In message <4f5075c9.2000...@dunbar-it.co.uk>, Norman Dunbar
<nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> writes
Morning all,
I see someone has pre-ordered 10 and is offering on ebay for £95
each. I thought only one per person was allowed. Wish we could rid
ourselves of these "touts" trying to collar the market.
The person on ebay was shut down pretty quickly by the Raspberry Pi
Foundation. He had nothing to sell and was showing an image of a
pre-production alpha board. The rule about one per person stand.
The cost is £21.56 ish not including postage and the only places you
can get one is from RS or Farnell.
... They had also managed to get someone who was involved in
the original BBC Model B, to interview.
Yes, David Braben. He wrote (or co-wrote) Elite for the BBC and is a
founding member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Like others, I can wait a while ... then, too, there will have been some
things written to be able to use on the machine ... :-)
Not really. It comes with Fedora Linux on an SD card, or you supply
one, so you have all the tools for development at hand already. The
Fedora image takes about 2 Gb so the rest of the card can be used for
data.
RSIC-OS is also available for it.
In education we are already familiar with dedicated devices for
controlling hardware ... like Lego MindStorms and Picaxe, to name but two.
Better than most schools then. ICT seems to involve learning to
spreadsheet and word process but little else. A friend of mine with
children bought my old laptop so that the kids could be taught useful
things about computers, not just what they get in ICT at school.
Still ... lots of potential fun to come in the future .....
Indeed.
Cheers,
Norm.
Hi Norman,
I thought that you would one the first 'Rpi" owners ... :-)
I have not heard of Fedora Linux ... though I guess it not a hat?
Development tools ... yes, but what actual software or 'apps' are
already around to make it immediately usable?
I specialised in control and electronics and all the 'new technology'
stuff, so was always being creative.
Schools have mirrored and followed almost exactly all of the previous
mistakes that industry first followed.
New technology comes along ... some people find a use for it, and
develop something creative ... then someone wants to manage it all, so
along come IT Managers and 'standard' software packages that all have to
use ... creativity drops off ... then someone has a new idea to get rid
of all the managers and put the technology back in the hands of people
who can find a use for it ... creativity starts .....
--
Malcolm Cadman
_______________________________________________
QL-Users Mailing List
http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
