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==Raspberry Pi 1st Production Board == | ==Raspberry Pi 1st Production Board == |
Revision as of 05:12, 16 March 2012
Hardware & Peripherals:
Hardware - detailed information about the Raspberry Pi boards.
Hardware History - guide to the Raspberry Pi models.
Low-level Peripherals - using the GPIO and other connectors.
Expansion Boards - GPIO plug-in boards providing additional functionality.
Screens - attaching a screen to the Raspberry Pi.
Cases - lots of nice cases to protect the Raspberry Pi.
Other Peripherals - all sorts of peripherals used with the Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi Model-A Full Production Board
- Announced: Not Yet (as of 16March12)
- Board will now have 256Mb of RAM rather than the originally planned 128Mb[1]
- Foundation will probably produce a small Beta batch before handing manufacturing over to RS and Farnell
Raspberry Pi Model-B Full Production Board
- Announced: Not Yet (as of 16March12)
- Manufacturing and Orders will be made through RS and Farnell
- This means a much higher volume of units will be produced and made available.
- Additional detail is available about the manufacturing and distribution agreement here video interview between Eben Upton and SlashDot here (28/02/12).
Raspberry Pi 1st Production Board
- Announced: 29th Feb 2012 - Start of Sale Only[1]
- Credit-card Format
- Initial 10k Batch (All Model-B's) Manufactured in China (Jan/Feb 2012)[2]
- Should look identical to the Raspberry Pi Beta Board below (except different SDCard holder).
- Nokia/Qt Development group has donated vouchers for 400 RPi units for developers[3]
- The batch was delayed several weeks due to the RJ45 network connector being substituted for the wrong part[4]
Raspberry Pi Beta Production Board
- Announced: December 2011[5]
- Credit-Card Format
- Manufactured in UK
- Produced 100[6] PCBs
- Characteristic feature of hand-modded correction to PCB [7]
- 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) [8])
SerialNo: | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7[9] | #8[10] | #9 | #10 |
Date: | 11-Jan-2012 | 11-Jan-2012 | 10-Jan-2012 | 10-Jan-2012 | 09-Jan-2012 | 09-Jan-2012 | 08-Jan-2012 | 08-Jan-2012 | 07-Jan-2012 | 07-Jan-2012 |
Sold For: | £3,500 | £2,150 | £2,257 | £1,550 | £1,040 | £1,000 | £989 | £1,020 | £930 | £1,900 |
Board #7 was anonymously (and generously) donated to Centre for Computing History[9] (also spotted here..)!
Board #8 Owned by Tech Blogger, Paul Maunders, see his blog for details[10]
Raspberry Pi Alpha Board
- Announced: August 2011[11]
- Large Format for debugging (Model-B)
- Populated with headers for GPIO, JTAG, DSI, CSI, as well as switches and LEDs for I/O testing.
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.
Raspberry Pi Concept 2006 edition
- Vero-board Prototype & PCB Version
- Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller clocked at 22.1MHz[12]
See Also
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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Post-Launch - And breathe…
- ↑ We’ve started manufacture!
- ↑ Nokia has Raspberry Pi vouchers for 400 Qt developers
- ↑ Manufacturing Hiccup
- ↑ Populated boards: an update on where we are
- ↑ We have PCBs! BETA
- ↑ (hand-mod) More on the beta boards
- ↑ We’re auctioning ten beta Raspberry Pis!
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Beta board bought by anonymous bidder and donated to museum
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Paul Maunders - Raspberry Pi #8 First Photoshoot
- ↑ The alpha boards are here!
- ↑ Raspberry Pi – 2006 edition
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