> I've ordered a Pi (Farnell re-directs to a local distributor), but the > > delivery-time seems to be 3 weeks right now(?) > > Good luck with that! Some six months ago I ordered an original (256MB) > Series-B RPi from Allied Electronics here in the USA. It went > out-of-stock there even as I was pressing the "commit" button. Two > months later, I happened to catch Newark (now tied together with > Farnell) showing them in stock and snagged one before they also depleted > their stock on hand. Since that time everyone over here has been showing > this same 3-week lead time. I suppose that means there is a container > full of 512MB boards somewhere on the high seas. >
Ouch. It seems the rev B (512Mb) is however available on e-bay with short delivery times so that would be one option. Continuously having these production/delivery problems is not good news for Pi-based projects. I hope they fix that. > PS - Have you seen the Eaton HMi VU Operator Interface > ( > http://www.alliedelec.com/lp/121120eaton/?utm_source=product&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121120_product > ). > It's too pricey for my blood but interesting in that it is basically an > encapsulation of many of the features we talk about. > Yes! These look similar(ish) to what I was thinking about. It seems a proper enclosure will cost as much as the Pi, and a 7" touch-screen is about 2-3x the cost of a Pi. So it is around 200 $/eur minimum for a Pi with a touch-screen. My plan will be to look at analog and digital IO over the SPI bus, and see how that can be interfaced to HAL. AW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
