RPi HardwareHistory
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: Yet to be! (as of 30th Jan 2012)
- Credit-card Format
- Initial 10k Batch (All Model-B's) Manufactured in China (Jan/Feb 2012)[1]
- 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[2]
Raspberry Pi Beta Production Board
- Announced: December 2011[3]
- Credit-Card Format
- Manufactured in UK
- Produced 100[4] PCBs
- Characteristic feature of hand-modded correction to PCB [5]
- 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) [6])
| SerialNo: | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7[7] | #8[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[7] (also spotted here..)!
Board #8 Owned by Tech Blogger, Paul Maunders, see his blog for details[8]
Raspberry Pi Alpha Board
- Announced: August 2011[9]
- 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[10]
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
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/369
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/422
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/389
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/470
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/482
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/503
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2012/01/13/raspberry-pi-8-first-photoshoot/
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/78
- ↑ http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/264
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