I visited the only Raspberry Pi store in the world
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- I wanted to see this mythical place where Raspberry Pis are actually in stock!
And if you look very closely, you'll see they even had one Compute Module 4 in stock at the end of the day lol.
Thank you SO much to everyone who supports this channel: the viewers, subscribers, patrons, sponsors, members... you all made it possible for me to take this trip to the UK and visit the Pi Store, the factory, and interview Eben Upton, so-thank you!
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Contents:
00:00 - Dad can't find a Pi
00:16 - Hello Pi Store
02:11 - Filling the hole Maplin left
03:15 - Scalpers ruin EVERYTHING
04:01 - Exploring the Pi gear
05:02 - Maker wall
06:29 - A little Pi History (in the checkout counter)
07:14 - Buy and Fly a Pi
08:08 - Delivery - and good news! - Věda a technologie
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.
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.
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!
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.
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👀
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
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. :)
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!
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 CZcams still removed it in favour of their autogenerated crap.
@@nezu_cc oh, I remember hearing Technology connections or some other science/education CZcamsr being stoked about it. It's sad this feature was removed. Thanks for the explanation. Hope you have a wonderful day 😊
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.
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
Can't wait for the factory tour!
7:43 "Keep Left"
Excellent advice.
Great job, looked like fun trip. I can't wait for the factory tour, looking forward to it.
Wow, pi CEO is Jason Statham? Thats cool :)
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 :)
Looking forward to seeing the Pi factory video, it’s just up the road from me!
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.
Jeff, you are a legend! Thanks for bringing us on the journey.
Sick video Jeff you've now visited the best parts of my country. Great staff, lovely store. Welcome bro
Yay - Jeff in the UK - hope you're visit was pleasant 🙂
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.
That guy from over the counter is one of nicest folk I’ve met, always there to help when I visit the store.
This shop is awesome, always really nice to browse for project inspiration.
Such a cute store and such a cute video!
Thanks Jeff :)
Brillant video! I am from the UK and didn't know there was a raspberry pi store, definitely go on my next day off.
Glad that you had a great time over here.
And yes, The "L" in soldering is not silent :-p
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.
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!
Amazing - although I live in the UK, I had no idea that we've got an actual Pi shop!
These travel videos are the best.
Nice, I didn't know about your Ansible book, ordering it now!
The PI man. Iove your videos man. Such friendly understated attitude.
As someone who regularly transverses through Cambridge, this store is where most of my bank account goes 😳
this man travelled across the ocean and didn't pay the extra £20 for 8 GBs of ram
Great little video 😁
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!
0:30 can't believe you missed it! The Raspberry PI Joystick!! Cool little thing!!
Lock Jeff in there overnight, and he'd build data from Star Trek.
Glad you enjoyed Cambridge :) RIP Maplins. Used to spend hours messing about in there.
A Pi Factory video! Oh wow! FUN! Can't wait.
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".....
This is the effort I expect out of my son...he's 2 months old
Raising him right!
I'm looking forward to the pi factory visit
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.
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...
This shop is my personal heaven! 😄
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.
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.
Gosh darn it, if I'd known you were local I'd have invited you to the local beer festival!
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.
Woot! That was awesome!
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 😁
I live a few hours away from that store and went one time I was down in Cambridge super cool store!
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)…
This is the Shop, i always have dreamed of.
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
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
The Micro Center in Dallas has one of those Pi locations that they're putting in now...good stuff
Good video Jeff, actually embarrassed you visited the pi store before me and I live 40 miles away.
Get to it! :)
The real Pi store. I was expecting armed guards and robot-turrets lol
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.
You had a great trip. I ended up getting an Orange Pi here in Australia. Pis are over 200 dollars Australian here.
That was one helluva shipping charge!
A great place, so glad it lives! Cool!
Ngl, the subway footage was shockingly good
"For my daughter" ... Okay, Jeff 😉
It's is quite soft! My other kids are jealous though... the youngest one gets all the plushies!
I and many other raspberries fan live in Cambridge, Would have brought you a pint or three. Aye I grew up with Tandy and Maplin. And also lucky had electronic junk shops. Alas no more for tinker hobbyist.
Keep up the good work 👍
Jeff: you can get them, they're in stock
me: not able to afford the cross pond trip for a RPI4
This is what radio shack should have turned into.
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.
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.
Omg you linked Dan Wood in the Maplin video, he does Amiga stuff!
Many great folks in the UK!
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 😂
You rock Jeff !! Love this content !!
what a cool store
Haha fun they told you about pronouncing soldering in the non-US style (as opposed to soddering) 😉. Nice setup in the store, the popup one they had in Edinburgh was similar in design.
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.
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.
I made some Raspberry Pies in anticipation of of them being in stock once again, they were delicious, however they did not compute.
Is there a roadmap for the (highly speculated upon) RPi5?
Thanks for the pond-skipping Jeff, awesomeness!
2:24 Red Shirt Pi-Genius! Should have stolen his shirt!
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.
2:12 lol it's a baby tom scot
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
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 do have some of the pi prototype cases, a friend of mine is product designer involved with Rpi.
Can anyone imagine that store in NY, Chicago, SF or LA ???😂
Empty shelves and ransacked displays...and a bunch of guys in hoodies outside selling them for big $... "it's all good"...🤣🤣
The last time I came across a shop full of raspberry pi parts was some electronics store in an alley in Akihabara in Tokyo. I wish there's something like in this video not too far away from me.
scalping Pi's is the worst crime
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.
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
I just watched someone buy something from a shop...now thats entertainment.
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.
The stack of big Vero boards would have came home with me.
Very good video.