Because Raspberry Pi HQ is in Cambridge and the ARM proccessor was invented in Cambridge. It used to be the computer capital of the UK in the 70's and 80's.
Yes! I am feeling much better this year-in fact, just got a bunch of blood tests and for the first time in a decade, all my numbers are in the 'good' range!
I live in Cambridge and didn't know it was the only shop from Raspberry, guys are always nice there. Too bad I didn't know you were passing there, would have been nice to get a selfie with the guy that made me learn Ansible to manage my cluster.
The usual, Jeff still hoarding Pis around the world. At this point, I've convinced myself not to buy one until Jeff stops buying them. Let's hope he doesn't start a Raspberry Pi black market soon !
Try RS Electronics - there's a few branches across the UK, and whilst I don't imagine they will have oscilloscopes on display (they tend to be more of an order warehouse with just a small retail area), they do at least stock quite a few models, and I've found their return policy to be quite decent in the past if it turns out you need a different model/spec. .
Ahh i do miss Maplin, but I don't miss what it became in the last 10 years of its life, it went from a Hobby and specialist focused store to another generic consumer electronics outlet. You could still buy components from them of course, but the offerings dwindled as their focus shifted until its demise.
I worked at the main returns department , to workout what was real faulty or people just changed their minds over ( B grade resells ), so the returns with between still unopened items to house bricks , and yes we did get a few house brick or wooden blocks instead of the returned item , but mostly missing PSUs. Not a good place to work at too, but work is work .
@@davidf2281 i remember crawling through their catalog when it was only 1/2” thick when I was 10 years old, such a shame they moved from their roots of a mail order only from Southend
@@davidf2281 I remember a lot of their Pi kits was returned why ? , because they included a cheap usb lead which wouldn't power it due to voltage drop on the cable . a returned item just because they cheaped out on the cable.
I can't wait to see the factory video!!! Your content and channel is getting better and better!!! Congrats on the new studio! Your channel is really under rated and hopefully be in the mutli million subs soon enough!!
I am glad you got to see my local shop! I love this store, I miss Maplin, but the pi store support and advice you get from the staff is great. I recently got a Pi Compute model from the store to complete a project. Do come across again...
Whenever I checked, Pi4 8G have always been available online in Thailand. And we have large electronic malls, not with Pi though, but rows of multimeters, oscilloscopes... Even a 4sq.m. shop dedicated to Ardiuno. And that is not even in the center of Bangkok.
Visited the store for the first time a few weeks ago after going to the wonderful Centre for Computing History also in Cambridge. Was really encouraging to see kids interacting with the demos and some doing their own thing. Would have spent hours in a store like this as a kid.
The Pi store is amazing. I fully appreciate all the little jokes you put in the subtitles Jeff; while also making the video more accessible to people. I'm sure the Sony Pi Factory video is going to be worth it ❤
@@earthling_parth it was a system where anyone (aka the community) could make subtitles/CC for any video in any language if the creater enabled that. All the creator had to do was approve them once they were submitted. This not only enhances accessibility (yt autogenerated captions suck outside of a few languages google actually cares about) but also opens up the video to completely new audiences due to language barriers (again, automatic translation is shit). For example in the V-tuber community there were entire groups dedicated to translating English content and clips to Japanese and vice versa. They still exist, but now have to re-upload the same video multiple times because they can't just simply add them to an existing video. It ruins the reach of these videos drastically. Edit: there even was a petition that got over 500K signatures but RUclips still removed it in favour of their autogenerated crap.
@@nezu_cc oh, I remember hearing Technology connections or some other science/education RUclipsr being stoked about it. It's sad this feature was removed. Thanks for the explanation. Hope you have a wonderful day 😊
Another brilliant video Jeff, you should be well over a million subscribers by now. You’re content just gets better & better. I’m sure it won’t e too much longer before you reach one million subscribers :)
There was also Tandy (i.e. Radio Shack!) but the shop guy looks a bit young to remember that. Both Tandy and Maplin went to poo before they disappeared.
Dallas microcenter also has it. It was pretty much whipped out when I saw it. They had some mugs and a keyboard and that was about it for that display.
