HomAidPi It uses a Pi too! Also could be of use: http://www.zigbee.org/ http://www.zigbee.org/
- dirkk0 14y agoNice - thank you!
- narcissus 14y agoThere was an old Perl based project called Mr. House ( http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ ), though it hasn't seen activity in a few years. It tried to be vendor-neutral and (apparently) had voice controls, too, which sounded cool. I never had the money to set up the hardware, though, so I have no idea about it's actual abilities...
- dmritard96 14y agohttps://github.com/dandroid88/webmote https://github.com/dandroid88/webmote I have been working on this for fun in my spare time. Probably not the best fit for what you are doing as my primary focus (so far) has been controlling IR-controlled devices via a web interface. It is still a bit of a hack but it works well for controlling my TV, stereo, xbmc, x10 lights from anything with a browser. I have been hosting it on a raspi and it is pretty fun to play with (turning off my fiance's 'say yes to the dress' from the bathroom). Good luck with your project.
- CrazedGeek 14y agoI love/hate that, in the three months since I placed my order for an RPi, it keeps getting upgraded before I can even get my hands on the dang thing. Ah well...
- upinsmoke 14y agoI cancelled my order a couple of weeks ago, because they keep delaying it. Waited 3 months.
- RutZap 14y agoThis is weird.. I placed an order with element 14 and I received the RPi in less than 3 weeks. To be honest I am a little bummed as I got mine less than a month ago .. and I have the 256MB one... Could have done with 512
- RossM 14y agoFarnell (element14) have generally been very good with fulfilment of orders, RS not so much. Got my e14 in 5 weeks (ordered at release), RS one never came after months so cancelled it.
- captaintacos 14y agoWell I guess I might as well just order a new 512 with element14 (I wish I knew about those guys). Mine didn't ship at all with RS Components (+4 months waiting) then I complain on twitter to @RSComponents, 3 hours later I get an email from RS saying that my order just shipped... This is last SATURDAY! - so no 512 version :( A couple hours later I get a reply from RS to my tweet saying: "Our records show that yours shipped LAST FRIDAY". And now I still have to wait 21 more days until it arrives. Maybe if I order right now from element14, it may arrive earlier?!
- nitrogen 14y agoIn the US, my order from Newark took about two weeks to arrive. My order from Allied took about 3 months to ship, currently waiting for arrival (apparently I just missed the 512MB cutoff by a day).
- djhworld 14y agoThat's annoying for us early adopters but oh well. Good news for people still waiting to receive theirs
- yardie 14y agoThus, the price of progress. But I'm glad they are in a position to negotiate better pricing on RAM. I assume the volume and high demand allows them to approach any RAM manufacturer from a better position versus when they started as an unknown entity.
- eru 14y agoAlso RAM just gets cheaper over time.
- gillianseed 14y agothat's pretty much always the price of being an early adopter, on the other hand you've had all this time to play around with it which certainly counts as value.
- jentulman 14y agoI thought that for a moment, but I'm consoling myself with the fact my purchase has helped this happen (in a tiny tiny way). Every cloud has a silicon lining, I have a new toy and unintentionally I did a little bit of good.
- FSEA 14y agoEarly adopters are the gunpowder that projects such uh, projects, up to higher places. You did a lot of good.
- Tichy 14y agoJust the normal state of affairs for computing hardware. Next year's computers will pack more power for the same price. Only difference is that they didn't give the updated Pi's a new model number. An interesting lesson in consumer psychology perhaps?
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- tominated 14y agoOf course this happens on the day I finally receive mine...
- program 14y agoRS specs page has been updated: http://raspberrypi.rsdelivers.com/product/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-type-b/raspberry-pi-type-b-single-board-computer/7568308.aspx http://raspberrypi.rsdelivers.com/product/raspberry-pi/raspb... I'm very happy that my order has been delayed.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoJust FYI: People have probably downvoted you because your link requires authentication (and redirects non-authenticated users to http://authenticate.rsdelivers.com http://authenticate.rsdelivers.com).
