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Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced
An anonymous reader writes "The Raspberry Pi finally saw a release on February 29 this year and is thought to have sold 200,000 units, with a million expected to ship before the year is over. That's a lot of tiny PCs, but it's also been an opportunity for owners to feedback any problems or tweaks they'd like made to the board. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has taken the feedback on board and today announced a revised design is being put into production. The new Raspberry Pi, known as revision 2.0 PCB, is expected to start shipping in the next few weeks. The revision includes a number of changes, but is essentially the same board. To summarize it includes a new reset circuit, a replacement for the reset fuses allowing for more reliable USB hub power, two GPIO pin changes for JTAG debug support, four redundant GPIO signals have been removed, and a new connector has been added for attaching a range of boards including a clock or audio codec. Two of the more easily noticeable changes include a fix that stops the HDMI connection interfering with certain operations of the Raspberry Pi, and the addition of two 2.5mm mounting holes to allow for easier mounting."
In Wales by Sony to be exact
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925
who where what when now?
Can you use this with Visual Studio? As I just love the newest VS.
I think your question should read: "Can Visual Studio work with open source compilers and tool chains dedicated to ARM via plugins or simple modification?"
The day we start altering our hardware to work with an IDE is the day I go home and put a bullet in my head.
So now that I ordered my Pi, paid for it, and have been waiting for months for it to even ship, they're improving it? Will those of us still waiting get the new board or what's left of the old versions?
You can use Visual Studio to produce code that runs on the Pi, but not run Visual Studio on the Pi.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I can't wait to not see this one.
Yes, it can. How do you think Intel's compiler integrates into Visual Studio? You just need to write the plugin for integration and make custom build rules.
My problem with the Raspberry Pi is that it's not truly open - there's a binary bootloader and graphics driver, and the SoC is undocumented. If I wanted to write my own operating system from bootloader to windowing system, I'd have to do a lot of reverse engineering. That's kinda why I'd prefer the Beagle Board.
(Disasbuse me of this notion if I am wrong.)
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
Still no sign of doing the sane thing of aligning the ports. That means still no clean cases for Pi2.
I appreciate that being cheap is the name of the game for Raspberry, but I wouldn't call this board Debian non-free friendly :)
If you can convert them to US dollars.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Hello, I'd like a plastic case, from anyone, that doesn't cost anywhere near the price of the networked/motherboard/CPU powerhouse that is Rasberry Pi. We're talking about molded, (or whatever), plastic. Relatively precision plastic I will grant you, but a small plastic box is The Specification. It doesn't even need to look pretty, just more functional than the cardboard box now in-use. -Thanks, from my entire budget for Rasberries this season.
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
> the addition of two 2.5mm mounting holes to
> allow for easier mounting.
Has the problem with the USB drivers been fixed?
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After waiting for 11 weeks for my RaspberryPi to ship, then getting an email that they would need many more weeks to supply the orders, they announce a 2.0 revision? How about fulfilling your orders first? They announced to the world months ago that they are producing thousands of units per day and yet I still don't have my order. I really don't like how this company is working.
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Great. This means mine will finally be on it's way. With my luck, I'll get the last shipment that goes out of the now "obsolete" version. I'll then need to order again for a new 2.0 and wait months for it to ship.....
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I just bought one a month ago. And NOW they release an updated board? Com'n, you couldn't warn us it was coming???
I am happy that the Raspberri PI has updated the UK to version 2.0. UK v 1.x was getting long in the tooth.
After not being able to get the first, when may I expect to be unable to get that one?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Really doesn't matter to me since I had to sign up on a waiting list six months ago, then wait ten weeks after payment for shipment then just recently received an email stating that the order would be delayed. If I can't get the first revision a second one is simply meaningless to me.
once more into the breach
I have been waiting for the A board to be released. I want the 1/2 power use and all the useless stuff removed.
Please guys? release the A board soon! I have an alarm clock project and a car stereo project that is dying for the A board.
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per the article is 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' but why not just look for the two new holes?
