A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon (pcworld.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: A smaller version of the popular Raspberry Pi 3 will go on sale in a few months. Raspberry Pi is developing a new version of its Compute Module, a single-board computer that plugs into specific on-board memory slots. The new Pi will be more like a mini-computer inside a computer, and it won't come with a power supply. The Compute Module will have similar circuitry to that of Raspberry Pi 3, a wildly successful computer that can be a PC replacement. But it will be smaller, with the memory, CPU, and storage embedded tightly on a board. While the Compute Module will have a 64-bit ARM processor like the Pi 3, it won't have Wi-Fi, Eben Upton, founder of Raspberry Pi, said in an interview with IDG News Service. The Compute Module could ship as soon as this quarter, Upton said. It will be priced similar to its predecessor, the 2-year-old Compute Module, available from reseller RS Components for about $24. The older Compute Module is based on the original Raspberry Pi. Like Raspberry Pi 3, the new Compute Module will work with Linux and Microsoft's Windows 10 IoT Core, Upton said. A Compute Module Development Kit, in which the Compute Module can be slotted for testing, may also be sold. The Development Kit could have multiple connectivity and port options, much like the Raspberry Pi 3. Last month, the biggest manufacturer of the Raspberry Pi, Premier Farnell, was acquired by Swiss industrial component supplier Daetwyler Holding AG for roughly $871 million.

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Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yay!

Assuming only one mummy. Almost mentioned Arduino

[raymorris]

I almost mentioned Arduino in my post. Absolutely sometimes Pi are used when they are overkill and an Arduino would be well suited. In fact, I have four Arduinos (including two $4 chips and two full Arduinos), amd had no reason to buy a Pi until yesterday.

Having said that, my earlier post said a Pi could run a haunted house. An Arduino could run one mummy.

Putting a Pi in each prop would be overkill. On the other hand, a design with 8 Arduinos in 8 props communicating with each other might be better done with one Pi.

There are of course a large number of different devices of varying power, complexity and cost. You probably don't want to learn all of them, though. The following four devices cover most needs without being too much over powered or underpowered:

a) Relay
b) Arduino
c) Raspberry Pi
d) Full-size PC/server

Fortunately the last two both run Linux, so that's only one system to learn, and relays should be easy to learn.

Great

[JanneM]

I just finished a small Raspberry Pi cluster, with two RPi 3 compute nodes and an Rpi 2 front-end node. Not because it has such great computational capabilities - it doesn't - but because it's a low-cost way to get a "training system" that I can abuse without messing up anything on the real cluster I also use.

These new Pi's would be even better; could have a single backplane that the nodes slot into. Ideally you'd be able to route both power and ethernet through the backplane as well, but I don't know how feasible that'd be.