This is what I have been looking for as a gift for my child. I am a child of the BBC modle B erea and feel this will introduce my son to computer like my feeble attempts of 8 bit programming did for me. Dispite being an Engineer now and nothing to do with software, I do feel my grasp of computers is better from my informative years….

Everything is well written, but one point took my attention:
“But the ARM side is a standard v7 core…”.
As I knew, the R-Pi is an ARMv6 device.

Hi
I am an ICT teacher in a middle school in Cranfield (MK43) and I would like to run a project with my year 8s. Our school does an option (one hour a week) and this would be ideal to get my students into computer science. I could do with some help too.
Would it not be great if there was ascheme of work to give to schools so that the intergration did not have to rely on IT teacher’s professional (or lack of) knowledge.
I am very happy to assist in any way.

If you are interested in this project then maybe you should head here and sign the following e-petition: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/15081

“Start teaching coding as a part of the curriculum in Yr 5. If it can be introduced as a part of the central curriculum in Year 5, then by the time those kids are drawn up through the education system, there would be far less of a disparity between the sexes – and maybe even an increased number of young people with an ability to manipulate open data, relate to code and challenge each other to design and build the digital products that we have not even begun to imagine. Year 8 is too late, we are losing the female coders and we need this generation to help us code a better country”

Good article. It should cut way down on the repetitive questions that Liz gets, since it explains so many things about the project.

Ha! I crack me up!
I assume there’s already a keyboard macro set to “That information is in the FAQ.” on Liz’s computer.

Best article I have seen thus far!

“Things are moving very fast here at Raspberry Towers; this looks like being an interesting week!”

Now you got me excited! Things certainly seem to have been accelerating over the past few days. Am I reading correctly between the lines that we may expect more news this week?

Writer of the articles certainly seems to have read through the forum posts!

Professional and informed article. Enjoyed reading.
. . . meanwhile in Puppy Linux land . . . our forum is back and everyone in the kennels (our name for the Puppyverse) has been issued with extra doggy biscuits to celebrate.
Puppy developers and testers are readying Woof 2, Saluki and Slacko. We are going to have that Puppy on board. Booting faster. Running at full frisk and herding deer at Richmond Park before you can say ‘Fenton’.

is the article offline? Or have anybody a text backup. Thx.

This should be a required read before posting in the forum :)

Hi,

I tried posting this in the last update (about the GPIO pins) but I keep getting an error every time I try to post. Thank you for posting the GPIO info, I’d been looking all over for it. I was wondering if anyone could tell me that the theoretical maximum data input speed is for those pins. Are they running at the same frequency as the processor core, or at some other frequency. Sorry, if this question doesn’t make sense for some reason. I’m a little new to this low level of hardware interfacing.

Thanks.

I read the The Register regularly and I liked the article,

I’m just wondering though, the article mentioned a model coming with a case next year, will you also be selling the cases separately for early buyers? Thanks

Enough now. I command thee to release these treats.

Great Article! I would like to get in touch with Liz and Eben regarding using the Rasberry Pi in a school project in Bangladesh with NGO Rotary International as we already are using computers but would love to use the Rasberry Pi! Let me know the best way to get in touch! Kind regards, Genevieve (@pomiloup on twitter or skype)

Looking at the pictures in the article, verses what we’ve seen on the front page, I see some discrepancies. Were the ones in the article old versions, and so were part of the ‘design phase’, and not final product?

The Register article was a great reminder for me to join the mailing list – after reading about this project earlier this year –
I would love to get two for Christmas – one for my 11 year old and one for me!
Keep up with the good work.

I’ve got to tell you guys at the Raspberry, 10,000 is nowhere near enough. I’m going to be needing 3 of those Model Bs, one each for my kids and one for their dad. Learning how to code at the same time should be fun.

I’m also going to be looking at ways to raise funds to purchase enough for both of their schools.

The next 10 years look like they may be a lot of fun.

Thanks to everyone at R-Pi

Where is it? It’s nearly December and still not able to buy one :(

Pleeeease release them soon.

Yes it was a good article and I circulated links to it around interested parties here in Silicon Valley. The effect that the BBC and ZX81/Spectrum had is still felt fairly strongly here on the other side of the world and there is an expectation that this type of IT education innovation is somehow a natural product of the UK.

For me the real indicator of success will come if the Maker community here adopt the RaspberryPi in the same way that they have the Arduino, or perhaps the two together. The Maker movements driven by Tim O’Reilly and Co. is getting technology into classrooms and on to kitchen tables by enabling adults to have the skills to start the process of enabling kids to teach themselves tech.

Keep up the great posts! I’m curious about whether you are planning to do any U.S.-based distribution of these with the first big batch perhaps to lower shipping for those of us across the pond?

ooh man reading that article got me really going now..
I so want the device to be out soon ;) have tons of project going on in my head for it.

[…] New article in The Register | Raspberry Pi I don't usually post links to media stories about Raspberry Pi here, but today's article in The Register was so good and so informative that I thought it'd be a shame to leave it hidden away in the news section of the forums. Source: http://www.raspberrypi.org […]

A good article.

It’s just a pity the Reg seems to let the comments descend into a free-for-all between the OSS Nazis, the Anti-Broadcom League and the Gimmies :)

I’m afraid our Rasp. units are in dangerous and we are going to wait a long time to get one because all this public events :(

That’s one hell of an understatement there James :D

Respect from Ethiopia!