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Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced

Posted by timothy on from the like-gangbusters'-hotcakes dept.

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."

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  1. And also it's now made in the UK by Dave+Whiteside · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Wales by Sony to be exact
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925

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    1. Re:And also it's now made in the UK by pnot · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In Wales by Sony to be exact
      http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925

      Nice! That would have been a far more interesting headline than "RasPi gets mounting holes and minor bugfixes".

  2. Re:What about development tools? by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. It's not truly open... by Dimwit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.)

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    1. Re:It's not truly open... by tommeke100 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Check out this tutorial for OS development on the Pi : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/

    2. Re:It's not truly open... by Dan+Dankleton · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's not completely open - but that was never the idea of it. The idea is to get something into the hands of kids to help them learn programming.

      Bare metal programming is possible though, and the system is fairly open.

  4. Bad USB drivers. by Ostracus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has the problem with the USB drivers been fixed?

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    1. Re:Bad USB drivers. by rephlex · · Score: 3, Informative

      I submitted that. No, the problems with the USB drivers have not been fixed but software modifications subsequent to that post have improved the situation slightly for all Raspberry Pi's. Also, the revision 2 boards can supply more current to USB devices which means more of them will work when plugged in directly to the Pi. Unfortunately USB will most likely never work well on the Raspberry Pi due to the sheer difficulty of fixing the vendor-supplied drivers for the Synopsys USB controller which remain very buggy. I doubt the Raspberry Pi Foundation will ever acknowledge this.

  5. What is this?!? by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  6. UK 2.0 by drwho · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:still can't get the last model by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    cancel your order and get it from MCM.. in stock and I'm getting them 2 days after ordering.

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  8. Ewww by DeathToBill · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  9. Re:Dammit by pnot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just bought one a month ago. And NOW they release an updated board? Com'n, you couldn't warn us it was coming???

    No.

  10. Re:Still Waiting... by marcop · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Order from Allied 2.5 months ago. After hearing about the USB and Ethernet reliability issues I decided to cancel (literally this morning). Bought the Rikomagic MK802II instead. I should get it in 2 weeks too.

    Here's a side by side comparison of the MK802 vs the Rasp. Pi.

    http://youtu.be/YKNPnBE-ouI

    From my understanding, the Pi still beats the MK802 on price and GPIO (addressed in the video).

  11. Re:What about development tools? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.