I've just come home after a great session in Norwich. One of the most enjoyable things about this sort of meeting is that you get a wonderful range of perspectives on the Pi. Here's one.
Nev Young explained that he'd already recovered the price of his Pi in reduced electricity costs. His web server (please don't all visit at once!) now runs on a Raspberry Pi, consuming about two watts instead of three hundred. That's the way to save the planet one server at a time. Brilliant!
There were lots of other interesting people there. Too many to mention them all, but they included a solicitor who runs archlinux on his laptop, and is teaching himself Python on his Pi, a retro-game-meister, a developer who is working on what could be a uniquely extensible social game, and of course @stevedp - a fellow Python developer and Pi enthusiast who manages the http://norwichrpi.org/ website.
I did our blinken-bar led demo, but with a new twist. We've just published the first version of a library for the PCF8591, which is the chip at the heart of our I2C analogue board. We've hooked one up to a photocell and written a little Python program to display the light level on a Bar LED. I have to admit to a childish pleasure in seeing the LED respond as I wave my hand above the board.
Here's our post about the demo with video and code, and a report from @norwichrpi (with photos) here.
I was made to feel very welcome, and will be heading back when we have the next lot of boards to show.
