That’s right, folks. It’s the Fifty Shades of Pi. Honestly…
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unique-Fifty-Shades-of-Raspberry-Case-for-Raspberry-Pi-/271046086316
512MB Raspberry Pi
New units with 512MB are now being produced and sold. The original was 256MB.
Raspberry Pi Foundation news article
I am not best pleased about this. Apparently, the new units are being sold for the same price as the old units. So, double the memory for free. I, however, ordered a Pi from New IT a couple of weeks ago and received it the next day. It’s a 256MB model. I was excited at the time – such quick delivery!
Alas, it seems I now have two Raspberry Pis which could be considered obsolete. I have asked on the Foundation post and on the Element 14 forum (the Farnell forum) whether suppliers have stocks of the 256MB units sitting on racks unable to be sold, and whether there is an upgrade path from 256MB to 512MB.
I am not holding my breath. The RPi is a famously closed system when it comes to the CPU and RAM.
Practical upshot? If I had waited one week longer, I’d be a proud soon-to-be-owner of one of the first 512MB units. Instead, I have to settle for the moderate happiness of having a Wales-manufactured Pi with the lower amount of memory. I consider myself a nerd, geek and early-adopter and, frankly, this just irritates the hell out of me!
Very disappointing… But somehow not surprised that yet another product update/launch has been bungled.
A One-Handed Touch-Screen Keyboard
Accessory Watch: RKS mdc kit
RKS mdc Raspberry PI & Arduino Prototype Shield Self Build Kit UK
Pretty good board for £6 including shipping
RKSxb mdc Prototype Project Board with Rasberry PI Header – designed to be fully compatible with shield bases
Main Features
- A low cost and simple method of prototyping shield projects
- The PCB has a Rasberry PI breakout header
- There are 2x SO8 breakouts
- Can be used with all Arduino and PIC/PICAXE shield bases
- Manufactured using a professional double sided PCB
- Designed to be compatible with shield bases
- Input and outputs are accessed via labelled headers around the PCB
- The PCB has 0V 3.3V, 5V and 12V power outputs
Accessory watch: PIGLET
This is the first in an ongoing series of posts about new bits of hardware I’ve spotted. There’s lots of people out there producing, normally small, breakout boards, so here’s one I spotted yesterday:
Picorder – Preparation photos
This weekend, I’m going to start assembling and cutting the shell for my new project the Picorder.
Here are some photos of the shell as it currently stands. It’s a Wharfedale PDO8710 portable DVD player that wasn’t wanted any more.
