Living overseas has the disadvantage of having to pay high costs for shipping. I bought 4 of them and only paid the 4 quid postage option. The DHL price was as much as the modules. I am in no rush as I will be away for a short time so the cheapest option is fine.
That’s a sad fact of life here in Romania too. 24% tax, plus around USD$12 customs agency fee, plus storage fees if the papers aren’t perfect, plus a minimum of $25 shipping if you want anything in less than 10 days (via DHL or UPS). If you opt for postal deliver (10-22 days) there’s an unbelievably creaky system of little glass windows, hand written forms, manual inspections and stamps and fees. …and I’m told that this is all an improvement over a few years ago.
The effect on the growth of any tech industry or maker movement should be obvious. If you find anything in-country at less than a 50-100% markup over the US or UK prices, you’ve found a bargain.
I was just complaining that 10 pounds seemed very heavy for a dongle. Most of mine weigh less than an ounce.
They must pack a lot of technology in there.
Wait, we are clear here that that Squeebee was referring to £10 and not 4.53592 Kg.
Why not go for the Dragonboard, it has Wifi, BLE, and GPS on board plus a couple of other goodies as well …
Looks like the Dragonboard is $75/board, and Win10 support is only ‘planned’. I can get at least two RPi 2’s for that price, including the elusive wifi.
I agree, the price of an RPI2 is hard to beat, if at all. For those who are in need of more power and more goodies and don’t need to purchase through different channels (extra shipping costs) it might be an alternative.
For Windows 10, as far as I understood this was always and still is on the radar, at least the site states the promising words ‘coming soon’ …
Unobtainium.
Is there still only one working raspberry pi wifi dongle (for win10IOT)
I almost added this to an element14 order:
http://nz.element14.com/element14/wipi/dongle-wifi-usb-for-raspberry/dp/2133900
But I am thinking maybe it doesnt work (yet) with w10IOT?
Anyone know?
Still? No one has found any other that works?
No other that I’m aware of. But the official Pi dongle has worked pretty flawlessly for me.
My little Bluetooth keyboard and touchpad? Not so much. 
Ah ok. I’ll get the official ms one.
I might put a little Microsoft “.m” after my name (mtylerjr.m) also, to thank Microsoft for all the cool stuff they do. It’s a great idea andre.m. Let’s see if we can get that to catch on and get more people to do it, so we can show our support for microsoft, and encourage them to keep up the good work.
it’s an official Raspberry Pi foundation one actually :
They were cheap so grab a few at the same time as I am sure you will have a few Pi projects in the near future. I bought 4 and have 2 Pi’s in progress (slow though)
Dave…
BTW. Microsoft released an Insider Preview for Windows 10 IoT Core few days ago
Insider Preview Build Number 10531.0
What’s New
•Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview September 25 Release
◦Web Server (WebB) additional features (Change computer name, change password, start processess)
◦Secure boot has been enabled
◦An improved Node.Js expereince including: a unified installer for all required components, support for Serial library, and support for Cylon library with a new Cylon project template.
◦Expanded compatibility with pure python libraries
◦Support for popular PWM and ADC external chips through the easy to use in-box APIs via ADC and PWM providers on Github: GitHub - ms-iot/BusProviders: Repository for Windows IoT Core Bus Provider Libraries
◦Updated base OS build
◦Bug Fixes
New ISO 10556 released on Windows Iot for Raspberry PI2.
http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/ReleaseNotes.htm
What’s New
Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview October 15 Release (10556)
[ol] Serial support on Raspberry Pi for TX and RX pins
High performance GPIO driver option with > 100x improvement
Arduino Wiring Project System for Visual Studio
Support for the TPLink WiFi dongle on Raspberry Pi2
Updated base OS build
Bug Fixes
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Sweet!
@ dobova - Nice !!!
@ GHI - In the release notes it mentions an error that may happen if the HAT is using GPIO0 or GPIO1.
Are these pins used on either the cream or the fez hat (and others) ?
Actually, hat’s are supposed to use GPIO 0 and 1. The release note is saying that those pins are not available for your apps to use because they are reserved for internal use by the hats and firmware. Previously, they were erroneously left accessible.
See : GitHub - raspberrypi/hats regarding ID_SC and ID_SD pins.
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Anybody know if this is specific to one part#? A quick google brought up several options.