Raspberry Pi Stock

Hi frednginger,

I'm not aware of any specific timeframe, but we are working very closely with Raspberry Pi to ensure we can meet the demand as soon as possible. If you haven’t been able to pre-order, register your interest so we can let you know as soon as you can order again and keep you updated with the latest on availability. 

In the meantime, we hope that you find element14 Community a fun place to hangout and talk about Raspberry Pi with your fellow enthusiasts!

Thanks!

Nicole, element14 Community Manager

Hi frednginger,

I'm not aware of any specific timeframe, but we are working very closely with Raspberry Pi to ensure we can meet the demand as soon as possible. If you haven’t been able to pre-order, register your interest so we can let you know as soon as you can order again and keep you updated with the latest on availability. 

In the meantime, we hope that you find element14 Community a fun place to hangout and talk about Raspberry Pi with your fellow enthusiasts!

Thanks!

Nicole, element14 Community Manager

Hi Nicole,

I am one of the many who failed to place an order on the first morning but have followed this group in the hope of learning something. Please note the following:-

From Thomas Finch (to which you replied)  He says "When will stocks return to RS Components ............"  Can you tell me when RS Components ever had supplies?

So 12yr old Luke has got a Raspberry Pi  and  "has  have already coded boot mnager and windows into it its so fun! "  and you allow this on the discussion board!!!

Is this for real?

hi nicole can you tell me why farnell changed there delivery date.as my delivery date was 26 march and now it 24 april. i order my ras pi at 8am on the 29 as it took me 2 hour to get in to order the morning of the launce date.

@nlarson I hate to burst your bubble but 90,000+ other people and I already registered our interest with raspberrypi.org.  I personally have no clue as to why they did not share their E-Mail list with you in the first place.  There are a few Rumours going around that those who ordered(pre-ordered) may have ordered more than 1 each.  I would suggest that you should only take pre-orders of one each to see what the actual demand is.  Maybe a small questionare of how many people would like in the future and any suggestions.

I registered an interest on the raspberry pi website. As there was no check boxes saying they could share this information with other companies, I am glad they did not give this list to farnell or RS. If they did they may well have been in breach of data protection legislation.

Hi "oldtimer"  sorry you weren't able to get a Raspberry Pi the other day - I'm sure that's dissapointing, but I hope you're able to get in on the next round when they become available again!   If Luke has a Pi - he was very lucky to get one before most people.  Perhaps he has a prototype?  Luke, would you chime in to let us know where you got your Raspberry Pi, please? 

Regarding if RS Components ever had supplies - I can't confirm as I don't work for RS - sorry about that.  I wish I knew the answer!

Hi mouseyb - sorry you spent 2 hours trying to order your Raspberry Pi this week - I know that can be really frustrating.    I'm not sure why your delivery date changed - I'll touch base with our team here and see if I can find out what happened.  - Nicole

here here on the raspberry pi mailing list. I was registered too.. so we shoudl be first in line having supported the community thus far.

That never was going to be the case. The mailing list was a device to mail people when there was news. Admitedly it failed but it never was supposed to be a queuing system and the foundation consistently refused to take pre-orders.

I understand that therre has been huge demand for the Pi but, along with many others, I expressed interest through Pi's own site last year and feel quite let down - it's as if we've been brushed aside by the tide of media hype. Petulent I know but I'm just being honest. Having got that off my chest, I appreciate it isn't the fault of Element14.

The main reason I have followed the progress of the Raspberry Pi for all this time is that I could see the potential as a teaching tool. I teach computing to 16-19 year olds (technical support and developers) and wanted to purchase class sets for my students to use. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I understood that teaching in schools and colleges was one of the main reasons for developing them? It appears that most of the stocks have been sold in a media stampede in single units. So what about schools and colleges? Is there a separate arena for those of us in education to buy Pis for teaching? With the government push for young people to develop skills such as programming and app development, I would have thought that some priority would have been given to education.

Are you sure you have been following this?

This first release is aimed at geeks and nerds. The Pi has no casing, there is little or no documentation and even the people producing the operating systems are just about one page ahead of the rest of us.

The idea is that developers will have a really good thrash at working out what the Pi can do, producing, documentation, guides, etc, so that later in the year a proper education release can be made.

i know the Pi site is down at the moment but when it is back have a look on the forum at the education section.