We won an award!

28th of October 2011 by liz

Well, this is unexpected, and we’re all feeling a bit overwhelmed. Raspberry Pi won the Best in Show award for Hardware Design at the ARM TechCon yesterday. Apparently, a chunk of perspex is currently being engraved, and will be making its way to us soon.

Here are a couple of pictures from the day, very kindly sent to us by Bac’an, one of our forum members. We are especially delighted by the one suggesting that Eben himself has won Best in Show, as if he was a pedigree dog. It’s not as if he has a particularly glossy pelt, although he will sit up and beg if you do the right manoeuvre with a Jaffa Cake.

Raspberry Pi stand - that's Avatar running at 1080p on the monitor above the alpha board.

Eben, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. (A bit like a well-dressed spaniel.)

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56 comments

tachyon on
October 28, 2011 at 5:55 pm said:

Congrats guys! I know you guys will use this to gain even more momentum for the cause.

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Bizzo on
October 28, 2011 at 5:55 pm said:

Hey, congratulations guys. Reckon you’ve earned it.

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ukscone on
October 28, 2011 at 6:05 pm said:

As well as the chunk of perspex (a possible murder weapon along the lines of the imfamous blunt object for the next person who calls Eben Jason)

Do you get a years supply of pedigree chum too?

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Liam Fraser on
October 28, 2011 at 6:06 pm said:

Huge congrats guys . I bet beagleboard and similar are panicking haha!

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traffikante on
October 28, 2011 at 6:13 pm said:

It’s great!

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k3ypad on
October 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm said:

Outstanding lads! Congratulations! Looking forward to the release!

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Alexandre on
October 28, 2011 at 6:52 pm said:

Congratulations! RaspBerry Pi is a great “small hardware.” kkkkk

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Zachary on
October 28, 2011 at 7:09 pm said:

AMAZING, it’s come so far since the initial thought! I’m glad to have been with it since the beginning!

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csaba2 on
October 28, 2011 at 7:12 pm said:

Not suprised:)
But gratzz;)
can’t wait relase;)

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RISC on
October 28, 2011 at 7:38 pm said:

Congrats!!!

Can’t wait to buy couple of R-Pi boards…

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Kev on
October 28, 2011 at 8:19 pm said:

You deserve it! Keep up the hard work, I can’t wait to get my hands on a few RPi’s!

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Bumsfallera on
October 28, 2011 at 8:46 pm said:

Great! =) Raspberry Pi FTW!

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Blotto on
October 28, 2011 at 9:02 pm said:

GRATZ !!!

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sonicase on
October 28, 2011 at 9:29 pm said:

congrats

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asdf on
October 28, 2011 at 9:43 pm said:

wheeeeeeeennnnnn???

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richard77 on
October 28, 2011 at 10:03 pm said:

Well deserved.
In a market of all alike products, most barely Acceptable, and very few Exceeding Expectations, your project is clearly Outstanding

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SlayingDragons on
October 28, 2011 at 10:17 pm said:

Nice. You guys definitely and without doubt deserve it.

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gbl08ma on
October 28, 2011 at 10:51 pm said:

As I said on the forum, congratulations!

Shouldn’t we submit a story about this to Slashdot?
(I know some days ago this website got featured on /. with the schematics for the 2006 $25 PC, anyways, can’t we aim for Slashdot front page again?)

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- liz on
  October 28, 2011 at 10:54 pm said:
  
  I would imagine they’re getting a bit sick of us by now – but yes, submit away if you’d like!
  
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  - gbl08ma on
    October 28, 2011 at 11:00 pm said:
    
    I don’t think my submission will get far with my “terrible” karma at Slashdot. (Whether that classification is fair or not, that’s another thing… I don’t consider myself a troll!)
    
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  - gbl08ma on
    October 28, 2011 at 11:30 pm said:
    
    Well, I changed my mind and thought it couldn’t hurt to try my first Slashdot submission (the terrible karma kind of inhibits me). You can find the submission here: http://slashdot.org/submission/1831916/25-pc-prototype-gets-award-at-arm-techcon
    
    Let’s hope I didn’t write anything wrong. And let’s vote up so I get my first accepted /. submission in favour of the RasPI project
    
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  - Jongoleur on
    October 30, 2011 at 10:33 am said:
    
    The Slashdot response so far has been a concerted whine of “why hasn’t it got x, and y”. There are many posts along the lines of Why HDMI? Why only 256Mb ram, it won’t run “z” Why no WiFi? and it isn’t “open” Binary Blob! Eeek! Broadcom!
    
    *sigh*
    
    Oh well, the more Slashdotters that don’t buy, the better, I suppose.
    
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    - Brian Smith on
      October 30, 2011 at 12:49 pm said:
      
      Reminds me of the infamous Slashdot snub on the iPod when it was first released in 2001:
      “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”
      
      a historical reminder to take the readership’s somewhat jaded options of new tech with a pinch of salt, I feel.
      
