30 Jun
2012
30 Jun
'12
2:29 p.m.
In the UK RS will sell you all the bits needed, and when you order it lists
a few but I can't remember if it included everything. I ordered an SD Card
with OS installed. I can't remember if I was offered the USB keyboard but I
did order the 4gb card with OS installed.
Dave Wade G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 30 June 2012 19:33
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi and America,
Therefore today I bought a new USB keyboard, and
an optical
mouse for
good measure. Cost me a total of =A37.50
(<=8010) from the local
supermarket. I'm powering the Pi from the USB media port on the TV
I'll bet that keyboard is unpleasant to use :-)....
However, given that you can get the bits farily cheaply (all
apart form
the monitor [1]), I feel that there should be a marketed
'complete' Rpi,
conssiing of the board, keyboard, mouse, psu, OS (on SD card),
cables,etc. Of course it woudl cost more, but you wouldn't
ahve to get
anything else to use it with a noraml TV or monitor.
[1] I was amazed top find a local pound shop were selling
mains charagers
for the Ipod. They were wall-wart things with a USB ouptu
socket, marked
5V, 1000mA (!). Intrigued I bought one and took it apart
(screws under
the lable, yes, it can be opened for repair
non-destructively). It's a
small SMPSU, all discrte components on an SRBP PCB. Given
that I can't
even get the chopper transsitor for htat...
that it is using as a display! I can't
remember where the micro-usb
cable came from, but the HDMI cable was a poundshop jobbie
some time
back. None of it is going to break the bank and I
think
that allowing
use of such commodity items is a Good Thing -
even if people don't
So do I. I would not for a moment suggest that they should
have used a
custom keybaord. And I can see why you might want just hte
bare board --
for embedded use, as a replacemetn, etc. I jsut htink there
should _also_
be a package deal with all the bits you need included.
-tony