Electronics Prototyping Plate Kit Board For Raspberry Pi Coming Soon

An anonymous reader writes "Outside of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it seems work is being done to support the tiny PC with add-ons. One of the companies set to launch such a product is Adafruit, which has just announced an electronics plate kit for the device. The kit is currently in the prototype stages, but once released Adafruit is hoping to encourage people to use the board to prototype electronic circuits and create some embedded computer projects. It's certainly an idea that will excite those coming to the Raspberry Pi who have experience with Arduino."

And still no mounting holes

[niftydude]

It's a pretty annoying oversight that the rpi board doesn't have any holes for mounting screws, so you'd hope that an add-on plate like this might correct that oversight.

But nope.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, why the hell is there so much shit on /. about the Rasberry Pi? It's like this is their personal advertisement space already.

Re:Slashvertisement at its best

[Anonymous Coward]

So you enjoy paying hundreds of dollars to big corporations for every little gadget you want, padding their profit margins and encouraging the slave farms in third world countries where they manufacture them? RPi is a symbol that this shit isn't rocket science and within the ability of many people to do things for themselves for about the cost of you and someone else having a meal and drinks at Buffalo Wild Wings. You don't think that's worthy of discussion?

Re:Slashvertisement at its best

[CrankyFool]

You know that the RPi is also manufactured in a third world country, likely in what looks like the other "slave farms" which manufacture electronics, right? They abandoned plans to produce it in the UK.

Re:Raspberry Pi is mainly a campaign...

[psergiu]

> A more realistic way of teaching kids to program is to use Scratch, Python or (insert language of choice) on a regular desktop or a tablet - sandboxing it as a web app or a virtual machine if you worry about kids "breaking" things.

99% of the parents owning a PC would not be able to do this for their kid. Even if they did, there's nothing preventing the kid to delete daddy's documents or install a trojan from some flash games site.
A RPi is bulled-proof. The kid messed up ? Reflash the SD card using a card reader and a one-click application (which is being developed by the people on the RPi forums).