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Raspberry Pi 1st Production Board

 * Announced: Yet to be! (as of 17th Jan 2012)
 * Credit-card Format
 * Initial 10k Batch (All Model-B's) Manufactured in China (Jan/Feb 2012)
 * Should look identical to the Raspberry Pi Beta Board below (except GPIO header will not be populated).
 * Nokia/Qt Development group has donated vouchers for 400 RPi units for developers

Raspberry Pi Beta Production Board

 * Announced: December 2011
 * Credit-Card Format
 * Manufactured in UK
 * Produced 100 PCBs
 * Characteristic feature of hand-modded correction to PCB
 * See the blog post which includes a video explaining how the production units will differ from the beta boards.


 * Pre-production board (beta board) PCB, topside
 * Pre-production board (beta board) PCB, underside
 * Pre-production board vs credit-card

eBay Auction
10 of the completed Model-B boards were auctioned on eBay (Started on 1st Jan 2012) ) Board #7 was anonymously (and generously) donated to Centre for Computing History (also spotted here..)!

Board #8 Owned by Tech Blogger, Paul Maunders, see his blog for details

Raspberry Pi Alpha Board



 * Announced: August 2011
 * Large Format for debugging (Model-B)
 * Populated with headers for GPIO, JTAG, DSI, CSI, as well as switches and LEDs for I/O testing.


 * Alpha prototype board, underside

Raspberry Pi USB Prototype Board

 * Announced: May 2011
 * The "Computer On A USB Stick" Format
 * Included built-in camera
 * HDMI one end and single USB the other
 * Introduced the RPi Foundation to the world (any earlier links appreciated), featured by BBC Online Video.

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Raspberry Pi Concept 2006 edition

 * Vero-board Prototype & PCB Version
 * Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller clocked at 22.1MHz

Video

 * BBC iClick's Peter Price asks whether a £15 computer can solve the programming gap (6 minutes, 3 June 2011)
 * Raspberry Pi's David Braben talks to BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones (2:28 minutes, 5 May 2011)
 * Raspberry Pi community tutorials on YouTube

Audio

 * Podcast of a phone interview with Eben about the project and the motivations behind it (15 minutes long.) (3 June 2011) Transcription here.