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Title: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: System on August 01, 2012, 01:40:14 PM
(http://www.vesalia.de/pic/raspberrypi.jpg)

Raspberry Pi Model B

w/ 256 MB RAM, 2 USB Ports and Ethernet

The Raspberry Pi (short: RPi or RasPi) is an ultra-low-cost credit-card sized computer board which was conceived with the primary goal of teaching computer programming to children. It's also a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games, it even plays high-definition video. Or you can use it as a small server for applications like mpd (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki) or ownCloud (http://owncloud.org/). Or as a gaming or emulation system, e.g. the RPi board plus Keyrah (http://www.vesalia.de/e_keyrah.htm) plus a C64 case and keyboard make a superb Über-Commodore machine. :-)

The system must be booted from an SD card (suitable card images are freely available (http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads)), other mass storage devices can be connected via USB.

Features:
Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi logo are trademarks of the Raspberry Pi Foundation (http://raspberrypi.org/).

EUR 39.99 incl. 19% German VAT (EUR 33.61 excl. VAT for non-EU customers)

More... (http://www.vesalia.de/e_raspberrypi.htm)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: Delta on August 02, 2012, 02:21:06 AM
Shame on me I received mine a couple of weeks ago and did not even try it yet !
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: Tenacious on August 02, 2012, 04:44:42 AM
Impressive!  It will be interesting to see what can be done with this as time goes by.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: Boot_WB on August 02, 2012, 08:09:31 PM
Quote from: System;701782
(http://www.vesalia.de/pic/raspberrypi.jpg)

url=http://www.vesalia.de/e_raspberrypi.htm    More...    /url


Seems more than a little dishonest to be disguising this advertising link for Vesalia as a neutral news item. Especially when the Raspberry Pi model B is actually £29.46 including delivery.

Should anyone wish to buy one from a recognised distributor, rather than this "Amiga company" making 30% markup on a product made by a charity:

https://export.farnell.com/jsp/raspi/purchase.jsp?country=GB
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: AmmoJammo on August 30, 2012, 07:06:18 AM
I've just ordered one of these (from element14)

shall see how it goes ;)

I'd always wanted to build a Sega Megadrive emulator into a sega case, while keeping all the external connectors original...

this looks almost perfect for it ;)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: persia on August 30, 2012, 01:36:49 PM
This Ad is in the

WRONG FORUM!!!!

(http://freefunnypixs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/YouFailfish.jpg)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi Model B Board
Post by: AmmoJammo on August 30, 2012, 11:30:52 PM
Quote from: Boot_WB;701987
making 30% markup on a product made by a charity:

https://export.farnell.com/jsp/raspi/purchase.jsp?country=GB

it is still better than the 80-100% markup I've seen on ebay...