Liz: Today’s guest post comes from Alex Eames, who runs the rather wonderful RasPi.TV . He’s been furtling through his drawers, and has discovered he owns a surprising number of Raspberry Pi variants.
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A collection of Pis
When we announced the Model B+ back in July, we said that we’d also be producing a lower-cost variant, analogous to the original Model A. Since then, James has been beavering away, and today we’re pleased to announce the release of the Raspberry Pi Model A+ at a new low price of $20 . Smaller, more energy-efficient and crazy-affordable Like the Model A, the Model A+ uses the BCM2835 application processor and has 256MB RAM, but it is significantly smaller (65mm in length, versus 86mm for the Model A), consumes less power , and inherits the many improvements that we made to the Model B+, including: More GPIO
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Raspberry Pi Model A+ on sale now at $20
I’ve been pointed at a couple of videos which might interest you: you’ll learn something new from both of these. First up, Eben explains more about the Compute Module to our friends at RS Components: And a little later on, Gordon, our Head of Software, gave a talk to the Prime Conference at the Royal Institution about the decisions that led us to repatriate manufacture of the Raspberry Pi to the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqDIopa5rA Enjoy!
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Talks from Team Pi
As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader of this website, production of the Raspberry Pi started in China back at the start of 2012, but has been gradually moving to Wales since last September. One of our distributors, Premier Farnell/Element14, already makes 100% of its Pis in the Welsh Sony factory in Pencoed, where Pis are built under licence. The other, RS Components, is in the process of moving the vast bulk of its manufacture to Wales as well (although they will continue to make a much reduced number of Pis in China for the Far East market)
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500,000 Pis in Wales
Liz: Do you remember those snippets of film from factories they used to show on educational kids’ shows when we were little? I have a very lucid memory of an episode of Playschool which (via the arched window) took you through the making of a rubber glove, and another segment featuring the manufacture of with chocolate biscuits. The manufacturing process is fascinating for us grownups. It’s even better if you’re a kid
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Guest post from Code Club: Raspberry Pi factory visit
BBC Radio Wales’ Science Cafe programme this week came from the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales , that makes the Raspberry Pi for us under licence. It’s only available for UK listeners (my mistake – the BBC’s territorial thingbat doesn’t extend to radio broadcasts, so you can listen anywhere in the world – as long as you aren’t Gert, who is still having problems), and only for the next five days
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BBC Wales Science Cafe broadcast from the Pi factory