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Featured #RaspberryPi online shop: Mallinson Electrical

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Raspberry Pi UK Stockist | Electronics Components

I’ve been contacted by Mallinson Electrical, who distribute the Raspberry Pi and associated bits and pieces. They let me know that they had dropped the price of the Pi and I thought I’d take a look to see what their overall prices are like.

I get nothing out of this personally, I just think it’s interesting how different companies sell the same thing in different ways for different prices.

So, here we go. All prices are inclusive of VAT. Anything above £5 (which is most things) qualifies for free shipping.

  • Raspberry Pi – Model A – £24.50
  • Raspberry Pi – Model B – £29.50
  • Camera module – £24.95
  • Wi-Pi wireless dongle – £12.50
  • Gertboard (assembled) – £39
  • Pi-Face – £28.50
  • Simple Pi enclosure – £5.99

Their prices make them very similar to CPC/Farnell when you take into account shipping.

Visit the Mallinson Electrical shop

Making, Video

#RaspberryPi with 3.2″ touch screen

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Mark Williams has worked long and hard to get a small SainSmart touch screen device working with his Raspberry Pi. It may be low resolution, and tiny, but this has an awful lot of applications (I’d love to integrate it with the Picorder, for instance). Great job Mark – I look forward to more details on replicating your work! Read more here or watch the video below.

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#RaspberryPi Tracker Map reaches 1st Anniversary

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RasTrack

Ryan Walmsley’s RasTrack.co.uk has today reached it’s first anniversary. The website, which tracks where Raspberry Pis are located and then displays them on a Google Map, is currently showing over 21,000 Pis.

If you haven’t yet registered your Pi, head over to RasTrack!

Ryan has also blogged about his first year with the Pi.

Congratulations on your achievement, Ryan, and I hope you get more and more people registering their Pis!