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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 1st Production Board

• Announced: 29th Feb 2012 - Start of Sale Only
• 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
• The batch was delayed several weeks due to the RJ45 network connector being substituted for the wrong part

Raspberry Pi Beta Production Board

The Rpi beta board (model B)

• 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) )

SerialNo:	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#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 (also spotted here..)!

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

Raspberry Pi Alpha Board

RPi 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

RPi 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

Raspberry Pi Concept 2006 edition

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

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.