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Posted 4 February 2013
Raspberry Pi Model A £18.88 inc VAT with Free Delivery at CPC
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Best deal yet on this little baby. The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer with thousands of possible uses.
For the hard of reading, for free delivery from Monday 4th to end of Friday 8th Feb read this which says:
- digitaltoast
For the hard of reading, for free delivery from Monday 4th to end of Friday 8th Feb read this
cpc.farnell.com/jsp…jsp
which says:
"To take advantage of the free delivery / handling simply add WEBFREE as an order comment when
placing your order. Please note this offer is only available on UK deliveries."
- digitaltoast
Quidco!
- jadrules
For the hard of reading, for free delivery from Monday 4th to end of Friday 8th Feb read this which says:
"To take advantage of the free delivery / handling simply add WEBFREE as an order comment when
placing your order. Please note this offer is only available on UK deliveries."
placing your order. Please note this offer is only available on UK deliveries."
- digitaltoast
For the hard of reading, for free delivery from Monday 4th to end of Friday 8th Feb read this
cpc.farnell.com/jsp…jsp
which says:
"To take advantage of the free delivery / handling simply add WEBFREE as an order comment when
placing your order. Please note this offer is only available on UK deliveries."
- digitaltoast
Quidco!
- jadrules
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sorted byAlmost totally wrong except for the RAM spec. The model A is brand new, launched only today. Model A is lacking ethernet and only has one USB port and "consumes roughly a third of the power of the Model B".
Different things for different needs - if you want to build, for example, a low-cost solar-powered data-logger that you download from via USB every few days, then Model A is for you. If you want something like XBMC then Model B is yours. Of course, you can always plug a USB hub and USB ethernet adaptor into it and you'd pretty much have a Model B just with half the RAM.
But to say it's an "older" version is totally incorrect.
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Raspi FTW
Well, in all honesty we'd never say it was a perfect system but unfortunately it's the only way we can make it work at the moment - Various options are being explored that will make it work cleaner in the future, but for now we're doing what we can...
Pretty sure that most of our customers would rather us put the offer on this way than not at all
So you'll vote something cold because you can't follow instructions properly? I mean, FFS, it's a MASSIVE red and blue banner on the right hand site. It leads to cpc.farnell.com/jsp…jsp and says:
Capiche? If you're not following that, then I really think a PI isn't for you...
The 'A' model *has* been around for ages; it used to be 128Mb but they upgraded it to 256 when the Model B got an upgrade. Ref here from last Feb.
I think this'll be the first time it's released in Europe though. Not 100% sure.
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No, the model A has been talked about for ages, but only went into production last month. The foundation believed that Model B's would be more widely wanted due to built in Ethernet.
No, this is the first time the model A has been available for sale anywhere.
Source ? raspberry pi foundation themselves: raspberrypi.org
i think you're confusing "latest" with "fastest"... it IS the latest model.
Yup, and like 99% of other people, it worked just fine. But then, I followed the instructions.
It's been working to get kids interested in CS, although I do question whether in some of the news stories that they have on the site the kid would have just been programming on a "normal" computer instead.
Then again, I've probably missed the whole point of this site in writing this post...it is a hot deal for a media box!
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Grow-UP !!!
Dongle or Pi ........ Depends what you want to do with it
I have a Pi running DMX lighting system(with touch screen)
I have a Pi in a retro arcade machine
I have a Pi for development projects
I have a dongle for internet on the tv
No, £15.73 plus VAT @ 20% = £18.88
The website will display the price including handling but will be removed before dispatch. There are full instructions and explanations on the site (It'll even show the handling on the confirmation email, but it won't be on the final invoice you receive with the Pi)
This has taken place over my Apple TV 2 which only plays 720p. Fantastic piece of kit. Most Smart TV remotes can control the XBMC function too.
Yeah should be good to go. Should try Crysis 2 on it as well!!!
Yes I do capiche, Put FREEWEB in comment. Have you tried to order one? Condesending t#@t.
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If you're starting out try Python. There's a free Python programming course on Coursera currently, it finished in September but the full course is still available.
Learn to Program: The Fundamentals
class.coursera.org/pro…dex
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Still don't understand why people use these as HTPCs, terrible performance, they can't even handle decent themes properly lol.
Poor performance, limited codec support, etc.
Worst of all, you have to physically plug it in to turn it on. My grandad probably didnt even have to do to that to change the channel on his black and white telly (Well he probs did, but you get the point right?)
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What a gem. You followed the instructions to the letter, yet managed to end up with "FREEWEB" instead of "WEBFREE"
It's a computer which costs £18.88 including VAT and delivery. Here's a diagram:
Go on, take a wild guess - do you THINK it comes with a blu-ray disc drive?
That's not what he said, though. He said "The 'A' model *has* been around for ages". It hasn't. And it's not why it's called the model A, either.
Let me explain the basics to you.
Power = voltage * current .
Voltage remains constant for USB ports, but the current alters (ie the milliamp rating)
So please tell me, what exactly is wrong with what I stated ?
If your TV has HDMI and CEC you can just use your TV remote.
If the model B you can just hook it onto ethernet and use Yatse or the offical app on a smartphone, with the model A you can either get a wireless dongle. If you want something a little more fancy then you can use a ir receiver connected via the GPIO (outlined here).
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Cheap, but look great and are surprisingly solid.
Just don't wrap cable ties near the clips then tighten them too much as soon as I'd done it I thought why the hell did I do that?
Would you care to elaborate or are you just another village idiot laughing without any reason?
We do try and get the orders out for next day delivery but with the current free delivery promotion we're not claiming to manage that (we're saying 90%)
Is it a case of having placed your order and you've not got it when you were expecting it? - If it's been a couple of days and you've not got it then if you email your order reference to us at social@cpc.co.uk then we can take a look at it for you.
Ordered mine at 4pm on Monday, just arrived this morning (Thursday). Along with my Gertboard... gert lush!
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Thanks!
That is the killer for me. I have a model B running as a squeezebox server but wouldn't like to have to mess around trying to find a wifi adapter that works. These are cheap as chips though and probably better for use in schools and learning programming (like the Pi was originally designed for).
Depends on what you want to do. Its basically a mini computer with open GPIO pins.
The major OS(s) support most languages from the off or have libraries available.
The official forums and the MagPi publications should have more then enough information to get you started.