As a Cambridge (high school) student i can definitely recommend this store - the staff are super friendly and go above and beyond to support their customers
I don't understand why the rest of the world, especially the US and UK, have lost their local electronics stores. The small market of Australia used to have Dick Smith, Jaycar, Altronics, Rod Irving and Tandy, and while we've lost a few both Jaycar and Altronics have expanded into national chains.
In the Netherlands also all stores are gone. The market is just too small. Average Joe is only interested into usb cable, iPhone, tablet or something stupid. The hardcore embedded developers with a soldering iron are too few apparently to run business shop.
Awww looking after your Dad 👍Gotta love that little Ansible mention when most English houses are tiny, no basement and a Cupboard under the stairs for shoes coats and IT stuff, home servers etc. Love the shop did you ask if they had any thing available that's not on display, you know you mention you know Eben and slide the Crisp Plastic English £5 note "a fiver" to the assistant and well you know a "Five A".....
Two videos that are absolutely necessary. #1: describe every rasberry pi, each one's capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, components (i.e. 2USB ports), speed, memory on board, can they run windows, linux. etc. etc. #2: compute modules, what types are avail. what do they do, how they connect, what do you need to make them work, any add on's, what can they run etc. etc. I'm a 69 year old and, although I've been involved in "micro computers" since the altair 8800, SWTPC 6800, (1970's) - There was a time that I didn't follow the technology and need to catch up on specifics. I'm not 100% up on "github". Help us old folks to get up to speed on things... Last year, I found out about the Arduino. Thank you.
4:50 - The microcenter in Dallas, TX has a display cabinet like this, but sadly it has been devoid of most rpi gear since the pandemic and all you can get is mice and maybe an rpi 400 if you're lucky.
Oh god you took the GN Service to London! If you ever go again, take the Greater Anglia service. The trains are much nicer (FLIRTS) and you end up at LST rather than KGX, making your XR transfer easier. Also XR has some cool automatic train operation signalling. Look up Siemens TrainGuard :)
It's a fun store (need to take my youngest son there again after that revamp). I work (rather than live ) in Cambridge (on Downing Site round the corner) so it's an occasional after-work treat 🙂. Hope my country did a good job of looking after you Jeff! If you do it again - there is a cool retro-computing museum to take in as well.
I saw you were visiting the store, I’d followed you on Instagram and on here a while, had I not been working that day I would have popped over hoping to catch you. I get all my Pis from the Cambridge store, such a nice little store to have here and over several trips I was able to build myself a 4xPi 4 8gb cluster, though I’ve had a lot of problems with it I think I probably need your book Jeff 1:50 that wall is the best 🤫
@@JeffGeerling it’s cool you got to meet some fans and it looks like you had fun on london public transport (how good is that Elizabeth line!!) Maybe I’ll catch you next time, there is a big maker space in Cambs which might be worth a visit next time you come. The UK Is Lovely, bring your family next time and take in some of the sites 🫡
From where i live there's literally a 4-storey mall with a bunch of shops that sells all kinds of electronics ranging from components all the way to hobbyist kits. Its pretty cool to have one here so makers can drop by and get what they need in an instant for their projects. Across the road is another related mall that mainly hosts shops selling computer parts.
We don't even have a decent computer store in the UK. It's mainly just a small amount of crappy pre built PC's shoved in amongst every other household electronic. Online is the only option if you want options.
Customs officer: What's the purpose of your visit, sir? Jeff: Tax write-off content masquerading as a vacation. CO: ? Jeff:? CO: Welcome to the UK, sir.
Just drove up to the store today and finally got a Pi Zero 2W essentials kit as well as some nice merch. Almost went for one of those Pimoroni 52mm diameter, round lcd screens but can't think of a good project yet...
Did you visit the computer history museum in Cambridge??? and did you go to the Baron of Beef in Cambridge where Clive Sinclair, Chris Curry and Sophie Wilson (the inventor of the ARM proccessor) used to drink???
I was slightly hopeful earlier this week when my page watcher said the CM4 store page had been updated. Turns out there still wasn't any stock, just the price had been put up. Been over a year since there was last stock in the UK now I think. I'm expecting at least 2024 to get hold of one to try out my turing pi.
