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Have I lost the plot on all of what Rasp pi is supposed to be about?

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Am I having a nightmare?

 

Why is anyone going on about compliance - please grow up guys - work it out yourselves - if you can't then either don't buy or revisit your own knowledge or how you use things for teaching or whatever!

 

If you still can't manage that then you haven't got it at all.

 

I am worried that a seriously good move is going to be hijacked by this sort of rubbish.

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  • Sw, I'm not quite sure what you mean, but everyone is going on about compliance at the moment because Farnell and RS have decided that these can't really be classed as development boards (and thus avoid compliance certification) when there are (probably) hundreds of thousands of orders and one of the stated aims is to get them into schools to teach programming - not the domain of a development board.

     

    Also this is a worldwide device and I think it is fairly safe to say that places like the US are fairly litigious in nature. If for any reason, and I mean any reason, this board caused a problem with any other electronic device and it hadn't got the relevant certification, I'm sure someone, somewhere would try and sue for something.

     

    I am fairly sure that at school (a long time ago) we used to do things that were distinctly not compliant with any form of health and safety (making Chlorine gas in Chemistry springs to mind) but things are a lot different know.

    If it was possible, I would happily sign an indemnity to get my hands on a Pi now, but things just don't work like that.

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  • Sw, I'm not quite sure what you mean, but everyone is going on about compliance at the moment because Farnell and RS have decided that these can't really be classed as development boards (and thus avoid compliance certification) when there are (probably) hundreds of thousands of orders and one of the stated aims is to get them into schools to teach programming - not the domain of a development board.

     

    Also this is a worldwide device and I think it is fairly safe to say that places like the US are fairly litigious in nature. If for any reason, and I mean any reason, this board caused a problem with any other electronic device and it hadn't got the relevant certification, I'm sure someone, somewhere would try and sue for something.

     

    I am fairly sure that at school (a long time ago) we used to do things that were distinctly not compliant with any form of health and safety (making Chlorine gas in Chemistry springs to mind) but things are a lot different know.

    If it was possible, I would happily sign an indemnity to get my hands on a Pi now, but things just don't work like that.

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