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      - liz on
        October 30, 2011 at 3:22 pm said:
        
        Funny you should mention that. I have actually bookmarked the infamous thread from Macrumours where people comment on the announcement of the iPod back in October 2001. I go and read it every now and then when people start whinging that we’re useless because they want 2GB of RAM so they can run Javascript games/websites with 500 instances of Flash/Minecraft. I find it cheering.
    - gbl08ma on
      October 30, 2011 at 7:56 pm said:
      
      If you look carefully at the innards of the reply threads at Slashdot, you’ll find there are also many people that support Raspberry Pi (or else, it’s just Liz posting as Anonymous Coward )
      
      I know the Pi isn’t made in the same scope as the beagle/pandaboard, but I’ll do another comparison: I recall seeing many people saying “256MB is not enough” or “the processor will be slow as dog” before beagleboard lanched. When it launched, its price was much higher than the one expected for the Pi, and still loads of people bought it (and keep buying).
      Now, why won’t people buy something that’s more than five times cheaper, it’s smaller and offers similar (or better) capabilities? Plus, it’s not really a prototyping board – it’s more finished than that (although you can still hack it easily).
      The RasPi sure will have its defects, like anything, but I think it’s gonna be successful [enough for a 3rd model with more RAM/CPU/USB/whatever].
      
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Andrea on
October 28, 2011 at 11:08 pm said:

Congratulations guys, you definitely earned the award!

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Mark on
October 28, 2011 at 11:12 pm said:

Congratulations to everyone who made a difference to make this happen.

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Raffy Mananghaya on
October 28, 2011 at 11:18 pm said:

Congratulations!

Of course the Puppy Linux community’s tail is wagging at your references to Eben as “bushy tailed”

Hope that you will reserve one board for Barry Kauler, our chief dev (URL: http://bkhome.org/bkauler/ ).- I will pay for it.

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- Raffy Mananghaya on
  October 29, 2011 at 12:25 am said:
  
  Addition: For developers who want to have fun with the cutting-edge Puppy Linux @ 113 MB, see here.
  
  We do love kids, puppies and fruits.
  
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  - liz on
    October 29, 2011 at 12:28 am said:
    
    You guys are right at the top of the list for the pre-production run – we’d love to see Puppy running on Raspberry Pi. (And you are also in the class of people who don’t have to pay – cue giant storm of outrage from other commenters.)
    
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    - DaVince on
      November 3, 2011 at 5:08 pm said:
      
      Honestly, I think most commenters would be more than happy to just pay the 25/35 dollars for it.
      
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Acsen on
October 29, 2011 at 3:11 am said:

CONGRATS!! can’t wait for the final product! and even though there are still rough edges in the interface speed, I still buy them today!!

I hope to see the products listed in amazon.
Cheers from Costa Rica.

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kneekoo on
October 29, 2011 at 8:50 am said:

Congratulations! Now you have an award-winning device for the masses. The problem is we’re still waiting for its release.

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s1oan on
October 29, 2011 at 8:58 am said:

Congratulations!

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Glenn De Backer on
October 29, 2011 at 12:20 pm said:

I’m really sure that if there are no ordering problems ( beagle and pandaboards are still hard to get on sites like watterot) and with its price, the rasberry pi will kick off an arduino like frenzy and that a lot of other awards will be won…

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MH on
October 29, 2011 at 2:02 pm said:

No way! Well done, lads! Well deserved.

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Ben on
October 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm said:

With all the dog comparisons, are we still able to use CAT 5 cables?

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toxibunny on
October 30, 2011 at 3:04 pm said:

congroots!

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Charlie Brej on
October 30, 2011 at 3:18 pm said:

Congratulations. A well deserved accomplishment. I saw the presentation at ARM a couple and I was flabbergasted that there are other people who not only share my views of education, but that are trying to make a change. Can’t wait to get involved.

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Sven on
October 30, 2011 at 3:32 pm said:

Congr.! Just can’t wait for the RPI to be released *-*. Does anyone know how much shipping to Germany will cost?

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- liz on
  October 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm said:
  
  Not yet. We’ll let people know as soon as we’ve settled it with our distributors.
  
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Florian on
October 30, 2011 at 4:26 pm said:

Hey ! Congratulation !!! where can i buy an Rapsberry Pi ? send me a email plss
thx

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- liz on
  October 30, 2011 at 4:27 pm said:
  
  Have a look at the FAQ at the top of the page.
  
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Davespice on
October 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm said:

Good work, congratulations!

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Neil Pacala on
October 31, 2011 at 2:34 am said:

Mabuhay Raspberry Pi!
Next up, award for philanthropy.

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Jamie on
October 31, 2011 at 5:46 am said:

The first of many deserved recognition awards I am sure. Congratulations! Being a software engineer just recently introduced to hardware tinkering via arduino, the Raspberry Pi has caught my interest and I have been eagerly awaiting news and release announcement for rpi for several months. I started my computer science journey in the 1980s with an old green-screen IBM PC clone and a VIC20. I can’t wait to introduce the rpi to *my* children now, to give them the same excitement to explore computing themselves.

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DH on
October 31, 2011 at 7:11 am said:

You guys have been talking this up for 2 years. Time to ship or get off the pot.

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- jamesh on
  October 31, 2011 at 8:39 am said:
  
  Er, announced May 2011. I make that 6 months. Still scheduled to ship Q4 2011.
  
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- liz on
  October 31, 2011 at 10:44 am said:
  
  I love that we’ve excited you enough to cause time to dilate four-fold, but we only announced the project to the public back in May, and we’ve been saying “last quarter of the year” ever since then.
  
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daniel on
October 31, 2011 at 3:48 pm said:

Was there any question you would win?

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SiR on
October 31, 2011 at 4:00 pm said:

Big congrats!

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Pirx Danford on
November 1, 2011 at 9:34 am said:

Congratulations and its well deserved!
Keep on rocking folks

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Nick Doncemperk on
November 20, 2011 at 11:29 am said:

hey , how i can buy this ?

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- liz on
  November 20, 2011 at 11:31 am said:
  
  Head over to the FAQ at the top of the page.
  
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