@4:28 At the end of the day of a retail store in the '80s and '90s the Spectrums would have goop on the keyboards, the Amigas probably wouldn't boot any more and some pirate crowd had probably knackerd the C-64's 1541s trying to do some sort fancy "Turbo Disk Duplication" with a program they got from a dodgy Fish disk.
This place is just up the road from where i live (but i didn't know it existed lol) I was so gutted when Maplin Electronics closed all it's stores here in the UK, as it was my go to place for eletronic components and nowdays have to shop on Ebay for those parts. I do have 4x Raspberry Pi's in my collection so far. I have a R/Pi Pico which i use for work on the Xbox 360 consoles, i have 2x R/Pi 3b+'s and my latest Pi is a Pi 4b 2gb for my A1200 "FrankinPi" build. The range of R/Pi's is just amazing and they are a brilliant little computer board.
Here in Croatia, Pi computers came back in stock liek 1-2 months ago, I was surprised as there was a heavy shortage and scalpels were insane. Now you can find them but prices are still high
Actually living in the uk and I didn’t even know this store existed thanks for sharing.. it looks very similar to the apple shops but obviously more bits.. I’m still grabbing them when I can in kit form from pihut for my hospital digital displays I’ve even swapped from poe to wireless so I’m not wasting power supplies as I have about 30 spare 😂
It's a shame we don't have stores like this in the rest of the UK. Maplin was probably the closest but in the latter years before it went bust it had steered away from the hobbyist market.
In the US, Radio Shack was originally oriented towards the hobbyist market. They then went off on a tangent following fads like CB radios, then tried to become just a retailer for cell phones and batteries. That led to their demise. There was also Fry's Electronics which was a more complex failure. All gone now.
Haha the Pi Zero W is priced at 15 pounds, which would suggest that Pi Zero 2 is probably more expensive than that. On the upside at least the availability is getting better.
Yea you would never see this level of home maker electronics in any usual store in the UK. the only thing i can think of that is the most comparable is replacement fuses or plugs
It's a shame CPC Leeds used to be open to the public, their outlet was amazing. I work about a mile away 1-3 times a year and I used to love spending my lunch there and spend a few £££.
Did you mind the gap? I just came back from the UK and wish I knew about the store. That would have been fun to visit. And yeah, Elizabeth line is so nice and quick to get back to the airport.
"We" lost the plot when "we" let trade be so easily scalpable. Supply and demand - ready, set, go. "Ya wanna Pi? None in the store? None online? Pssst I gotta a bunch in back o' my truck. 40$ ? nah nah sonny - $200, you know you want it!"
@@Cyklonus There might be a use for used cpus now. I fully expect to find funny STX motherboards brand new that either reuses laptop chips, or takes socketed CPUs in Alibaba within 5 years
An epic tale unfolds: Jeff G. and the Crusade for The Last Piece of PI It's the year 2023 and a great plague has ravaged the world for years. In the aftermath of that cataclysm prices for some Silicon-based treats have reached heights that would make the clouds jealous. But all this is of no concern for King G. the Grey as he sent out his son Jeff on a Holy Crusade beyond the Great Pond to find the last piece of Pi and bring it home to his father so that he can enjoy the pleasures of building small home projects with it as so many others before him have.
With Marlin gone, there is no place here in the UK where we can buy electronic parts in person. Only online. It is summer of year 2024, and Raspberry Pi are normally available to the public again. I just bought a Raspberry Pi 400 from the Raspberry online store. The sad story about scalpers may have come to an end now that the SBCs are back on sustained production, making the scalpers hoard worthless for them. Thank you Jeff for this video. Greetings, Anthony
No RPIs by itself even in the bloody one of a kind RPI store? Bruuuh Problem is most of the use cases dont require any of the hardware from the kit, like a voron printer where you power it from GPIO and it all runs headless via network.
