Where is model A if I want to buy one?

The question isn't where, it's when.  And the answer as far as I know is "not yet"

JMO/YMMV: My guess is that with Model B still selling out, the RasPi Foundation and distributors don't see any reason to complicate their lives by managing inventory for two products.  It's risky having two different builds, because if the more popular one sells out you're stuck with unsold inventory of the other one.  OTOH, if someone wants to buy and resell thousands of Model As, the picture could change.

Out of curiosity, any particular reason you want a Model A?

The question isn't where, it's when.  And the answer as far as I know is "not yet"

JMO/YMMV: My guess is that with Model B still selling out, the RasPi Foundation and distributors don't see any reason to complicate their lives by managing inventory for two products.  It's risky having two different builds, because if the more popular one sells out you're stuck with unsold inventory of the other one.  OTOH, if someone wants to buy and resell thousands of Model As, the picture could change.

Out of curiosity, any particular reason you want a Model A?

Just to say I have one!

+ for a robot that I am building that has limited power supply.

Hello Fergus,

If you are building a power constrained robot controller why on earth would you use any kind of RPi ?

The RPi has very limited IO and is, by design, pretty much obliged to run Linux (because of the secret hardware). You could make a much more power efficient robot controller based on (for example) the STM32F4 Discovery board, (< £10 and an ARM M4 with 168Mips that belong all to you not the OS !, plenty of IO etc).

Michael Kellett

This is not any kind of Space worthy robot.

It will just be a little car that can be controlled through GPIO.  It was just a side project that I thought would be interesting to build.

From little Acorns....

In an engineering sense, the Pi is a poor choice for a mobile robot.  A moving application does not have any need for an HDMI display with high powered media abilities, which is the only area in which Pi shines.  A moving application also benefits from low power consumption, whereas the Pi has high consumption compared to many other ARM boards because of its high-power media and graphic functions.  There is also limited I/O on the board, whereas a mobile robot can clearly put ample I/O to very good use.

I would have chosen a different Linux board for a mobile robotic application, perhaps something like Olimex's iMX233-OLinuXino-MICRO which at 23.95 euro is certainly price-competitive with Pi.  Its 64 meg of RAM is ample for a robotic application since the memory-hungry X11 is not required, and it has much more I/O capability and will run longer in a battery-powered rover.

Will it have an eyestalk?

Eg

http://www.projectdalek.co.uk/files/autopsy/eye.html

I ordered two Model A's from the E14 website but I recieved an email from one of the support team that they are not shipping the product and I should order a Model B instead.

1.  The number of Stock on the AU website has gone down from 950+ to about 200.  this means that other people have ordered it two.

2. I sent him back an email which I said to do not change the order and leave it has it is and I will wait till that order is recieved (which I guess would be in the next two weeks since the raspberrypi.org said that it would open sales to internationl customers 'soon'.

I have not got a reply yet... but I am waiting to see what happens.