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UncategorizedWe expect to have the Raspberry Pi Model A in stock here in Australia for express delivery to your door on Monday the 15th of April. The Model A Raspberry Pi is a stripped-down version of the Model B Raspberry Pi, with no Ethernet, one USB port and 256MB RAM. The trade-off for removing certain features results in the Model A Raspberry Pi being $10 cheaper than the Model B in addition to using only one third the power. The Model A still has full 1080p hardware decoding, and we will be providing packages with powered USB hubs. This means it is perfect for home media center applications, and the s low power consumption makes it ideal for projects running from a battery or solar power - robots, sensor platforms in remote locations etc. Please note we also have plenty of stock of Raspberry Pi Model B's and are shipping them within 24 hours of any order.
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UncategorizedThere has been a change to the memory chip on the Raspberry Pi board, you must use the latest version of Raspbian, or it will not boot. From RaspberryPi.org: If your 512MB Pi has a Hynix memory chip in the middle of the board (that’s the black, square RAM chip right in the centre, and it’ll either say Samsung or Hynix on it in white letters), please ensure you are using the latest version of Raspbian, which you can get from the downloads link at the top of the page. The version on that page will always be the latest available. It seems a lot of the people who have been caught out by this are folk who have bought a pre-flashed card from someone on eBay or Amazon. We always recommend against this, because the images on those grey-market cards are often months out of date – and a lot of work is done on the software every week, so a months-old operating system
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UncategorizedJeremy Morgan has published a fantastic guide for setting up your Raspberry Pi as a network file server. His full post can be seen here: http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-file-server/
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UncategorizedHow to set up Wireless on a Raspberry Pi Raspbian Wheezy and Debian Wheezy Option 1: The Hard way (that doesn't require any external packages) Plug in your AusPi Technologies 802.11b/g/n Raspberry Pi Wireless adaptor Plug in a USB keyboard Boot up your Raspberry Pi Log into Wheezy using the credentials: Username: pi Password: raspberry Check the wireless adaptor by running: sudo iwconfig Check that your wireless adaptor has been assigned 'wlan0' (if it isn't just change all references below to 'wlan0' to the correct interface) Scan for your wireless network by running: sudo iwlist wlan0 scan Check and note the following: ESSID: the "name" of the access point. Quality: in general try something above 40/70. Encryption key: if it is "on", check if you can see any line regarding WEP, WPA, or RSN. Note that RSN and WPA2 are different names for the protocol. Group cipher: value in TKIP, CCMP, both, others. Pairwise ciphers: value in TKIP, CCMP, both, others. Not necessarily the same value than Group cipher. Authentication Suites: value in PSK, 802.1x, others. For home router, you'll usually
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UncategorizedThe Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer that operates from a standard USB power supply, and all solid-state hardware. We have long believed this is a perfect platform for a Car Computer; but to date, have seen very little people rise to the challenge of installing it into their car. While we would question the safety of watching 1080p films while driving, it seems to us to be not only a perfect platform for your music & movies but a fully functional linux computer for a passenger seat war-driver computer user. Finally, GroundrunnerGSClub, has published his installation of the Raspberry Pi in the Car. Check out his youtube video, showing it fully installed, operational and looks very professional.
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UncategorizedEverything except FLIRC's, which are about a day away, is in stock. We found another 50 Pi's, so we should be in stock for a couple of days.
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UncategorizedRemapping Brilliance (the company that operates buyraspberrypi.com.au) is in business to find the most innovative, useful and ground-changing products in the world and make them available to the Australian marketplace. I think all our readers would agree that the Raspberry Pi fits this description. Now, let us introduce the FLIRC. The FLIRC is a programmable USB Infra-red receiver that allows you to use a standard remote control with any software on your PC, by converting your button presses into keyboard input. It requires no software (except to program it) and your PC/Raspberry Pi/Android Media Center/Apple Computer just thinks it is a wired USB keyboard. FLIRC for your Pi The Raspberry Pi allows you to control XBMC using your normal TV remote control via HDMI-CEC. So you may be wondering why we are so excited to add the FLIRC to our Raspberry Pi accessories range. The answer is this: HDMI-CEC will only take you so far. Most TV remote controls work with play, pause, fast forward and rewind. But getting to the
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Raspberry Pis We have 50 left. Our order of new Pis has not yet been shipped, so we will probably run out before the end of the weekend. 4-Port USB 3.0 Hubs Have been released from Customs (after a 7 day wait) and should be delivered Monday. This means we will be shipping the orders with them out on Tuesday. FLIRC infra red receiver for your Pi Big news! We are the official Australian distributor or FLIRC IR receivers. Our first shipment of FLIRCs have been picked up by DHL in America and are on their way here. These might go quick, so pre-order if you want to secure yours. We should be shipping these out late next week.
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Raspberry Pi's Are in stock and ready to go. Our next shipment hasn't been sent yet, so there's a good chance we will run out early next week. Raspberry Pi Power Supplies Have arrived. We now have plenty of stock. Wireless Keyboard+Trackerpad combo Are in stock and ready to go. 4-Port Powered USB 3.0 Hubs Are still sitting where they were on Tuesday, with Customs at Brisbane waiting for release.
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UncategorizedIf you've been following the Pis for some time, you will notice that they have been made in both China, and the UK. In Australia, we've had our fair share from both factories. In the future, all Pis in Australia will be coming from the Sony factory in the UK. The Chinese factories will be making only 'red' Raspberry Pis for Asian markets. Liz also has published a high-quality video showing the production of Raspberry Pis in the UK, so if you've like to see more about how they are made, it's here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3462 If anyone is interested, the global supply of Raspberry Pi's is currently 22,000 per week. This will increase soon to 30,000 per week.