Hey Jeff, that's awesome, I live in Cambridge, and I have been in the store a few times, really loved it. Would've loved to meet you, maybe next time, you could have some organized event or something :)
I think the only thing I would buy from there would be niche accessories - like 45 degree angle 40 pin headers, and crazy pi hats. Admittedly, Ali Express seems to be a better treasure trove of weird things like that.
why did the jeff cross the pond? to get to the other pi 🤗
Yummy pie😋
Because Raspberry Pi HQ is in Cambridge and the ARM proccessor was invented in Cambridge. It used to be the computer capital of the UK in the 70's and 80's.
to get to the other PI-de?
Great pun 👌
@@sebastiansmith41r/woosh
Including the airfare and accommodation, the Pi Kit he bought for his dad was still cheaper than through local official retail channels.
Haha almost!
Yeah but you also get to go to another country which is a bonus
Instead of medical tourism it's now hardware tourism.
Blessed you have the health to go on the trip and experience it.
Yes! I am feeling much better this year-in fact, just got a bunch of blood tests and for the first time in a decade, all my numbers are in the 'good' range!
Ah, the Maplin electronics is badly missed by many, including me! So pleased he mentioned that.
such memories!
Don't forget Tandy, and the other once independent radio and electronics shops with that wonderful smell they all had.
Maplin where the prices were nearly double what they cost elsewhere online. There’s a reason they went out of business.
My wife loved Maplin's - she never bought anything but spent many a happy hour looking around while I shopped!
Add Fry's Electronics to the memorials.
I live in Cambridge and didn't know it was the only shop from Raspberry, guys are always nice there. Too bad I didn't know you were passing there, would have been nice to get a selfie with the guy that made me learn Ansible to manage my cluster.
Next time!
@@JeffGeerling👀
The usual, Jeff still hoarding Pis around the world. At this point, I've convinced myself not to buy one until Jeff stops buying them. Let's hope he doesn't start a Raspberry Pi black market soon !
Haha I follow rpilocator and whenever stock pops up I fly to that country and buy it all! Mwahahaha
(/s in case someone thinks this was serious)
@@JeffGeerling I always trough you dit that for sure, but now i know you did that LOL
@@JeffGeerling Flex move, skip the scalpers, spend more money flying out to buy from official outlets in person.
@@JeffGeerling 😄
@@JeffGeerling if only rpilocator allowed me to filter to my country. Shipping and import costs would just make it impractical to buy from overseas.
Being able to buy a decent looking oscilloscope in person in a store in the UK, that's a pleasant surprise to see.
Try RS Electronics - there's a few branches across the UK, and whilst I don't imagine they will have oscilloscopes on display (they tend to be more of an order warehouse with just a small retail area), they do at least stock quite a few models, and I've found their return policy to be quite decent in the past if it turns out you need a different model/spec.
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Handy place in case I need Filament in a hurry too.
Looks like you had a great time in the UK! Glad your Dad got his Pi. Visit again soon!
I hope to visit again soon! Next time, I'll try to take more time to do things other than travel everywhere and work on 3 videos over 3 days lol
Ahh i do miss Maplin, but I don't miss what it became in the last 10 years of its life, it went from a Hobby and specialist focused store to another generic consumer electronics outlet. You could still buy components from them of course, but the offerings dwindled as their focus shifted until its demise.
I worked at the main returns department , to workout what was real faulty or people just changed their minds over ( B grade resells ), so the returns with between still unopened items to house bricks , and yes we did get a few house brick or wooden blocks instead of the returned item , but mostly missing PSUs.
Not a good place to work at too, but work is work .
The catalog used to be my bible (and great artwork)
Yeah, it turned into a generic electronics tat shop because it was bought out by a private equity group which just wanted profit. Such a shame.
@@davidf2281 i remember crawling through their catalog when it was only 1/2” thick when I was 10 years old, such a shame they moved from their roots of a mail order only from Southend
@@davidf2281 I remember a lot of their Pi kits was returned why ? , because they included a cheap usb lead which wouldn't power it due to voltage drop on the cable .
a returned item just because they cheaped out on the cable.
I can't wait to see the factory video!!!
Your content and channel is getting better and better!!! Congrats on the new studio! Your channel is really under rated and hopefully be in the mutli million subs soon enough!!
Really liking this little UK-based series - thanks for doing this and Welcome! (Although I expect you're back home by now.)
Yes, back home editing all these videos!
