Daily Deal: Last Chance For Raspberry Pi Deals

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Wed, Oct 21st 2015 10:35am — Daily Deal

This is your last chance to save on two of our popular Raspberry Pi Resource deals.

The Raspberry Pi Hacker Bundle available for $39 will get you well on your way to mastering the needed skills for working with Raspberry Pi. The five courses cover everything from an introduction for newbies to learning Python to learning the ropes of hardware design. There are hands-on projects to test your skills along the way that include learning to code different light patterns in Christmas lights, creating a motion-controlled, laughing teddy bear, and culminating in building your own robot.

The Complete Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit, for $115, has what you need to get started with the Raspberry Pi 2. The bundle includes all of the hardware required to start playing around with the Pi 2, which is faster and has more memory than the original. You also get access to online training courses that cover everything from a basic introduction to the world of Raspberry Pi to coding in Python to building robots with your Pi 2 and more.

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Anonymous Coward, 21 Oct 2015 @ 11:01am

Utter BS
Oh look, it's this bullshit again. Those courses are worth $5 tops, not freaking $200. That's not 85% off, that's $20 overcharged. Massively marking shit up so you can call it a sale is extremely unethical. You need to find a new company to do sponsored ads for, because stackcommerce is clearly shady as shit.
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Anonymous Coward, 21 Oct 2015 @ 1:08pm

Re: Utter BS
Thank you! So damn tired of seeing this. I keep seeing the same kind of shit for Udemy on ARS too, 95% of a $200 course my ass.
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Mike Masnick (profile), 21 Oct 2015 @ 2:41pm

Re: Utter BS
That's not 85% off, that's $20 overcharged. Massively marking shit up so you can call it a sale is extremely unethical.

I agree. From here on out we will no longer highlight bogus "discounts" if it seems clear that the original price is not even remotely legit. It's a bad practice and I apologize that we did it.
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Teka, 21 Oct 2015 @ 2:55pm

Re: Re: Utter BS
Magical

People read an article (/ad) and responded to it's content (visibly and right below where the original material was posted) and that created a reaction by someone responsible for that content.

This is groundbreaking, just wait 'till all the newspapers and news sites get in on this, it will really enhance their content
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Mr Big Content, 21 Oct 2015 @ 3:06pm

What, No Microsoft Windows Version?
Why dont you offer the one with the powerful Microsoft WINDOWS 10 OS on it, instead of this moronic Lunix? Wouldnt you're users want a OS that can RUN REAL APPS LIKE MICROSOFT OFFICE AND ADOBE PHOTOSOHP, instead of this amatuer hacker Linsux stuff that nobody cares about?

Wake up and smell teh coffee, people! REAL COMPTUING REQUIRES REAL MICROSOFT OS!!!
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Anonymous Anonymous Coward, 21 Oct 2015 @ 7:06pm

Re: What, No Microsoft Windows Version?
I am afraid that the windoze version will run into similar isssues that the linux version does...which is the Arm processor. Only some Linux programs are compiled for Arm, many that I would like to use are not, Then there is the issue of memory and horsepower, which the Pi has little of. Don't get me wrong, I like the Pi's, I have three of them, but they are most effective (in my view) as single function devices.

The one running my NAS has months of uptime and only gets rebooted when I mess with it, or it gets updates I feel will be better off with a reboot, though none is requested.

The one running Open Embeded Linux Entertainment Center OS (a very limited Linux) with Kodi (formerly Xbox video player) does seem to need a reboot after roughly a week or so of constant use, but is otherwise solid.

The one I have the most trouble with is the 1 gigabyte version, but then I am trying to use it as a general purpose computer (Chrome only has older versions for Arm thus things like Sync won't work, and it cannot be upgraded) and it locks up with little effort.
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Anonymous Coward, 21 Oct 2015 @ 9:49pm

Re: Re: What, No Microsoft Windows Version?
With linux, you are at least likely to be able to compile most stuff from source yourself. I'd kill for a skype chat client though. Pidgin seems to be the only one, and it piggybacks on top of a running skype client, which makes it less than ideal on x86, and useless on ARM, since there isn't an ARM skype.
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