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Dealing with PJRC, by contrast, has been basically frictionless :-)

Lovely fella too when I bumped into him at BAMF.

The main touchy-feely moment for me here is that a notoriously closed, $17-billion company was brought around by a friendly, gentle approach to convincing it to be more open. Group hug for Broadcom.

A kid being able to save for and buy a computer that is all their own is a good experience for getting them enthused about learning with it.

The board is just a tool though. The real strength will be in creating a common experience and specific learning systems that teachers can use, share and improve and have a frame of reference that could work worldwide.

Some teachers are able to create a syllabus and teaching around programming already, but I'd say they're in the minority.

The education stuff will hit in September when the new term starts.

Right now everyone is in the process of creating materials to teach, getting the units out there and making sure teachers have the knowledge they need to get started.

Raspbian has made the browsing experience much better, but for a lot of teaching activities, making JS heavy sites work is not key.

We're always open to ideas and a chat :) Mail us at sales [at] pi mo ro ni .com.

And thanks :-)

Entirely depends on how well we do with this one. We hope to release something more, um, tasteful in the future. We started with the loud/retro/child-magnet case to start with to make a bit of a splash and make a statement about doing things a bit differently. And because we could :)

Making 4000 units a day and still not meeting demand is a nice problem to have, frustrating as it is for a lot of people.

There are gaps in there for airflow around the ports and through the case over the chip and power. We've run it for 24 hours and it the result was it got warm on the bottom, so we've added bottom vents to the design which exhaust around the SD Card. We're happy the Pi won't choke.

Orders up to 1000: within 3 weeks. Above that: As fast as we can make and ship 'em, we're happy we can ramp up to hundreds a week fairly quickly.

Oops. Must use 'enclosure' more often. The "what do I do with it?" Is a common question. We're working on making the answer easy for everyone :)

Coda has been getting long in the tooth for a while (and is still my daily web-dev buddy).

It's nice to see Panic coming out all guns blazing with the new hotness. Software I actively enjoy paying for.

The pun in the iPad version name is a nice touch and an emblem of the way Panic rolls :-)

Even accounting for VAT@20% this is still a £9 price increase over the US price. It's not that hard to put the 'u' back in color.