I am glad you got to see my local shop! I love this store, I miss Maplin, but the pi store support and advice you get from the staff is great.
I recently got a Pi Compute model from the store to complete a project. Do come across again...
Maplin was a good store😢, heck I still have a maplin battery and dust spray can
7:43 "Keep Left"
Excellent advice.
Whenever I checked, Pi4 8G have always been available online in Thailand. And we have large electronic malls, not with Pi though, but rows of multimeters, oscilloscopes... Even a 4sq.m. shop dedicated to Ardiuno. And that is not even in the center of Bangkok.
That guy from over the counter is one of nicest folk I’ve met, always there to help when I visit the store.
Visited the store for the first time a few weeks ago after going to the wonderful Centre for Computing History also in Cambridge. Was really encouraging to see kids interacting with the demos and some doing their own thing. Would have spent hours in a store like this as a kid.
The Pi store is amazing. I fully appreciate all the little jokes you put in the subtitles Jeff; while also making the video more accessible to people. I'm sure the Sony Pi Factory video is going to be worth it ❤
I'm still mad at youtube for killing community contributions.
@@nezu_cc what was community creations? I don't think I've heard about that
@@earthling_parth it was a system where anyone (aka the community) could make subtitles/CC for any video in any language if the creater enabled that. All the creator had to do was approve them once they were submitted. This not only enhances accessibility (yt autogenerated captions suck outside of a few languages google actually cares about) but also opens up the video to completely new audiences due to language barriers (again, automatic translation is shit).
For example in the V-tuber community there were entire groups dedicated to translating English content and clips to Japanese and vice versa. They still exist, but now have to re-upload the same video multiple times because they can't just simply add them to an existing video. It ruins the reach of these videos drastically.
Edit: there even was a petition that got over 500K signatures but RUclips still removed it in favour of their autogenerated crap.
@@nezu_cc oh, I remember hearing Technology connections or some other science/education RUclipsr being stoked about it. It's sad this feature was removed. Thanks for the explanation. Hope you have a wonderful day 😊
Another brilliant video Jeff, you should be well over a million subscribers by now. You’re content just gets better & better. I’m sure it won’t e too much longer before you reach one million subscribers :)
Amazing - although I live in the UK, I had no idea that we've got an actual Pi shop!
Great job, looked like fun trip. I can't wait for the factory tour, looking forward to it.
There was also Tandy (i.e. Radio Shack!) but the shop guy looks a bit young to remember that. Both Tandy and Maplin went to poo before they disappeared.
Looking forward to seeing the Pi factory video, it’s just up the road from me!
this man travelled across the ocean and didn't pay the extra £20 for 8 GBs of ram
Jeff, JEFF. We have another store now.... in Leeds, UK at Victoria Gate shopping centre. You'll have to come back for another visit!
Indeed I will!
Yay - Jeff in the UK - hope you're visit was pleasant 🙂
Glad that you had a great time over here.
And yes, The "L" in soldering is not silent :-p
Sick video Jeff you've now visited the best parts of my country. Great staff, lovely store. Welcome bro
The micro center in Los Angeles already has one of those setups. It still is rare to find any pi except a pico, but they have the display.
At least if you have a Pi already, there's a good assortment of accessories!
Dallas microcenter also has it. It was pretty much whipped out when I saw it. They had some mugs and a keyboard and that was about it for that display.
Can't wait for the factory tour!
Dude! You couldn't give us a heads up and maybe take some orders for us? jk. . . glad you're able to get back to making videos! This was great!
I live in (very North of) UK and haven’t been able to buy one for years, and it’s probably quicker for you to fly than me to travel down 😁
0:30 can't believe you missed it! The Raspberry PI Joystick!! Cool little thing!!
As a Cambridge (high school) student i can definitely recommend this store - the staff are super friendly and go above and beyond to support their customers
Great video. I live near Cambridge and love visiting the Pi shop. Just waiting for my kids to be old enough to start building some projects with them.
man i do hope they bring back more electronics stores 👍 they should not have been lost to time.
I don't understand why the rest of the world, especially the US and UK, have lost their local electronics stores. The small market of Australia used to have Dick Smith, Jaycar, Altronics, Rod Irving and Tandy, and while we've lost a few both Jaycar and Altronics have expanded into national chains.
