CBC News and the Raspberry Pi

[Colin McGregor]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> If they were to make ATX/mATX/ITX form factor, would the price be
> different?  I mean, this is for educational and development purpose,
> so putting it in an old computer case (motherboard replacement)
> would be okay, no?

If they made the machine in an ATX/mATX/ITX form factor the price
would have to be different (higher). Bottom line as a printed circuit
board gets bigger it gets more expensive. Further on several levels I
don't see how this gets you anywhere, the power connector on a normal
ATX power supply isn't compatible with the Raspberry Pi, ditto video
connectors, etc...

If I were proceeding with this RIGHT NOW my first choice would be to
build a custom case from scratch. My second choice would be to get the
likes of a 3.5" external hard drive case and  adapt that (frill holes
in the front of the case, run short jumper cables to the Raspberry Pi,
and solder in a short adapter to the power connector).

Colin

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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>> Cc:
>> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:33:01 PM
>> Subject: [TLUG]: CBC News and the Raspberry Pi
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>>T he CBC has a story about the Raspberry Pi :
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/03/01/technology-raspberry-pi-launch.html
>> . Seems the first batch of 10,000 machines sold out in under 2.5
>> hours...
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>> I want one...
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>>
>> Colin
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