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If there is anyone in the UK wanting to attend a meet for the R-Pi, there is a Raspberry Pi jam happening in nottingham...

http://nottinghack.org.uk/?p=1285

I know it may be too far for some to travel but for any midlanders on the boards, it would be awesome to see some TMO users there. Maybe if we could get the HDMI out working we could show it off too? :)

As for my attempts at HDMI, I will update the other thread. So far i have not had much success :(

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Got my Pi a couple of days ago - whaoo!

I was wondering what the chances were of using an old N900 screen as a display for the Pi? Would it be even feasable driving it from the Pi's HDMI port?

And then, would it be possible to use the touchscreen as well?

I've got a soldering iron... But pretty bad electronics knowledge!

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Umm, does Pi have wi-fi?

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No, but it has 2 x USB so you can use a WiFi dongle

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

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Oh ya, with what driver?

there is one out there with wi-fi for slightly more, i would want that one. VIA APC doesnt have it, that other chinese one for $74 has it, but i dont know.

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The appropriate driver for the WiFi dongle you choose?!

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My Pi's are waiting for me too (I got 2 of them, after all, lol - one from Farnel, and another one from this 2nd partner-company, forgot name).

As for N900 screen, no chances - such screen require own (proprietary, closed) "driver" hardware on board. Same apply for all notebooks (some were reverse-engineered, but it's rather about old, big models).

/Estel

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Cool - thanks for the info... I'll put my soldering iron away for now :)

I thought it was a long shot...

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Model B now ships with 512MB of RAM!!!!

Quoted from the R-Pi boards

Posted on October 15, 2012 by eben

One of the most common suggestions we’ve heard since launch is that we should produce a more expensive “Model C” version of Raspberry Pi with extra RAM. This would be useful for people who want to use the Pi as a general-purpose computer, with multiple large applications running concurrently, and would enable some interesting embedded use cases (particularly using Java) which are slightly too heavyweight to fit comfortably in 256MB.

The downside of this suggestion for us is that we’re very attached to $35 as our highest price point. With this in mind, we’re pleased to announce that from today all Model B Raspberry Pis will ship with 512MB of RAM as standard. If you have an outstanding order with either distributor, you will receive the upgraded device in place of the 256MB version you ordered. Units should start arriving in customers’ hands today, and we will be making a firmware upgrade available in the next couple of days to enable access to the additional memory.

I’d like to thank our partners, RS Components and element14/Premier Farnell, and the suppliers, particularly Samsung, Sony and Broadcom, for all their help in delivering a smooth transition to the 512MB. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all get up to with your shiny new Pis.

I will have to get myself another one :)

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I'll wait it became w/ one extra GB :-)

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