Raspberry Pi ‘Ready for Delivery’

April 10, 2012, 5:58 AM GMT

By Nick Clayton

The first production models of the Raspberry Pi $35 computer should be in the hands of customers by next week. It is a process that has taken six years from inception and has been slowed by minor glitches setting back distribution of this initial batch.

To begin with the wrong sort of Ethernet jacks were fitted. Then, as we reported, the Cambridge, U.K. based Raspberry Pi Foundation discovered that it was necessary for the devices to receive Conformité Européenne (CE) certification.

It had been thought that, because the device is essentially a motherboard the size of a deck of cards, it would not need a certificate as it did not seem to be a finished product. Government officials did not share this view ...

Distributors began to accept orders for the $35 Raspberry Pi Model B at the end of February. (The lower-specified $25 Model A is not yet in production.) It has now passed FCC compliance testing in the U.S.A. and the equivalent for Canada and Australia ...

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