Sorry it’s been a while since we posted, but we’ve been very busy getting things ready to get these boards to you!  Bit of a late announcement, they’re all sold! If you missed out on this initial release, we will have another register of interest to gauge further numbers for the next release in the near future.

We’ve updated the FAQ with some of your questions: forums, documentation and expected delivery.

A big thank you to all those who have made this project possible by ordering the Gooseberry Board!

Update: Forum is live! Check it out here at: gooseberryboard.co.uk

This is it! We’re finally ready and confident to release the Gooseberry Board to the general public. Sorry for being vague about dates but we didn’t want to disappoint with promises we can’t meet.

500 boards are up for grabs and are strictly 1 per person!  You will be preordering these boards so as to raise capital which will allow more people to get their hands on one.

The expected delivery date for these boards will range from 2-6 weeks. The time scale is large so as to accommodate delays such as the London Olympics.

Demand is expected to be high, however, if we do not sell all 500 boards in the next 3 days, we will allow multiple orders. This will be announced if it does happen!

• Thank you !
• The Gooseberry Team

After lengthy deliberation and many Gooseberry boards running copious calculations,  we’ve finally decided on a winner! The time it has taken to decide is testament to just how many original creative ideas you guys have submitted. There were no less than 40 ideas which all deserved to be winners and it pained us to have to whittle it down, but what is done is done!

Thank each and every one of you who entered this competition! We hope that you will soon have the opportunity to make your ideas a reality !

The Winner

Ryan Heatherly

You’re our winner Ryan! We love your video. The quality is truly fantastic and we can  imagine it must have taken you a huge amount of time. Really creative and fun!  Congratulations!

Runner Ups

Nacho Vidal Franco

A great idea Nacho and very well presented! We were impressed with the clarity in which you explained how you would go about making your idea a reality!

Sebastian L

“Id like to use the Ra… err, Gooseberry, in a quadrocopter drone setup, which hopefully enables the drone to actually be independent in computer and camera controlled flights. I´ll try to hatch my kinect sensor in the setup for real 3d surround calculations. That being said, replace cpu and ram only by stronger cpu and more ram (who needs a r-pi)”

Sounds awesome! An automated  helicopter which you program to complete a number of tasks would have been my dream as a kid!

Danny Hall 

“I plan to send a Gooseberry into low earth orbit. First test run will be a weather balloon to 100,001 feet to test various functions. If an iPhone has been to 100,000 Some one… and i mean ME!!! Is sending a gooseberry and the end goal of the test run to play angry birds via remote on a gooseberry that’s in almost in space!”

Might do this one ourselves! Be sure to send us the footage!

We’ll be in touch with you lucky guys soon!