why did the jeff cross the pond? to get to the other pi 🤗

@somebody3271

Жыл бұрын

Yummy pie😋

@sebastiansmith41

Жыл бұрын

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.

@unicodefox

Жыл бұрын

to get to the other PI-de?

@yaboiminecraff

Жыл бұрын

Great pun 👌

@yaboiminecraff

Жыл бұрын

​@@sebastiansmith41r/woosh

Including the airfare and accommodation, the Pi Kit he bought for his dad was still cheaper than through local official retail channels.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Haha almost!

@tristanwait4itlegendary

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but you also get to go to another country which is a bonus

@arcrad

11 ай бұрын

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.

@robdavy4468

Жыл бұрын

such memories!

@squelchstuff

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Tandy, and the other once independent radio and electronics shops with that wonderful smell they all had.

@danielktdoranie

Жыл бұрын

Maplin where the prices were nearly double what they cost elsewhere online. There’s a reason they went out of business.

@andrewbeasley

Жыл бұрын

My wife loved Maplin's - she never bought anything but spent many a happy hour looking around while I shopped!

@dktol56

Жыл бұрын

Add Fry's Electronics to the memorials.

Blessed you have the health to go on the trip and experience it.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

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.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Next time!

@pi0neer758

9 ай бұрын

​@@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 !

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

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)

@NielsNL68

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffGeerling I always trough you dit that for sure, but now i know you did that LOL

@RonLaws

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffGeerling Flex move, skip the scalpers, spend more money flying out to buy from official outlets in person.

@abhijeetghosh27

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffGeerling 😄

@SteveWray

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@NFMorley

Жыл бұрын

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. .

@inthestudy

Жыл бұрын

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!

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

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.

@peteradshead2383

Жыл бұрын

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 .

@grahameida7163

Жыл бұрын

The catalog used to be my bible (and great artwork)

@davidf2281

Жыл бұрын

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.

@grahameida7163

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@peteradshead2383

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

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 ❤

@nezu_cc

Жыл бұрын

I'm still mad at youtube for killing community contributions.

@earthling_parth

Жыл бұрын

@@nezu_cc what was community creations? I don't think I've heard about that

@nezu_cc

Жыл бұрын

@@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 KZread still removed it in favour of their autogenerated crap.

@earthling_parth

Жыл бұрын

@@nezu_cc oh, I remember hearing Technology connections or some other science/education KZreadr being stoked about it. It's sad this feature was removed. Thanks for the explanation. Hope you have a wonderful day 😊

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.

Really liking this little UK-based series - thanks for doing this and Welcome! (Although I expect you're back home by now.)

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Yes, back home editing all these videos!

That guy from over the counter is one of nicest folk I’ve met, always there to help when I visit the store.

7:43 "Keep Left" Excellent advice.

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...

@allencorea2310

11 ай бұрын

Maplin was a good store😢, heck I still have a maplin battery and dust spray can

Can't wait for the factory tour!

Wow, pi CEO is Jason Statham? Thats cool :)

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.

Glad that you had a great time over here. And yes, The "L" in soldering is not silent :-p

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.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

At least if you have a Pi already, there's a good assortment of accessories!

@AdrianSchwartzmann

Жыл бұрын

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.

Jeff, I am your father. bring me a pi

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

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

@veryboringname.

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffGeerling It must have been your soddering skills. :)

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 :)

Great job, looked like fun trip. I can't wait for the factory tour, looking forward to it.

Amazing - although I live in the UK, I had no idea that we've got an actual Pi shop!

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 😁

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.

Yay - Jeff in the UK - hope you're visit was pleasant 🙂

Sick video Jeff you've now visited the best parts of my country. Great staff, lovely store. Welcome bro

This shop is awesome, always really nice to browse for project inspiration.

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.

Brillant video! I am from the UK and didn't know there was a raspberry pi store, definitely go on my next day off.

Jeff, you are a legend! Thanks for bringing us on the journey.

0:30 can't believe you missed it! The Raspberry PI Joystick!! Cool little thing!!

As someone who regularly transverses through Cambridge, this store is where most of my bank account goes 😳

man i do hope they bring back more electronics stores 👍 they should not have been lost to time.

@ffsireallydontcare

Жыл бұрын

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.