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Raspberry Pis We now have plenty of Raspberry Pi's in stock, and enough pre-ordered with our supplier that we should be able to keep up with demand for the rest of this month. Anything that says it is 'in stock' on the web store is in stock, and will be posted to you within 24 hours of ordering. USB 3.0 HUBs We have a shipment of USB 3.0 hubs currently sitting in Brisbane customs, awaiting their approval. DHL is amazing, when customs don't get in the way we often have packages that are in the factory in China on Friday, delivered to our warehouse on the Sunshine coast Tuesday. (I know some domestic 'express' couriers who struggle to provide that sort of service from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast.) However, Brisbane Customs have a 3 day turnaround agreement, and our last few shipments have been held for much longer than that. We've been waiting for clearance for 2 days now, so we hope to
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As we expected, this week's shipment of Pi's was 100% pre-sold. We are being told by our suppliers that our request for more stock is not likely to be filled for "up to two weeks". We were hoping for another shipment later this week, but at this stage it looks like it will either be delayed, or only a part-shipment. Either pre-order now to secure your allocation as soon as they come in, or check back on the site regularly and we'll post an update as soon as we know more. We've checked alternative suppliers - this is an Australia wide stock shortage.
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UncategorizedBusiness Weekly Reports: The Raspberry Pi Foundation has rented 700 sq meters of office space in Cambridge UK, employed four staff, and brought on a new production partner in China/Taiwan to boost sales in the Asia region. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity that has developed an affordable, credit card sized computer for children all over the world on which to learn programming (ie. the Raspberry Pi). The concept came about when colleagues at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory became concerned about the declining numbers and skill levels of students applying to read computer science. (AusPi Technologies is in no way affiliated with the Raspberry Pi Foundation.)
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UncategorizedAusPi TV is based on OpenELEC Prior to January 2013, we had to conduct extensive testing on the nightly releases of OpenELEC to find a version that was stable, reliable and played the most videos possible. Now that XBMC and OpenELEC have been formally released for the Raspberry Pi, we are confident that the latest version of OpenELEC is the one you want. There is now value in all AusPi TV customers upgrading to the latest version of OpenELEC, and our testing has revealed it will give you the following benefits: More stable environment, with far less crashes, and video rendering issues. Ability to play DVD's from .iso files, including DVD's with menus (note that OpenELEC still say this is 'experimental' but our testing has been nothing but positive.) (also note that you need the mpeg2 license.) How to Upgrade AusPi TV to the latest release Download the latest version of OpenELEC for the Raspberry Pi here extract it using winrar , or if you are running linux, gunzip and un'tar
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There is currently an Australia-wide shortage of Raspberry Pi's. I've just got off the phone from our suppliers (who, like us have been out of stock for a couple of weeks) and they have more orders than Pi's. Furthermore, it looks like this is going to be the case for the next few weeks. We've Been Rationed! A shipment of 50 Raspberry Pis has been sent to us from Sydney and will be here late Friday, for express shipping on Monday morning. We're hoping for a further 50 to be sent later this week which will be able to be shipped on Tuesday. The rest of our order is supposed to be fulfilled next week, likely for shipping on Friday the 8th of March. We have pre-sold more than half of the Monday shipment, so if you want a Pi next week, you'll need to be quick! We will update the website when we've pre-sold all of next week's allocation.
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What's the good of a Pi shop that's got no Pi's? We've ordered more, but there is a temporary shortage in Australia. The next shipment is still making it's way down here and should hit our shelves on Friday. You can pre-order now, and we'll ship them to you using express post as soon as we get them. - - Edit: The Pi's that we got on March 1st are all gone.
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You may have noticed that up until now we have used PayPal hosted shopping cart buttons for our products. Due to a problem with the way that it calculates free shipping (ie. it wouldn't do it the way we wanted); we've re-enabled the in-built shopping cart software on this site and now offer all components as individual items rather than just as starter kits. Over the coming month we will be expanding our range to include all sorts of accessories for your Raspberry Pi, so be sure to check back here if you need something. We also welcome suggestions, if there's something you'd like to get your hands on, use the contact us button at the bottom of this page and we will look to adding it to our stock. If you have any problems with this shopping cart software, please let us know. We still offer free shipping for all orders over $100, and ship selected items for free, worldwide.
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UncategorizedLooking for a less serious use for your Pi? Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things. Now, there is a free edition of minecraft, that runs on a raspberry Pi! To get your hands on it, first grab a Raspberry Pi running Debian Wheezy (available from our online store, or here). Then, on your raspberry Pi, go to http://pi.minecraft.net/, and follow the instructions on that page to install Minecraft. Finally, enjoy spending countless hours breaking and placing blocks, or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean :)
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UncategorizedNow that XBMC v12 (Frodo) has been released, the most popular distribution of XBMC of the Raspberry Pi, Raspbmc, has released a final version of the distribution. Final in no way means that work has stopped, the distribution has just exited its beta testing and is now stable and ready for mainstream use. We have had an opportunity to install and test it and have to say - it's fantastic. You can get your hands on a copy of raspbmc at their website, or pre-loaded on a 4GB or 8GB SDHC card in our shop. More information is available at: http://www.raspbmc.com/
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UncategorizedOpenELEC have released version RC 3 for the Raspberry Pi. This includes XBMC Frodo (final) and thus fixes lots of problems with plug-ins that were caused by running the pre-release version of XBMC. Anybody running a previous version of OpenELEC can upgrade to RC3 by following the instructions here. The AusPi TV and OpenELEC images that we use for our pre-installed SD Cards have been updated to OpenELEC RC3.
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