- orik 14y agodownvote?
- rplacd 14y agoAnd I'm a bit miffed that my order's just arrived a few days ago, 7 months RS late. So obviously there's a teaching moment there I would do well to learn from. Ooh, fate, you nasty. I wonder how many orphaned 256MB Model Bs are there floating around with RS and Farnell.
- phlyingpenguin 14y agoTBH, I wish I would have noticed how absurd the RS situation was earlier. I just put an element14 order in to see which ships sooner. Based on my order number, RS says they'll ship it mid November. Somehow, I feel like I'll be able to cancel the RS order with a pi in my hands.
- MartinMond 14y agoReally awesome that they could do that! But I have no idea what I'd use the additional 256 MB for, in my experience the bottleneck so far has always been the CPU.
- qznc 14y agoIn many cases you can trade speed for memory or vice versa. For example, a good garbage collector provides better performance than most manual allocators, but needs two or three times as much memory. Likewise, use dynamic programming and cache values extensively.
- NickPollard 14y agoHow do good garbage collectors provide better performance than manual allocators? I'll admit to being fairly under-educated when it comes to garbage collectors, but I don't see how they would improve the performance of manual allocators. Are they faster at the actual allocation, or are they better at layout and cache coherency of the data allocated? I would have thought it would be incredibly difficult to match the efficiency of good manual allocation strategies. Disclaimer: I work in games, where controlling and managing memory allocations (particularly heap allocations) is critical to maintain low frame times, which is why I'm interested in this.
- precisioncoder 14y agoMakes me really glad I delayed ordering mine. I kept putting it off due to site crashes in the beginning, then the wait times. Mine will probably just be a toy so I'm happy letting other people enjoy theirs first. Plus that means they will generate some cool online projects and support I can look at when I start playing with mine.
- Roritharr 14y agoThey should work on the availability. A friends Startup isn't progressing as fast as he'd like to because he can't buy enough Raspberrys...
- dsl 14y agoYour friend is, quite simply, an idiot. The supply chain issues for Pis have been well known for a long time.
- bigfudge 14y agoThat's both rude and unhelpful, and does nothing to address the original point (that they should focus on availability), which I would tend to agree with.
- dsl 14y agoSorry, I shouldn't be awake at this hour (See AWS thread). However the number of upvotes I immediately got seems to indicate my subtly suggested solution was quite clear to others.
- anthonyb 14y agoI'd say more blunt and to the point. Also, it doesn't help now, but in future it certainly will. Don't make plans around pre-release or limited hardware.
- tonyblundell 14y agoSo there are people using them to do something other than watch rip-off movies on their TV :-)
- Zenst 14y agoBeen waiting until my local Maplins get them in (there doing that) and as I prefer to walk into a shop then this might explain why they never got any in end of September. Good news and good move.
- meaty 14y agoI wouldn't bother waiting for Maplin. They made a big flap about stocking Arduino boards and kits and have they ever got any in? No! <insert rant about how Maplin rocked in the 1980's but went down the pan>
- Zenst 14y agoduely noted and agree about the spread of products and there audience now compared to 1980's - certianly was more electrical enthusiast back then compared with the range of stocking junk they tend to have nowadays dominating there stores. But that said I do feel they will come true on this one as they already taken pre-orders (though going to wait so I can walk in and pop down some hard currency and walk out with one myself) http://www.maplin.co.uk/raspberrypi http://www.maplin.co.uk/raspberrypi But we shall see how history unfolds, you may be right though I have good feelings on this. Just recalled why maplins went downhill as there used to be maplins shops and tandy/radio shack shops and it was the later that sold the chinz shall we say. Now there is just maplins filling both holes.
- meaty 14y agoIndeed. Maplin are like an Argos these days, except the service is worse than Argos and you have to wait longer to be served, and they have less in stock, and the staff run away when you ask them anything. Looking at their £69 offer - it does look pretty good actually. If they deliver, I'll be very surprised and would consider forgiving them for a while :) Tandy - £1 for 5 resistors!! How could they possibly have failed?