In the Netherlands also all stores are gone. The market is just too small. Average Joe is only interested into usb cable, iPhone, tablet or something stupid. The hardcore embedded developers with a soldering iron are too few apparently to run business shop.
Brillant video! I am from the UK and didn't know there was a raspberry pi store, definitely go on my next day off.
This is the effort I expect out of my son...he's 2 months old
Raising him right!
Awww looking after your Dad 👍Gotta love that little Ansible mention when most English houses are tiny, no basement and a Cupboard under the stairs for shoes coats and IT stuff, home servers etc. Love the shop did you ask if they had any thing available that's not on display, you know you mention you know Eben and slide the Crisp Plastic English £5 note "a fiver" to the assistant and well you know a "Five A".....
As someone who regularly transverses through Cambridge, this store is where most of my bank account goes 😳
Two videos that are absolutely necessary. #1: describe every rasberry pi, each one's capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, components (i.e. 2USB ports), speed, memory on board, can they run windows, linux. etc. etc.
#2: compute modules, what types are avail. what do they do, how they connect, what do you need to make them work, any add on's, what can they run etc. etc.
I'm a 69 year old and, although I've been involved in "micro computers" since the altair 8800, SWTPC 6800, (1970's) - There was a time that I didn't follow the technology and need to catch up on specifics. I'm not 100% up on "github". Help us old folks to get up to speed on things... Last year, I found out about the Arduino. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed Cambridge :) RIP Maplins. Used to spend hours messing about in there.
These travel videos are the best.
This shop is awesome, always really nice to browse for project inspiration.
4:50 - The microcenter in Dallas, TX has a display cabinet like this, but sadly it has been devoid of most rpi gear since the pandemic and all you can get is mice and maybe an rpi 400 if you're lucky.
Oh god you took the GN Service to London!
If you ever go again, take the Greater Anglia service. The trains are much nicer (FLIRTS) and you end up at LST rather than KGX, making your XR transfer easier.
Also XR has some cool automatic train operation signalling. Look up Siemens TrainGuard :)
KGX is the only real station in London. The others are for southerners 😛 (/s just in case)
Yes but GN is about the worst way to arrive there. Either that or TLK (but they are one and the same anyway)…
Jeff, I am your father. bring me a pi
Haha nice try! But I did help on the production line to make 18 Pis. Actually, I think I slowed it down, so maybe I didn't help that much :D
@@JeffGeerling It must have been your soddering skills. :)
It's a fun store (need to take my youngest son there again after that revamp). I work (rather than live ) in Cambridge (on Downing Site round the corner) so it's an occasional after-work treat 🙂. Hope my country did a good job of looking after you Jeff!
If you do it again - there is a cool retro-computing museum to take in as well.
Great video and what a trip to get your dad a Raspberry pi LOL. I will have to keep that in mind next time I go over to England for work.
I am in Cambridge and a regular at this store. Love looking at that wall of parts and have a cupboard at home full of random stuff as a result.
Good video Jeff, actually embarrassed you visited the pi store before me and I live 40 miles away.
Get to it! :)
I saw you were visiting the store, I’d followed you on Instagram and on here a while, had I not been working that day I would have popped over hoping to catch you. I get all my Pis from the Cambridge store, such a nice little store to have here and over several trips I was able to build myself a 4xPi 4 8gb cluster, though I’ve had a lot of problems with it I think I probably need your book Jeff
1:50 that wall is the best 🤫
Aww, missed you then! I did get to meet a few subscribers / fellow makers. One even handed me this cool flat wallet-optimized Airtag he designed!
@@JeffGeerling it’s cool you got to meet some fans and it looks like you had fun on london public transport (how good is that Elizabeth line!!)
Maybe I’ll catch you next time, there is a big maker space in Cambs which might be worth a visit next time you come.
The UK Is Lovely, bring your family next time and take in some of the sites 🫡
Omg you linked Dan Wood in the Maplin video, he does Amiga stuff!
Many great folks in the UK!
