Raspberry Pi - 25 Dollar PC on a USB stick

[Znirk]

http://www.raspberry...trademark-rules

I like how they demand that "Raspberry Pi" be used as an adjective phrase rather than a noun, but don't ever follow that rule themselves.

 

[EvilDragon]

Ah, okay, that does make sense that way.

 

[DaMummy]

Farnell/element14 just changed my ship date from April 2nd, to August 16th....they do still state 2012 though

 

[EvilDragon]

Ouch... it really has a lot of similiarities with what we've been doing here

 

[Prometheus]

I wonder where the folks who said that the Raspberry Pi Foundation would make no mistakes are, now?

 

[DaMummy]

under the bridge, where they usually stay

 

[Baleg]

Farnell/element14 just changed my ship date from April 2nd, to August 16th....they do still state 2012 though

On the Raspberry Pi homepage they explain that this was automatically changed by Farnell's ordering system since they are now waiting for the CE certification. So if everything goes well, they'll update it again with a shorter deadline. Let's hope so!

 

[gunni]

Farnell/element14 just changed my ship date from April 2nd, to August 16th....they do still state 2012 though

It would have been June but it appears "Two Months" was already taken!


Not heard a peep from RS regarding the certification, I think I'm pretty far down the list anyways so I'm not holding by breath for ordering.

 

[EvilDragon]

Well, CE shouldn't take long (testing can be done in one day), it's a self certification process, so no biggie.


If everything goes right, they could do it within a week.


However, they probably stopped the mass production until that is done - because IF something is wrong, they'd need to fix it on all produced ones.

 

[craigix]

We still have about 100 rolls of copper tape if they need any

 

[EvilDragon]

We still have about 100 rolls of copper tape if they need any

Heh


They don't have an LCD connected, so they shouldn't have any problems (unless they did some reeeeaally bad design).

 

[Binky]

What was the copper tape originally for?


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'copper' tape :rolleyes:

 

[craigix]

What was the copper tape originally for?


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'copper' tape :rolleyes:

To shield the LCD cable.

 

[ensoniq2k]

You can put the copper tape on the backside of the LCDs in the pandora as a wifi antenna booster :-D

 

[Prometheus]

However, they probably stopped the mass production until that is done - because IF something is wrong, they'd need to fix it on all produced ones.

My understanding is that the first batch of 10,000 was completed before Farnell and RS felt that they couldn't sell it as a development board, and that the compliance testing should be brought forward.


The factory were still replacing all of the non-magnetic Ethernet jacks (the RPi is supposed to use a magnetic one) that were mistakenly fitted to the 10,000 first batch boards, the last I heard, too.

 

[elwing]

You can put the copper tape on the backside of the LCDs in the pandora as a wifi antenna booster :-D

unfortunately bigger is not always better...

 

[T.T.]

You can put the copper tape on the backside of the LCDs in the pandora as a wifi antenna booster :-D

unfortunately bigger is not always better...

plus that would make the antennae unidirectional

 

[elwing]

What was the copper tape originally for?

an update to the old tinfoil hat

 

[Prometheus]

They've passed the compliance testing with flying colours, and with no need for any hardware modifications!

 

[Binky]

Now I just need a use for one...