Raspberry Pi budget computer enters production

ponder said:
It's not that hard to understand German. Afrikaans, Dutch, German are all Germanic languages and not that hard to read. It only gets a bit harder when you get to the Scandinavian languages with Icelandic & Faroese being the hardest to interpret.
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Yeah but not all people are as awesome as us ;-)
 
Any news on these.

By the way I registered on both sites(first via the int then saw the local link) so maybe I can now get 2 :D

I got the english email a few days after the German one.
 
From what we've heard it's probable that we will get them next month. I think the demand to supply ratio is outrageously high.
 
Got an e-mail last night advertising that I can purchase. Did the purchase, on the website they advertised despatch in JUNE!!!

Thought oh well, still placed the order. Just got an e-mail saying it has been brought forward - the 3rd of April. Let's see how it goes!
 
From Raspberry Pi Blog

It’s inevitable, isn’t it – you’re freewheeling along perfectly happily and then you get a puncture.

As you’ll have noticed, there’s been a bit of a delay in shipping the first batch of Raspberry Pis out to people. This is because of a hardware parts substitution that was made in the factory by accident: specifically, where we’d specified jacks with integrated magnetics in the BOM and schematics, the factory soldered in non-magnetic jacks. No magnetics means no network connection. We’ve known about this for four days now, but we haven’t been able to tell you about it because it meant we had to do some further tests to make sure that nothing else was affected.

Happily, it’s a very minor problem to fix (desolder the dud jack/solder on a new one), and the factory is nearly done working on replacing them on the first set of boards. This means that the first tranche of boards should still go out to customers as we were expecting. There may now be a slight delay in later batches if there’s a problem sourcing enough magnetic jacks (we’ve got teams hunting them down already); all the stock of jacks we believed we had in place and ready to turn into the ethernet ports on your Raspberry Pis turn out not to be the correct part, so we’re having to start again and move through the negotiating/ordering/delivery cycle as fast as we can. Our partners at Element 14/Premier Farnell and RS Components are working hard to help us cater for this, and to expedite supply of the Raspberry Pi.

We are very, very sorry. We know you want your Raspberry Pi as soon as possible (and many of you are being inhumanly patient, having followed us since we launched this website eight months ago). We’ll keep you updated with how manufacture is moving; this is, in the scheme of things, a minor problem, but it’s still a bump in the road and we know that we rely on your goodwill to keep things moving forward.
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MrWireless said:
Got an e-mail last night advertising that I can purchase. Did the purchase, on the website they advertised despatch in JUNE!!!

Thought oh well, still placed the order. Just got an e-mail saying it has been brought forward - the 3rd of April. Let's see how it goes!
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Where did you order it from dude?:cry:

I registered on za.rs-online.com several times last night but didn't receive any email confirmation yet.

I want, I need.
 
jarrodr said:
Where did you order it from dude?:cry:

I registered on za.rs-online.com several times last night but didn't receive any email confirmation yet.

I want, I need.
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You will be in one huge backlogged queue.
 
DISTRIBUTOR RS Components said it will have the first batch of Raspberry Pi microcomputers in its warehouses by the end of March.
RS Components along with Farnell were picked as distributors by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to flog its tiny cut-price computer, however both firms have been overwhelmed by demand. Since the 29 February launch, Raspberry Pi had reported the discovery of a manufacturing fault with Ethernet jacks used on the device ,resulting in RS Components now saying it expects to receive the first batch in its warehouse towards the end of March and will dispatch them on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation's plan to sell a £21 computer has garnered significant consumer and media interest. The first batch of devices sold out within minutes and the outfit has been working to reassure those who missed out on the first batch that more Raspberry Pi units are coming.
Glenn Jarrett, head of Electronics Marketing at RS Components said, "We have never experienced this level of interest in a product and it has been challenging to address the unexpectedly high levels of demand. However, rather than simply rush Raspberry Pi to market, our priority is to ensure that customers receive a product of outstanding quality and reliability. I know it's frustrating for those waiting to receive a board but I'm certain they will be delighted when they get it. We'd like customers to know that RS is working on a number of initiatives to help them get the most from these innovative, educational computer boards and we'll be announcing these over the coming weeks."
Liz Upton, the public face of the Raspberry Pi Foundation also commented that it was caught out by the high demand but echoed Jarrett's comments, saying RS Components had "committed all available resources to ramp up production and deliver Raspberry Pi boards to eager customers as soon as possible".
Although the Raspberry Pi is nothing more than a very cheap computer, it is being marketed as a device that will help students learn how to program rather than drive Microsoft Office. Last week the popular Fedora Linux distribution announced an operating system geared specifically for use on the Raspberry Pi. µ
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Here's some good new on OpenELEC on the PI.

OpenELEC on RaspBerry Pi. Our first ARM device supported!


We are happy to announce our first ARM port and support for RaspBerry Pi. Many thanks to the XBMC Team member Edgar (gimli) Hucek and the whole XBMC dev team for supporting us with this!

This is our first ARM build and is early days but it spells yet another suite of current and future hardware that OpenELEC will support. In the future you can expect to see more and more capable ARM based hardware at low cost coming onto the market and OpenELEC will be with you all the way to integrate these devices into your home.
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Well, AFAIK, RS ships free in SA... So I'm still hoping to see R259+vat
 
Email received from RS today:

Hello to all our Raspberry Pi followers - UPDATE ALERT!

Firstly, we are very grateful for all the patience you have shown as we deal with the tremendous interest in the Raspberry Pi - it has been phenomenal and it is fantastic that there is so much enthusiasm for it out there.

We know how keen you all are to get your hands on the product and get programming, however Raspberry Pi has made us aware of a ‘manufacturing hiccup’ with the initial batch that came to light following additional testing. Fortunately the problem is only minor and Raspberry Pi is working to correct it. A full explanation can be found on the Raspberry Pi website We’re continuing to work closely with the Raspberry Pi foundation to minimise any delay in getting the Raspberry Pi to you and hope that you will bear with us a little longer. We’ll keep updating our FAQs to give you information as we receive it.

A lot of you have also asked about how we are managing our queue, and when you’ll be invited to place your order for a Raspberry Pi. We’re going to be receiving the boards in batches, as we receive confirmation that the batches are ready, we’ll be inviting you on a first come, first serve basis, from time of original registration, to place orders on our new Raspberry Pi online store. The invitations will be sent to groups that match the number of boards we have available, to ensure that if you place an order, we’re able to take it and tell you when we can ship your Raspberry Pi.

Thanks again for your patience, and we’ll be in touch again next week for a further update.



RS Components Ltd
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