I am pretty sure that once the PI gets into full production of this device an educational establishment will be able to get these in bulk, its just a matter of time. With IT being reformed in British Schools we are also going to see a fantastic opportunity for the Pi to become part of the education system. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jade-lane/it-education-gove-reforms-better-late-than-never_b_1212595.html[^] How many kids leaving school even know what a AND gate is, let alone how to make one with a bunch of components ?

I have a delivery date for the w/c 14/05/2012 which seems like ages away. It's a fantastic piece of hardware which is going to be used in a variety of ways, for experimenting with will be its main use or a silent HTPC / XBMC, or just a very cool internet machine connected to the telly. The hardware is great and its a fantastic price, I will probably end up with 2 or 3 of these devices around the house when they become more easily available. What else can you possibly get for anywhere near the price of £25? The idea of getting these devices into schools is simply fantastic, getting children involved in actually programming rather than using windows and word is going to be a huge leap forward and should secure the future for many more programmers in the years to come. Being able to spend £25 (plus keyboard/monitor or TV/mouse) for a fully functional machine that you can give to a child at home to experiment with is going to open their eyes to the world outside of windows and hopefully get them away from those mind numbing consoles. Gone are the days of using the 6502 with a hex keypad to program something :( Oh and releasing these with no case is also a great idea, its a great school project for the the design classes to design and fabricate a case for them.

Big congrats :) Member 3689500 here and I am Guilty as charged :sigh: Yes I am one of the many many members that are not active, But I have been here for a while, actively read many of the posts, receive and read the newsletters daily and enjoy the site and have done for a few years. I am not a developer so often the discussions and code are beyond me but I do a little bit in C# and always find something useful and interesting, sometime even amusing :omg: Many thanks to all those members that do contribute (unlike me) :-O

Oh dear, I had the unfortunate pleasure of lisening to some of your US radio stations last year whilst driving around florida, cant remember the names as there were so many playing random rock i kept changing channels :-\ You should be able to get BBC Radio 1 from the UK on a time shift which plays a random mix of music with some great shows (depending on time of day), you probably wont understand most of the humor but hey it could be worth a listen ;)

Oops...I suspect I have a rotator cuff tear which I have been slowly nursing for some months now, I dont get much pain for normal activities but movement is restricted and it hurts like hell trying to get those bloomin tickets in and out of the car park machines when driving :( I dont like the sounds of the surgery or recovery process either. I broke my right wrist a couple of years back and (I am also right handed) then started a new contract job a week later, the face on my new employer was pretty good when I walked in on day 1 as I was all fine the week before at the interview. I actually managed and adapted pretty quickly to the laft handed approach, I never type long documents anyway so the one handed typing was ok. The most dificault part was remembering to wipe from front to back and not the other way around which did happen on the odd occasion to begin with :~

I would also vote for "The Art of Electronics" great book, I originally started out studying electronics and then some how fell into more computer related programming/scripting/application packaging and support based work. The book is one of the few books that still has pride of place on the shelf and it ocassionally gets thumbed through even 15+ years after its purchase (OMG!!! I hadnt realised how old it was... :) )