From where i live there's literally a 4-storey mall with a bunch of shops that sells all kinds of electronics ranging from components all the way to hobbyist kits. Its pretty cool to have one here so makers can drop by and get what they need in an instant for their projects.
Across the road is another related mall that mainly hosts shops selling computer parts.
Heh, my thought exactly. Somewhere not in the US or UK, for sure!
Singapore. However i doubt it's that massive compared to Shenzhen (i've seen Strange Parts' video with Linus).
We don't even have a decent computer store in the UK. It's mainly just a small amount of crappy pre built PC's shoved in amongst every other household electronic. Online is the only option if you want options.
Impressed by the lengths you'll go to to avoid paying scalpers!
Mwahaha "underground scalping rings"
When is comes to scalpers, airlines are among the worst.
Jeff, you are a legend! Thanks for bringing us on the journey.
Lock Jeff in there overnight, and he'd build data from Star Trek.
Customs officer: What's the purpose of your visit, sir?
Jeff: Tax write-off content masquerading as a vacation.
CO: ?
Jeff:?
CO: Welcome to the UK, sir.
This shop is my personal heaven! 😄
Just drove up to the store today and finally got a Pi Zero 2W essentials kit as well as some nice merch. Almost went for one of those Pimoroni 52mm diameter, round lcd screens but can't think of a good project yet...
Did you visit the computer history museum in Cambridge??? and did you go to the Baron of Beef in Cambridge where Clive Sinclair, Chris Curry and Sophie Wilson (the inventor of the ARM proccessor) used to drink???
Unfortunately no :(
I didn't plan any sightseeing days, but I should for next time!
@@JeffGeerling Ah that's a shame. Next time you come over, I'll help you with some really cool places to visit, all very computer related.
I'm fortunate enough to live 20 minutes away from the store and I have to be honest it's kinda strange to see it (and the surroundings) on here lol
When you talking about there is Rpi in Micro center, We over here in the Carolina doesn't even have a Micro Center, the closest one is in GA or VA.
The PI man. Iove your videos man. Such friendly understated attitude.
Welcome to the UK, yeah we've had raspberry pi's for a few month now cost has kinda dropped but not by a lot
A Pi Factory video! Oh wow! FUN! Can't wait.
I was slightly hopeful earlier this week when my page watcher said the CM4 store page had been updated. Turns out there still wasn't any stock, just the price had been put up. Been over a year since there was last stock in the UK now I think. I'm expecting at least 2024 to get hold of one to try out my turing pi.
@4:28 At the end of the day of a retail store in the '80s and '90s the Spectrums would have goop on the keyboards, the Amigas probably wouldn't boot any more and some pirate crowd had probably knackerd the C-64's 1541s trying to do some sort fancy "Turbo Disk Duplication" with a program they got from a dodgy Fish disk.
This place is just up the road from where i live (but i didn't know it existed lol) I was so gutted when Maplin Electronics closed all it's stores here in the UK, as it was my go to place for eletronic components and nowdays have to shop on Ebay for those parts. I do have 4x Raspberry Pi's in my collection so far. I have a R/Pi Pico which i use for work on the Xbox 360 consoles, i have 2x R/Pi 3b+'s and my latest Pi is a Pi 4b 2gb for my A1200 "FrankinPi" build. The range of R/Pi's is just amazing and they are a brilliant little computer board.
Here in Croatia, Pi computers came back in stock liek 1-2 months ago, I was surprised as there was a heavy shortage and scalpels were insane.
Now you can find them but prices are still high
Gosh darn it, if I'd known you were local I'd have invited you to the local beer festival!
The Micro Center in Dallas has one of those Pi locations that they're putting in now...good stuff
Actually living in the uk and I didn’t even know this store existed thanks for sharing.. it looks very similar to the apple shops but obviously more bits.. I’m still grabbing them when I can in kit form from pihut for my hospital digital displays I’ve even swapped from poe to wireless so I’m not wasting power supplies as I have about 30 spare 😂
Jeff: you can get them, they're in stock
me: not able to afford the cross pond trip for a RPI4
This is the Shop, i always have dreamed of.
It's a shame we don't have stores like this in the rest of the UK. Maplin was probably the closest but in the latter years before it went bust it had steered away from the hobbyist market.