@MelroyvandenBerg

Жыл бұрын

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.

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.

These travel videos are the best.

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 :)

@stevencommon

Жыл бұрын

KGX is the only real station in London. The others are for southerners 😛 (/s just in case)

@CoffeeOnRails

Жыл бұрын

Yes but GN is about the worst way to arrive there. Either that or TLK (but they are one and the same anyway)…

The PI man. Iove your videos man. Such friendly understated attitude.

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.

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 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

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.

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.

Glad you enjoyed Cambridge :) RIP Maplins. Used to spend hours messing about in there.

this man travelled across the ocean and didn't pay the extra £20 for 8 GBs of ram

Nice, I didn't know about your Ansible book, ordering it now!

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...

Such a cute store and such a cute video! Thanks Jeff :)

This shop is my personal heaven! 😄

This is the effort I expect out of my son...he's 2 months old

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Raising him right!

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

I live a few hours away from that store and went one time I was down in Cambridge super cool store!

You had a great trip. I ended up getting an Orange Pi here in Australia. Pis are over 200 dollars Australian here.

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.

A Pi Factory video! Oh wow! FUN! Can't wait.

The Micro Center in Dallas has one of those Pi locations that they're putting in now...good stuff

Great little video 😁

Omg you linked Dan Wood in the Maplin video, he does Amiga stuff!

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Many great folks in the UK!

Impressed by the lengths you'll go to to avoid paying scalpers!

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Mwahaha "underground scalping rings"

@KameraShy

Жыл бұрын

When is comes to scalpers, airlines are among the worst.

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 😂

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 👍

Lock Jeff in there overnight, and he'd build data from Star Trek.

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.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Heh, my thought exactly. Somewhere not in the US or UK, for sure!

@kancheongspidergaming

Жыл бұрын

Singapore. However i doubt it's that massive compared to Shenzhen (i've seen Strange Parts' video with Linus).

@Jimmy_Jones

Жыл бұрын

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.

I'm looking forward to the pi factory visit

I do have some of the pi prototype cases, a friend of mine is product designer involved with Rpi.

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.

This is the Shop, i always have dreamed of.

I think we lost the plot if we have to cross a freaking ocean to buy a 40$ piece of hardware…

@ktostamuser2

Жыл бұрын

The more funny is you can only buy some kits...

@Cyklonus

Жыл бұрын

And not so long ago they were so cheap...

@stevencommon

Жыл бұрын

"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!"

@ktostamuser2

Жыл бұрын

@@stevencommon this is the result, not the cause

@Demopans5990

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Good video Jeff, actually embarrassed you visited the pi store before me and I live 40 miles away.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Get to it! :)

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Ngl, the subway footage was shockingly good

Ooo they’ve had a revamp, reminds me I need to pop down to Cambridge again. Hopefully it isn’t still one board per customer only 😢

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

It is, unfortunately. Later this year Eben said that should clear up, but right now one per customer.

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???

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no :( I didn't plan any sightseeing days, but I should for next time!

@sebastiansmith41

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Gosh darn it, if I'd known you were local I'd have invited you to the local beer festival!

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.

Jeff: you can get them, they're in stock me: not able to afford the cross pond trip for a RPI4

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.

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"...🤣🤣

That was one helluva shipping charge!

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.

2:24 Red Shirt Pi-Genius! Should have stolen his shirt!

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

Жыл бұрын

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!

@PuntoHowto

Жыл бұрын

@@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 🫡

"For my daughter" ... Okay, Jeff 😉

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

It's is quite soft! My other kids are jealous though... the youngest one gets all the plushies!

My PI 1 is in a case almost identical to the one Jeff says looks like a late 90s case.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

Oh really! I didn't know that was a production case! I like the frosted plastic look

@jmr

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffGeerling I think the case is third party. Next time I pull it out I'll take a picture.

You rock Jeff !! Love this content !!

Jeff I have 150 pi 4’s installed in TV transmitters (at remote sites) to check in or control the encoders, exciters, and power amplifiers. I had to switch to pi400’s because I couldn’t get the 4’s

2:12 lol it's a baby tom scot

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.

@KameraShy

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

A UK meet-up would have been fun.

@JeffGeerling

Жыл бұрын

I think it must be done next time!

A great place, so glad it lives! Cool!