A few weeks ago Matt Timmons-Brown, The Raspberry Pi Guy , visited Pi Towers to interview Raspberry Pi Trading CEO Eben Upton. Over the course of an hour and a half, Matt drew Eben’s detailed answers on some of the topics that hundreds of you put forward in response to a call for questions.
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The Raspberry Pi Guy interviews Eben
This is something I’ve been meaning to try for myself in some of the ruined iron-age villages up on the moors in Cornwall and Devon one summer. Richard Hayler and his son learned about kite mapping at last year’s EMF festival , where the younger Hayler won the workshop competition. The prize?
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Kite mapping
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
We’ve talked before about how the camera board and the Model A are natural bedfellows. Whether you’re shooting a time lapse video or hollowing out a sweet, innocent teddy bear, the 256MB of RAM on the Model A is easily sufficient to run raspistill and raspivid , and the much lower power consumption gives you a lot more battery life for mobile applications. To allow more of you to have a play with this combination, we’ve got together with our partners to offer the two together for the bargain price of $40
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Get a Model A and a camera board for $40
Of course, Model A is not the only new bit of hardware we’re releasing in 2013. JamesH just sent me these pictures of the forthcoming camera board to whet your appetite. This is the final hardware; we’ve been working on tuning (Gert tells me that picture quality is “pretty good” at the moment, but we’re hoping to get it to “bleedin’ marvellous” before we release the hardware), and there is some work to do on the drivers, but everything’s looking pretty peachy for the moment
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Raspberry Pi camera module sneak peak, and Model A unboxing
RS Components and Premier Farnell/element14 have Model A Raspberry Pis in stock as of this morning. (See the Where To Buy area on the right side of the page for links.) For the first tranche of orders, Model A will only be available in Europe . We’ll lift this restriction very soon so the rest of the world can order too.
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Model A now for sale in Europe – buy one today!