Raspberry Pi A+ Details Leaked

mikejuk writes Despite trying to keep it secret, a major Raspberry Pi retailer has published some details of the upcoming model A+ Raspberry Pi thanks to a product page that went live early. The board layout looks different and is much smaller than the model A or B+. Judging from the photograph, the A+ board encompasses the four standard mounting holes, which makes it approximately 56x65mm — the model B+ is 56x85mm.

The key improvement is the new 40-pin GPIO socket, which makes the model A+ fully compatible with the HAT expansion standard. This means that any new HAT expansion cards should now work with the A+. It also has what's likely a connector for the yet-unreleased Raspberry Pi touchscreen. Another welcome change is the micro SD slot. One downside of the A+ is that it still has only a single USB 2 connector.

Comments

Raspi Ripoff

[mnt]

Oh, still has that DSI connector one cannot use because of missing software. And has a CSI connector for those 2$ cameras that are sold for 25$. I thank the Raspi for kicking off the ARM revolution, but now (after four non overclocked pis that died without warning) i simply hate it. I have moved on to boards that have better power filtering, overcurrent protection, tens of gpios more, sdcard interfaces that dont trash your card and work with any card model and all that at the same cost or cheaper.

Re:Will it have the same garbage CPU?

[BitZtream]

rpi is fast enough to do many tasks

A few basic tasks. Saying many is pushing the definition of many.

it is small

Compared to what? Its not really that small, there are certainly smaller in the same class and for less money. Realistically though, for experimentation its exactly the wrong size. For requiring a pin header to do anything, it should be way smaller, and its too small to do anything directly on the board. They picked essentially the exact wrong size.

cheap

Again, compared to what? In its class, its not that cheap. Its average at best, a bit pricey if you have to wait for it since you can get cheaper ones on a slow boat from china for better prices. This comes up every time some fanboy tries to make out like the Raspberry Pi is worth a shit. Its not. Stop trying to pretend its got good value. Its not the cheapest and the hardware is fundamentally flawed from the start because apparently making a minor rev to the board takes 5 years or more.

widely available

Is it? After waiting several years for it to finally get to the point where it wasn't constantly out of stock everywhere, I moved on. Perhaps its widely available now because anyone else who matters did as well.

well documented

Bullshit. The GPU is STILL locked down, and thats the part of the device thats actually useful. Broadcom released some specs a while back about the GPU that everyone went ape shit over ... but wasn't useful for actually doing anything and nothing at all actually came to fruition from it.

well supported.

Well supported? What? Seriously, what are you talking about? A bunch of random idiots on some forum that don't know jack shit about the hardware or the software does not make it well supported.

Just stop trying to pretend the Pi is awesome. It was an awesome idea before it came out, everything since then has been horrible. Production delays, lack of supply (Seriously, how the fuck can you not meet demand for years on end), bad hardware design, closed source GPU blobs that only work on specific linux distros and NOTHING ELSE.

Its crap. Wake up and smell the shit on your nose.