Hello everyone, As you know, from either using them already or hearing about them in the past days, the Raspberry Pis are a handy prototyping tool, that is used a lot at XPUB. We plan to have a few RPis available for workshops, or for running particular projects, such as local XPUB server sandboxes (more about it soon), XPPL, EtherBox, Bibliotecha, special issue projects and other things; but we also strongly encourage that each one of you purchase their own RPi, that you can use as your own prototyping platform, take home, keep after you graduate, etc. The total price is around €60,- which is relatively cheap if you consider it is a full fledged computer, that can be repurposed for many different things. You can order RPis online, the prices are the same everywhere more or less. We have a good experience with Kiwi-electronics, but you can order them in many places (BTW the go-to-place for consumer electronics price watch in the Netherlands is https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/) You need the RPi itself, a Power Supply, and an SD Card. For instance: Pi 3 B+ 39.95€ https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus Power supply 9.95€ https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/rpi-psu-5-1v-2-5a--eu-uk Micro SD card+Adapter GB + SD Adapter 8.95€ https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/Transcend-8GB-Class-10-MicroSDHC-UHS-1 Sometimes, all the needed parts come as part of a promotional bundle, and some accessories can be also purchased but are not mandatory (like a case). If you have questions let us know! André will give a crash course on Monday and you will start using a shared RPi on the studio network. You don't need to have your own RPi for Monday. ////// Note for second years: we need you to return the Pis we lend you last year, unless they are being used to run collective projects, such as XPPL. Can you please send us a list of the Pis that are being used in collective projects? If your graduation project requires a Pi, you can use your graduation project budget to purchase it, but it will have to remain at XPUB after your graduation. ////// a. -- https://bleu255.com/~aymeric