So the long awaited launch of the Raspberry Pi has ended in a total farce, with servers crashing and people not being able to order things from the selected vendors. http://www.osnews.com/story/25661/Raspberry_Pi_launch_turns_into_frenzy/
I hope this does not burn up all the good will it has generated.
Maybe this is a lesion of how not to do a much anticipated launch that the Arduino team will heed for the launch of the Due.
I cant wait to get mine ordered, actually I want a few to replace "big boxes"
that pentium laptop redirecting tcpip to serial for the retro bench can be replaced by one, my NAS by another, my XBOX which is a BEAST and requires an act of hackery to get it just to display 480i is another for streaming media
Just tried Mikes code on both farnell and rs and it just points to the register interest pages.
I suspect that it may have been an oversight by the sites that has now been removed.
Good luck though.
GordonEndersby:
Just tried Mikes code on both farnell and rs and it just points to the register interest pages.
I suspect that it may have been an oversight by the sites that has now been removed.
Good luck though.
Yes, I said in reply #3.
I think the back order figures must be some sort of metric that management use to measure performance and all this Raspberry Pi stuff is screwing that up. Plus I don't think they can deliver the second batch as quickly as they first thought.
Mine has been pushed back from May 11th to April 3rd at Newark, so I'm not sure what to believe. I'm in no rush anyway, because if was to get here tomorrow, then I would never get any work done. ]
Looks like it may end up being later, the factory put the wrong components on the boards ( rj45 jack ), I have yet to place my order so I think I'll have to wait until the next production run.
pYro_65:
Looks like it may end up being later, the factory put the wrong components on the boards ( rj45 jack ), I have yet to place my order so I think I'll have to wait until the next production run.
If true wouldn't be the first error caused by rushing production to make a 'release date', much like the original shield connector spacing error on the first arduino boards built, which is even to this day still a 'signature feature' of the arduino design.