- jufo 14y agoOn Saturday Maplin's online stock check said there were two starter kits still in stock at Wimbledon - a little over a mile away from me. There had been five in stock a few days before. I walked there and was in time to get the last one. Now there seem to be none left in the London area, and the online site says new stock is due in 16 days. Let's hope the next batch will have 512MB Pis - the Pi in my kit is in an element14 box, but is not the latest board version (not made in UK, no mounting holes).
- pjmlp 14y agoGreat! Can we now turn the Pi into a new version of the Amiga 500?
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- vyrotek 14y agoAh, the nostalgia. My father still has his multiple Amigas stored away. I believe it was on the Amiga 2000 which he first taught me how to program. I bet a raspberry pi with Amiga OS installed on his TV would make his day. :)
- pjmlp 14y agoNow you made me feel old. :) I learned to program in a Timex 2068, many many moons ago. :)
- zurn 14y agoRAM-wise you could emulate 1000 instances of the low-end A500 on a RPi now... Wonder how the memory bandwidth and DMIPS numbers are compared to a m68k.
- nitrogen 14y agoThe Pi would be perfect if only they can fix the problems with USB and isochronous transfers that prevent the Kinect from working. There was mention of work being done on this in the comments, so here's hoping a kernel update solves the USB issues.
- Zenst 14y agoGreat news though I personaly would prefer to see another ethernet port (yes can add one via USB but not at full ethernet speeds). Would make a brilliant firewall box then and one area I'd love to have one in place.
- IgorPartola 14y agoI wonder what they are doing with all the 256MBhard boards they have left. It would be pretty tight timing for them to get all the old units sold at the exact same time.
- topbanana 14y agoThey don't have any. They sensibly waited to announce this until they were already shipping the 512MB variant.
- SeanDav 14y agoLove this idea but really it would be great if they could offer a more expensive and powerful version as an option.
- nvr219 14y agoThis is great news for the people who are building the raspberry pi-powered vaporizer - http://raspberryhigh.wikia.com/wiki/Raspberryhigh_Wiki http://raspberryhigh.wikia.com/wiki/Raspberryhigh_Wiki
- jivatmanx 14y agoRasberry Pies Forever
- compilercreator 14y agoPeople interested in the Pi may also be interested in the Parallela board kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su... $99 board with dual-core ARM Cortex A9 and a 16-core accelerator chip
- lobster45 14y agoEven though the price is $35, you can not get it anywhere for $35. Most of the places sell them for $40 and over.
- tapsboy 14y agoThe last time I checked on MCM electronics website, they were selling it for $35
- simarpreet007 14y agoOMG, Canada Newark got 100+ of them and they're all gone! I feel so lucky that I got one!
- janus 14y agoThis just arrived at my email inbox: Your Raspberry Pi order was despatched today. If you ordered a Raspberry Pi board as part of your order we are pleased to inform you that we have sent you the upgraded 512MB Revision 2 board to thank you for your continued patience. We hope this upgrade is acceptable to you.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI got this same email today from Newark/element14. My order, which I placed about a week ago, still says they won't be shipping until Nov 1st though.
- patrickgzill 14y agoI got a CubieBoard from CubieBoard.org specifically because it came with more RAM and had a faster CPU. So seems RPi is responding well and trying to grow their market.
- 3amOpsGuy 14y agoThat device had passed me by, this was a useful link, although it appears there are problems getting the boards shipped out. The specs look excellent for the price.
- vindicated 14y agoI just got mine 3 days ago with 256 MB RAM.. now I'm wishing it had been delayed.
- lie07 14y agoI feel the same way :(
- cheema33 14y agoI ordered 4 today from Element 14, for a project I am working on. I was joking with a friend that I expected that they would ship them in 2013 sometime. And then I got a UPS tracking number in the email later the same day. My jaw is dropped.