There's so much I love about this. Seeing British-designed products being produced in Britain. It just feels right. I love the educational aims of the RPi. I love the hacker culture around it. I love the ethical sourcing and the informal PR of the RPi foundation. It's all so good.
And then... it's produced by... Sony. Yuck.
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Wondering why I ordered mine months ago and it may not ship until next month. I am sad. I should get a 2.0 board for my woes.
...rather than simply a layout revision. While I like my rPi currently, I'd love to have more RAM, a faster processor, and a better graphics chip. Of course doing so would probably cause the price to blow past the current $35. Maybe they can add a revision "C" to their lineup?
Visual Studio = Microsoft, closed-source stuff and just plain evil with lawyers
Raspberry Pi = Linux, open-source stuff and just happiness with rainbows
Leave your nerd card at the door and never come back here.
Now all the blogs can add a new story on how to connect an arduino to your Raspberry PI v2 ..
Visual Studio barely runs on my i7.
I mean come on, what can you even do with this board that you can't do with a Mac Mini?
You can't fit a Mac Mini into a cigarette box and run it off of 5 volts all for less than $100.
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I gave up trying to get a RaspberryPi long ago. I was looking forward to it for months, I had such plans for it, but it's one hurdle after another to actually buy one. I check back every few months to see if anything changed - today I looked again and what do I see in the availability column? "Awaiting delivery". Wonderful..
I'll just go back to tinkering with a picaxe instead.. it was cheap and easy to get and easy to make it do cool stuff even though I know nothing about about electronics. It may not run linux but it plugs into my ubuntu netbook and can be programmed with basic. It's actually fun, unlike the Pi which so far is just an exercise in frustration.
qemu+wine are ----> over there. Although a hog like Visual Studio would take ages to even start.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Since the RPi *is* a computer, I assume you meant an x86 computer.
Where exactly can you find one for $35 that has GPIO pins, runs linux, and has HDMI, USB, and gigabit ethernet?
Some suppliers are shipping immediately, others are on back order for some unknown reason.
So the first thing you can do is buy 17x as many of them. You also get GPIO pins for hardware projects.
These are not difficult to get now, except if you order from RS. They're the only supplier that has failed to deliver one within a week. CPC and Farnell are pushing them out pretty quickly now. Not sure about Maplin.
Yes, but how many nuggets will that be?
+1 troll.
useful I/O, and all the external connections COMING OFF ONE EDGE OF THE BOARD
It's slightly bewildering how the Pi has such a massive following. There are many other competing devices (many of which have cases and aren't just boards) which cost roughly the same price. And there are devices which are truly open, which the Pi is *not*.
Ultimately it comes down to marketing and PR... and Slashdot.. which loves the Pi.
But clearly you're going to get more bang for your buck with a product built outside the UK, where wages are some of the highest in the world. And you're going to have a hell of an easier time developing for a platform which uses truly open standards.
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They've made a new board but kept the positions of the USB/Ethernet misaligned. Good one.
Apple host their own websites on servers running Linux. Can they not afford better software from themselves?
Have they yet replaced the defective closed-architecture chips that required binary-only drivers?
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We get your point but please don't shoot yourself: if you think it through altering hardware to work with IDEs (or similar) is almost the norm.
It can. There is a clang plugin for Visual Studio which can generate ARM binaries. If you have the correct headers and build project settings, it will generate binaries for the RPi. However, it will not use clang for syntax highlighting, so if you write C99 / C11 or GNU-flavoured C++ then the syntax highlighter will become confused, as will the autocompletion logic. There is also nothing on the RPi that speaks the (undocumented?) protocol that VS uses for remote debugging, so you won't get to use the integrated debugger. So, while it will technically work, there it won't really be an IDE anymore, just a pretty crappy text editor (once you break autocompletion and syntax highlighting, it will be quite frustrating to use). You'd be better off with Vim and the clang plugin - at least then context-sensitive autocompletion will work...
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Having worked at a company where our PCBAs were made in England (Leicester) with a 50%+ reject rate at the dock due to quality issues I can debate the statement about the production lines.
I won't buy sony. period.