Merry Christmas!
Eben and I are taking a couple of days away from the website, so we can spend some time with our family. There are a few new treats around the place for you this Christmas – have a look at the About page, play with our new forum software…and enjoy these new high-res pictures of the beta boards.
Raspberry Pi beta board, top. Click to enlarge.
Raspberry Pi beta board, back view. Click to enlarge. (Note that the SD card reader hasn't been soldered into place yet on this one!)
The video I took on Friday at the factory hasn’t been edited yet because I’ve been busy database hacking all day, trying to get the new forum all peachy; it’ll be up after the holidays.
Have a great Christmas, everybody; we’ll see you in a few days.
64 comments
max1zzz
Nice, now i have something to keep me going over Christmas (apart from all the present’s etc :-) )
father christmas
Marty christmas everyone!
Fred
This is fantastic! :)
Chris
you gonna tell us about that red wire? from where I’m standing it looks like your vreg isn’t grounding properly and it’s wired to another ground
SergeantFTC
I was wondering the same thing.
TinWhisker
If the VReg GND was iffy – why route ‘under’ the board, rather than to the other VReg?
The only spots I can really see is either for a beefier GPIO GND or the Composite out is a bit noisy.
Otherwise, the link is for pull-down reasons – maybe to disable/enable bits for testing.
Jann
Well christmas wasn´t that good this year, but that´s some good news :D
Uhm, there is a SD Card Slot missing by the way ;D
Andy
I notice R-Pi is back on the BBC news feed as nearing launch. Roll on launch day…
Montekuri
Have a nice holiday and enjoy the family.
And a happy 2012 for all of you!
Oliver Beck
Congratulation!
A great (or little ;-) ) piece of hardware!
Neil Brown
Thank you for all the updates. :-)
Have a good break!
hajj_3
Looks nice :) Hopefully in a few days maybe you could take photos from the side of the board so we can see the connectors.
David
Fantastic work, well done and hope it does really well. Have a great seasonal break – you earned it!
Bill Cumming
oooh! Like the pics
Can’t wait to get one!
Marry Xmas Raspberry-Pi’ers!! ^_^
Jack
Mate!
Can’t wait to order some (while in UK) and take them back to Australia to muck around with!
DeliciousRaspberryCake
I do still wonder about the little bomb wire, the one showing in the latest video
nelson
That is actually a fake bomb defuse wire, it instead triggers an instant 200 kilo raspberry explosion, truly dirty bomb style… not really just a workaround for a routing problem with the beta boards, you wont find it on the production model
Jamie
Same here. What IS it??????
vladhed
Thanks for the present! Wishing Liz and Eben and the rest of the team a blessed and restful holiday
greg jaskiewicz
Weehee, can’t wait till I can order one (or 4) from the website !
In the mean time I’m playing with my own stuff, http://www.youtube.com/user/gryzman?feature=mhee enjoy ;)
Adam
The board is looking awesome I think the work you are doing is fantastic I can’t wait to get my hands on one. I hope you are getting tonnes of stock because I think you will be selling thousands and thousands of these
JamesH
First batch is 10k, but next batch if demand is there can be produced very quickly.
JustACat
Merry Christmas!
Jos
Where are the MOUNTING HOLES? If you want to screw this PCB on something (a little case e.g.) how to do that?
JamesH
No room for them on this first board – search the forum for more infrormation
Jessie
You don’t, later revisions are supposed to have mounting holes. If you want to attach this to something your options right now are clips for the edge of the board, hot glue, or double sided adhesive tape.
Jeff
I am really waiting for this board to be avail to purchase. Who is manufacturing the board, its very neat.
Petr
the RasPI is just GREAT.
Best regards to Eben, Liz and all the team members.
Greetings from the Czech Republic.
Petr
meltwater
The Czech Republic are always at the top of the list on Google Trends for the Raspberry Pi, must be very popular there.
Petr
I am looking many times a day from different IP addresses. When new article is posted, I am sending the link to the RasPI site to my friends. So maybe this. Otherwise I do not see activities about RasPI around me…. Anyway, can’t wait to get RasPI on my desk.
