Pi Factory?

[Grant Stephens]

Anybody used them before?

Claiming they have stock and price isn't too bad... http://www.pifactory.co.za/

[Tom Van den Bon]

They have some nice stuff. I'd be interested as well.

T

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Grant Stephens <gr...@stephens.co.za> wrote:

Anybody used them before?

Claiming they have stock and price isn't too bad... http://www.pifactory.co.za/

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[Kobus Van der Walt]

Friend of mine bought from them.. happy with his pi's

the http://www.pifactory.co.za/nano-usb-wireless looks interesting.. just what i need..

thinking of going past there next Wednesday...

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Grant Stephens <gr...@stephens.co.za> wrote:

Anybody used them before?

Claiming they have stock and price isn't too bad... http://www.pifactory.co.za/

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[Schalk Heunis]

I have been looking at the Piface, this could be fun to play with and was thinking about buying through them - glad to hear he was happy with the product.

S

[Peter van der Walt (Gmail)]

And there goes their stock ):   Mailing list killed communica's Arduino Mega stock the other day so better be quick before the H4H members steal all the Pi's too! lol

Peter

[Noto Modungwa]

...and I just got my RPi from pifactory, thanx for the hook up Grant!

 I'm thinking to do a dual boot of android and http://www.raspbmc.com/about/

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Noto Modungwa

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[Devin Pearson]

Bought some stuff from them today. They look like a security systems whole seller so pifactory seems to be a side business

[Philip Booysen]

Who knows, that might just be a strategic move from their side to cater for next year when they'll start integrating Pi's into their commercial security solutions ;)

This just made me realise again how small the Pi is as it would be able to even hide behind an alarm activation panel and still be a server ...

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[C.Lee Taylor]

Pi can be used to do SMS and mail cheaper than Alarm box add-ons. Nice!!

[Carel Scholtz]

That's debatable. Pi + GSM USB modem (one that works) is not that cheap - not so nice! Unless I have it all wrong as my Pi skills are not that great. 

[Philip Booysen]

Alarm systems when bought commercially is not cheap. Full stop :) Pi solution might work out cheaper, who knows.

[Devin Pearson]

You do have the option of sending the sms thru an online provider like clickatell and then you wouldnt need a GSM modem. would obviously need a working internet connection

[Tom Van den Bon]

True, but if I was making a alarm module using the pi then I would probably not use a usb modem. Rather use a modem module with and connect it straight to ttl level uart. I'm pretty sure the raspberry pi gpio pins bring out atleast one uart? if not more?

Would be a fun little project...

Tom Van den Bon 

[Chris Ainslie]

I would use a 3G dongle, not for the Internet, but to send the sms. They're cheap as chips these days and most people actually have unused spares lying around.

Problem solved.

Chris

Sent from a phone.

[Carel Scholtz]

Have anyone been able to use a cheap 3G dongle with a Pi sending SMS's? If so I would like to find out how.