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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Tom Metro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmetro%2Bhhacking@gmail.com">tmetro+hhacking@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Raspberry Pi update...<br>
<br>
A few weeks back they posted pricing and delivery charges to various<br>
countries. The price, with delivery, is $40 for the US (via Newark).<br>
<br>
Programming the Raspberry Pi webinar with Eben, April 4<br>
<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/840" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/840</a><br>
<br>
Eben's hosting this...webinar with Element 14 on April 4 at...10am<br>
EST. The subject matter will suit beginners, and should be pretty<br>
interesting for those of you who are hardened hackers too. He'll be<br>
showing you how to:<br>
* download and install the Operating System on the SD card<br>
* run the boot up script<br>
* use the script editor and begin to create applications using the<br>
presupplied Python scripts<br>
...you'll need to sign up for the event at Element 14´s website. ...a<br>
video of the webinar will be made available for those of you who can't<br>
attend...<br>
<br>
<br>
There is also a another product delay, this time due to CE compliance.<br>
They thought, like the BeagleBoard, they could sell the uncased board to<br>
developers and defer compliance testing until later in the year when<br>
they release a version in a case.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/878" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/878</a><br>
<br>
...we have spoken with BIS this morning, and they have confirmed that,<br>
given the volumes involved and the demographic mix of likely users,<br>
any development board exemption is not applicable to us; as a result,<br>
even the first uncased developer units of Raspberry Pi will require a<br>
CE mark prior to sale in the EU.<br>
...<br>
The good news is that our first 2,000 boards arrived in the UK on<br>
Monday and that we are working to get them CE marked as soon as is<br>
humanly possible, in parallel with bringing the remainder of our<br>
initial batch into the country.<br>
...<br>
On the basis of preliminary measurements, we expect emissions from the<br>
uncased product to meet category A requirements comfortably without<br>
modification, and possibly to meet the more stringent category B<br>
requirements which we had originally expected would require a<br>
metalised case.<br>
<br>
The posting also shows pictures of stacks of Pi boards and some shots of<br>
the QA testing performed in China.<br>
<br>
Ars covered the compliance testing delay in an article:<br>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/first-batch-of-35-linux-computer-arrives-in-uk-awaiting-ce-compliance-testing.ars" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/first-batch-of-35-linux-computer-arrives-in-uk-awaiting-ce-compliance-testing.ars</a><br>
<br>
Some more photos of the board and screen shots of it running an Atari<br>
emulator:<br>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/sets/72157629550077581/with/6827874250/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/sets/72157629550077581/with/6827874250/</a><br>
<br>
And some shots of a "pallet of Pis" fresh from the manufacturer, and the<br>
relatively small boxes that hold 50 boards:<br>
<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/945" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/945</a><br>
<br>
<br>
I guess the bottom line for now is that they are still working through<br>
compliance testing, and first shipments still sound to be weeks off.<br>
<br>
Even if I could have, I don't think I would have bothered pre-ordering.<br>
At the time, too much was unknown about how US distribution would work.<br>
Now it seems like it'll be months still before they are stocked locally.<br>
If they run into similar compliance issues here and need to go for FCC<br>
testing, it will delay even further, or they may decide it isn't worth<br>
the cost.<br>
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-Tom<br>
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