Computer which costs $25!

[koola2]

Does not seem to be any pre-order on the site, have i missed it or did it require as special link?

[Detector]

if anyone wants one of these im willing to order one for them, i was going to post a link but the links are trackable.
ps: ill only get 1 per person

[beansontoast]

if anyone wants one of these im willing to order one for them, i was going to post a link but the links are trackable.
ps: ill only get 1 per person

I'd like one please Det. It would be out of curiosity more than anything else though. Let me know what's what

[Detector]

@beansontoast pm sent pal

[evilsatan]

I'll take one if you have access det. I signed up but no email yet.

[Detector]

pm sent dude

[evilsatan]

Cheers det, 58 day lead time but I can wait. Order placed.

[Detector]

no worries stan anytime

[Over Carl]

I have to eat my words from what I said at the beginning of this thread - this thing does seem interesting indeed!

Unfortunately I'm no good at writing s/w though so I think I'll wait and see what comes out but I'm sure I'll end up with some of these - already I'm thinking it would be nice to plug one up to every telly in the house just for the net.

[beansontoast]

Brilliant - thanks very much Det I've ordered one, will be interesting to have a look.

Incidentally I wonder exactly how many will actually reach school kids? They will be snapped up by curious 20-40 year olds

[SiE]

We are having trouble sourcing a class set =(

[Detector]

anyone wanting one for kids or class send me a pm

@beans np m8

[tronads]

Being a school governor, it's the educational side of things that particularly interests me about these things...I have spoken with teachers about my concerns about how GCSE subjects in "IT" only seem to be teaching children how to use Excel and other off the shelf packages..... there is little programming whatsoever anymore. These could be just the ticket.
I have one of these on pre-order at CPC (A Farnell subsiduary), I will be taking a look at it with great interest when I eventualy get hold of it, though I don't know anything about Python, I was under the impression that given its Linux platform, pretty much any language will be available for the device.

[Goldberg]

Does not seem to be any pre-order on the site, have i missed it or did it require as special link?

You have to register your interest and then they email you a link to pre-order.

[Detector]

@sie pm sent m8

[Geko]

I will be getting a few of these, eventually. But I think I'll wait for the mass hysteria to die down. Most of the people who buy these thinking they're the bollocks aren't going to know what to do with them. The other side of this is.... how are these devices going to help programming skills improve in our youth? The skills need to be taught.

[mysterym]

I will be getting a few of these, eventually. But I think I'll wait for the mass hysteria to die down. Most of the people who buy these thinking they're the bollocks aren't going to know what to do with them. The other side of this is.... how are these devices going to help programming skills improve in our youth? The skills need to be taught.

Thats what the Internet and books are for. Kids with an interest will pick these up. I can remember using a spectrum hex loader to code spectrum machine code as a youngster - the development tools available now are a huge step up.

[fanni]

There some nice little cases being designed for these now

[casio]

Thats what the Internet and books are for. Kids with an interest will pick these up. I can remember using a spectrum hex loader to code spectrum machine code as a youngster - the development tools available now are a huge step up.

Could'nt agree more the books though don't seem to have moved on since I learned how to program basic on my green screen amstrad cpc464, that said I would have loved something like this when I was at school but the teacher we had was also the french teacher and he kicked me out of the class for reading some of the files that were sat there in shared folders on the schools wide open network,

If the schools were to get some of these for class they could ask the parents to pay £20-25 for one of these that will be theirs, so the kids can take it into school and work on it then take it home and carry on, and if they dont want to pay for one then the kid still gets access to one at school.

I dont know where I read it (could have been this thread lol) but from what I understand you can program in python for it which while im not brilliant at I can just about hold my own. So teaching kids how to write their own plugins for xbmc (im sure they are/were done in python) I know I would've been more into that than making lego traffic lights come on and go off.

[Geko]

You must know some different kids to the ones I know. Learn for themselves you say. Read a book, you say. I don't know these youngsters.