RaTTuS
merry [hic] christmas
richard clatworthy
Merry Christmas to you all. This is the best Christmas present I could have in a virtual world – and the real one (this has been written on 25-Dec). I have been an IT professional since 1979 and this bit of kit has excited me like a schoolboy. I cannot wait to get one and try to port SuSE Linux to it so I can network the Raspberry to my other Linux boxes. All the best for 2012.
Rachelle
Merry Christmas!
Very nice job!
When i can byu it?)
Lars T. Hansen
At shop.raspberry.com (www.raspberrypi.org > Shop link in the menu bar redirects to http://www.raspberrypi.com)
Lars T. Hansen
Edit: Sorry! shop.raspberry.com should had been http://www.raspberrypi.com
Mark Warner
I am so excited about this and am going to order 3 as soon as they are released. I am going to network them and make lots of really cool things and stuff like that.
Mark (an inspired 50 and 3/4 year old)
Mathijs
Merry Christmas to everyone at Raspberry Pi! You’re doing a great job, may everyone reading this have a lovely day.
caelow
Ah looks great, very excited to get my hands on one of these.
hunternet93
One of my Christmas presents this year was mmmmoney for buying a RP model B. I’ve got plenty of good project ideas already!
Michael C.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ;D Please make the Raspberry PI fast finish.
(Sorry i,m from Germany and my English is bad.The Radio http://www.technobase.fm has make a News about the Computer.)
feuerrot
Will you be at the 28C3?
Syzygy Kid
what a great idea!
Harry
The pictures are very blured….send me an sample, and I’ll make some real high-res-pictures for you ;)
p.s. great project!!!!
Harry
ProDigit
Will these pins be available on the regular boards, and what can be done with them? (looks like a IDE harddrive connector)…
Roger Wolff
What pins? Left top? Those are called the GPIO pins. Hobbyists can do various things with that. No pins will be provided on the board s that you buy.
The other pins are the JTAG connector. JTAG provides a debugging interface for programmers. I’m not sure if pins will be populated there.
SiR
Good to see the pi fully decorated for Christmas!
Fernando Cassia
The lack of a second Ethernet port kills it for ethernet router/wireless Pt-2-Pt link administration. PLEASE develop a Dual-Ethernet version!. Pleaseeeeeeeeeee
eben
You can always add a second Ethernet via the USB port. If we see enough demand, we may consider adding one as standard, but it’s a lot of effort for something that isn’t our core market.
John Benson
It just looks so tinkertastic… I can’t wait to get one…
George Hong
Hi,
Where is the Broadcom chip?
liz
It’s PoP, or package on package, which means that two chips are stacked together. Here, the Broadcom chip is stacked under the big chip in the middle that says Hynix – that’s the RAM. You can’t see the BCM2835 because it’s underneath, but I assure you it’s there!
George Hong
Thank you Liz for the quick reply. Can’t wait to get some for my engineering team to play with.
Anthony
Looks nice. Kudos to the team.
Still needs mounting holes though.
Stevep
Try this mounting strip – looks as though it can be cut into small pieces
http://www.rapidonline.com/Tools-Equipment/Pcb-Mounting-Strip-205mm-34-0918/?sid=725e6dfa-9ed4-49ec-9f41-2cee901c66d1
logar0
Where is the CPU? I only see a Hynix memory chip. Under it?
JamesH
Under it. The memory is soldered on top of the CPU – called PoP. Package on package.
Esh
Why does the USB port stand out from the board so much? Will it stay like that in the production version?
JamesH
Difficulty in fitting it all in. And what you are seeing now is in effect the production board – or very close indeed.
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Rune Kyndal
i understand that these boards are as bare bone as possible.
saving components, PCB space, layers and all that.
but seriously. what is the thinking behind having the plugs scattered all around the
board? looks to me like they could pretty easily have been place alongside the hdmi connector?
also no mounting holes?
im going to use at lease one board as media center.
im hoping for that XBMC project.
but looks like i will have to reposition ethernet and usb plugs
to make it fit nicely in a box?
great work though! im sure next version will be even better
take my money already!!! ;o)
happy new year
/Kyndal
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