[ale] Where to order the Raspberry Pi?

[simontek at gmail.com]

I buy most of this type of stuff from adafruit

On , "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 10:20 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:

> > Good morning,



> > Any suggestions on where to order the Raspberry Pi?

> > Any suggested additional items?



> Newark Electronics / Element-14 is probably your best bet, since they're

> an (the) official distributor.



> Looks like they are currently out of stock.



> http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=43W5302



> It's the way it's been going. They get a batch in and get sold out in a

> heart beat. You can put in for advance ordering notice. Just click the

> "Contact me when it stock" and they'll let you know and you can call in

> an order. I did that and put two on order. I'm expecting my two in

> just over a week now.



> You can also order some up on Amazon.com but it looks like you end up

> paying a premium.



> Newark also has a number of accessories for the Pi...



> http://www.newark.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/landing/raspberry-pi/rasp-pi-accessories.jsp&ICID=HP-Raspberrypi-Accessories



> If you want an alamode board (Arduino daughter board for the Raspberry

> Pi) you'll need to order that from a different outfit. I've got one of

> those on the way as well. With that, you can use a number of Arduino

> shield boards, like relay and servo boards, with the RP.



> > Thanks!



> > Jeff



> > _______________________________________________

> > Ale mailing list

> > Ale at ale.org

> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale

> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at

> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo



> Regards,

> Mike

> --

> Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw at WittsEnd.com

> /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/

> NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all

> PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20121110/cd91b31d/attachment-0001.html>