Why the Raspberry Pi Won't Ship In Kit Form 240
An anonymous reader writes "A post at the Raspberry Pi blog shows an image containing the device's SoC and memory chip to help explain why the tiny PC won't ship in kit form. Clearly, the chips are so small, and the solder blobs required so tiny, that most people would mess up doing it by hand. Add to that the fact one chip has to sit on top of the other, and if you're a millimeter out, your chips are fried."
The post also addresses the use of closed source libraries for graphics acceleration.
Just an idea... (Score:5, Funny)
How about we stop posting a Raspberry Pi story every goddamn blog post and save the talk for oh... I don't know... when the god damn thing actually ships?
I've been throwing my money at the screen for months and NOTHING'S HAPPENING!!!
"Most people" would mess this up? (Score:5, Funny)
Should read EVERYONE without the nimble fingers of a child, the steady hand of a special forces sniper, and the sharpest soldering iron this side of the sun.
Re:Just an idea... (Score:5, Funny)
Fix this, MacGyver! (Score:5, Funny)
And to think that only 30 years ago a resourceful fellow could fix a circuit board with a silver dollar, pliers, and a car battery. With today's electronics, MacGyver would be dead.
Re:Just an idea... (Score:5, Funny)
haven't seen a bitcoin story in a while
Re:Assumptions (Score:2, Funny)
They might as well include one of these in the deal too, for people who like to do pointless and unnecessary things:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterme/3428170/ [flickr.com]
Re:Worthless as a media streaming device (Score:4, Funny)
HTPCs mess with the signal in all kinds of ways (YUV->RGB conversion is forced, even if you select YUV, it converts to RGB then converts back)
RGB to YUV is lossless in both directions.
But you lose the overtones.
Re:DIY kit (Score:5, Funny)
It's a kit kit. Brilliant!