{"id":641197,"date":"2013-02-04T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=127973"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:34:02","slug":"the-stripped-down-model-a-raspberry-pi-now-available-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641197","title":{"rendered":"The stripped-down Model A Raspberry Pi now available in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-127975\" title=\"Model-A\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Model-A-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/>The Model B Raspberry Pi is hardly expensive, costing just $35 (plus local taxes and shipping\/handling fees). But if that\u2019s a little too much for you, or you don\u2019t need fancy features like Ethernet, and 256MB of RAM sounds more than adequate, you can now get your hands on the Model A Raspberry Pi for a bargain $10 cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnell.com\/\" >Premier Farnell\/Element 14 <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.rs-online.com\/web\/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi\" >RS Components<\/a>, the Model A version of the popular\u00a0credit card-sized <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/10\/16\/raspberry-pi-adds-more-ram-keeps-price-the-same\/\" >ARM GNU\/Linux computer<\/a> will cost just $25. Although it\u2019s currently only available in Europe, it will be rolling out to the rest of the world shortly. If you live in the US you can pre-order one, but there will be a slight delay before the order can be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>The Model A might have half the RAM, just one USB port and no Ethernet, but that does mean it consumes less power than its sibling, making it ideal for projects powered by batteries or solar power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit:<\/strong> The Raspberry Pi Foundation<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=qgJGp41edH4:0jWjEqgtrfY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=qgJGp41edH4:0jWjEqgtrfY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/qgJGp41edH4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Model B Raspberry Pi is hardly expensive, costing just $35 (plus local taxes and shipping\/handling fees). But if that\u2019s a little too much for you, or you don\u2019t need fancy features like Ethernet, and 256MB of RAM sounds more than adequate, you can now get your hands on the Model A Raspberry Pi for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}