In the US, Radio Shack was originally oriented towards the hobbyist market. They then went off on a tangent following fads like CB radios, then tried to become just a retailer for cell phones and batteries. That led to their demise. There was also Fry's Electronics which was a more complex failure. All gone now.
Ngl, the subway footage was shockingly good
I'm looking forward to the pi factory visit
Nice, I didn't know about your Ansible book, ordering it now!
Haha the Pi Zero W is priced at 15 pounds, which would suggest that Pi Zero 2 is probably more expensive than that.
On the upside at least the availability is getting better.
A UK meet-up would have been fun.
I think it must be done next time!
Yea you would never see this level of home maker electronics in any usual store in the UK. the only thing i can think of that is the most comparable is replacement fuses or plugs
It's a shame CPC Leeds used to be open to the public, their outlet was amazing. I work about a mile away 1-3 times a year and I used to love spending my lunch there and spend a few £££.
Did you mind the gap?
I just came back from the UK and wish I knew about the store. That would have been fun to visit. And yeah, Elizabeth line is so nice and quick to get back to the airport.
I did! Back in one piece.
Surprised red shirt Jeff didn’t make it. So they had red shirt pi there instead.
That large pcb board I really need a couple of them.
The real Pi store. I was expecting armed guards and robot-turrets lol
Marlin closed! Damn, Dad used to get their catalog and use it for reference, could not get the goods in South Africa but the book was useful.
I think we lost the plot if we have to cross a freaking ocean to buy a 40$ piece of hardware…
The more funny is you can only buy some kits...
And not so long ago they were so cheap...
"We" lost the plot when "we" let trade be so easily scalpable. Supply and demand - ready, set, go.
"Ya wanna Pi? None in the store? None online? Pssst I gotta a bunch in back o' my truck. 40$ ? nah nah sonny - $200, you know you want it!"
@@SteveLFBO this is the result, not the cause
@@Cyklonus
There might be a use for used cpus now. I fully expect to find funny STX motherboards brand new that either reuses laptop chips, or takes socketed CPUs in Alibaba within 5 years
I live a few hours away from that store and went one time I was down in Cambridge super cool store!
Such a cute store and such a cute video!
Thanks Jeff :)
I just watched someone buy something from a shop...now thats entertainment.
NICE! Whos is to say they don't pronounce soldering wrong!! HA! Good stuff!
I do have some of the pi prototype cases, a friend of mine is product designer involved with Rpi.
And that's why pro analogue audio has male XLR plugs for inputs and female for outputs.
"For my daughter" ... Okay, Jeff 😉
It's is quite soft! My other kids are jealous though... the youngest one gets all the plushies!
An epic tale unfolds:
Jeff G. and the Crusade for The Last Piece of PI
It's the year 2023 and a great plague has ravaged the world for years. In the aftermath of that cataclysm prices for some Silicon-based treats have reached heights that would make the clouds jealous. But all this is of no concern for King G. the Grey as he sent out his son Jeff on a Holy Crusade beyond the Great Pond to find the last piece of Pi and bring it home to his father so that he can enjoy the pleasures of building small home projects with it as so many others before him have.
With Marlin gone, there is no place here in the UK where we can buy electronic parts in person. Only online.
It is summer of year 2024, and Raspberry Pi are normally available to the public again. I just bought a Raspberry Pi 400 from the Raspberry online store. The sad story about scalpers may have come to an end now that the SBCs are back on sustained production, making the scalpers hoard worthless for them.
Thank you Jeff for this video.
Greetings,
Anthony
2:24 Red Shirt Pi-Genius! Should have stolen his shirt!
No RPIs by itself even in the bloody one of a kind RPI store?
Bruuuh
Problem is most of the use cases dont require any of the hardware from the kit, like a voron printer where you power it from GPIO and it all runs headless via network.
Hey Jeff, that's awesome, I live in Cambridge, and I have been in the store a few times, really loved it. Would've loved to meet you, maybe next time, you could have some organized event or something :)
I think the only thing I would buy from there would be niche accessories - like 45 degree angle 40 pin headers, and crazy pi hats. Admittedly, Ali Express seems to be a better treasure trove of weird things like that.