Raspberry Pi #8 First Photoshoot

By on January 13, 2012 in gadgets, linux

I came home from work this evening to find a small brown parcel containing a Raspberry Pi beta board that I had won in an ebay auction earlier this week. It was a charity auction with all the proceeds go to supporting the Raspberry Pi foundation whose aim is to promote computer science and electronics at the school level. I think this is an admirable aim – computer science has enabled me to run my own business, and I feel passionately that we should improve the teaching of it in schools.

The production boards should be going on sale in the next few months for £16 / £25 each depending on the model you choose. For those of you who are looking forward to ordering your own, I have taken some photos of it against my iPhone so you can get a better idea of the size for yourselves.

The first thing that strikes you about the Raspberry Pi board is how small it is. I had seen pictures of it online, but I’m sure it looked bigger! It’s great to see how far computing has evolved since I got my first BBC Model B computer approximately 25 years ago.

You can see the full size Raspberry Pi board diagram here.

Although these boards were designed for schools, I think they will transform the world of computing in myriad other ways. A few years ago the OLTP foundation set out to build a $100 laptop. 2012 marks the beginning of the $20 desktop.

What is the Raspberry Pi?

The Raspberry Pi board is effectively an entire computer on a credit card size board. Like a cut down Mac Mini, all you need is a keyboard and a monitor and you can run a full Linux desktop operating system like Fedora or Debian. It’ll even play Quake 3 and full 1080p films!

Re-using these photos

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9 Responses to Raspberry Pi #8 First Photoshoot

  1. Tim January 13, 2012 at 10:31 pm #

    1) 25 years ago? Wow you must be as old as me ;-)

    2) Your blog count this year has already surpassed last year’s and we’re only in month one!

    3) I’ve been thinking about how we could support a local charity. We don’t want to pluck a charity out of a hat, but rather do something where we can really help in terms of our Internet expertise. I wonder if we could start a London – Aldershot scheme to assist with web design / hosting / accounting for start up businesses for people in underprivileged circumstances wanting to start their own business.

  2. Sander January 13, 2012 at 10:37 pm #

    OK, great, but … are already an OS on it (Debian, Arch, or …)? And if so, are you able to browse the web with a webbrowser?

    I really wonder how a 700 Mhz & 256 MB RAM system performs with a GUI and webbrowser …

  3. Liz January 13, 2012 at 10:41 pm #

    Thanks *so* much for supporting the Raspberry Pi Foundation by bidding for the board. We’re really pleased it’s gone to such a good home! Your generosity is very much appreciated; we’re looking forward to seeing what you get up to with it.

  4. Sergiy January 14, 2012 at 6:35 am #

    Send more photos with working device! If it’s possible, try to use Ubuntu, how it’s works.

    P.S. Why you don’t leave the comment in Ebay – for raspberry_pi?

  5. Tim January 14, 2012 at 6:39 pm #

    hey paul,

    i am working on a 3d model (in google sketchup) of the raspberry board, and i would like it to make it as accurate as possible, so people can start working on cases etc.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlossen/sets/72157628593845515/

    as you are one of the few people with access to a raspberry — could you do me big favor and take some measurements?

    i am mostly interested in the exact position and dimensions of all connectors (ethernet, usb, micro-usb …)

    thanks
    tim

  6. JBeale January 14, 2012 at 9:04 pm #

    Thanks for the photos, in particular this one http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads//2012/01/DSC_1046.jpg is really crisp and clear. Nice to see someone with both a working board, and a good camera!

  7. Ruben Varela January 14, 2012 at 11:32 pm #

    @Sergiy

    Ubuntu isn’t supported. They RaspberryPi runs a ARMv6. Ubuntu withdrew support for ARM v6. They only support ARMv7 and higher.

  8. Jakub January 16, 2012 at 8:55 pm #

    Hi,

    I look to your page pyrosoft.co.uk/blog. And you have Raspberry Pi and I do not yet . It is possible use your photo on my website – http://www.pi-raspberry.cz ?

    Thx for answer

    Jakub from Czech Rep.

  9. Paul Maunders January 17, 2012 at 8:35 pm #

    Yes, you may use my photos under the creative commons attribution license.

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