Slashdot Mirror
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ Promises Better Performance, Starts at $25 (venturebeat.com)
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is adding a new device to its suite of miniature computers for industrial and enterprise customers. From a report: The charity today unveiled the Pi Compute Module 3+ (CM3+), successor to the two-year-old Compute Module 3 (CM3). The Pi Compute Module 3+ comes in four variants, starting at $25. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is derived from the CM3 board but offers better thermal behavior under load. That's possible because of the Broadcom's 64-bit BCM2837B0 application processor, which was also used in last year's Raspberry Pi 3B+, and 1GB of LPDDR2 RAM. The difference between the four variants resides in their storage limits. The CM3+ Lite does not offer a built-in eMMC Flash, whereas other variants include 8GB ($30), 16GB ($35), and 32GB ($40) of eMMC Flash. These eMMC flash chips are more reliable and robust than normal SD cards, the foundation claims.
Has Rasberry Pi upped their game in terms of sound quality yet? Also can you play HECV on a raspberry pi? These are the things that are keeping me from making one into an entertainment center.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
The best thing about the Raspberry Pi is really the fact that has basic IO communications allowing people with basic Electronics Skills to be able to make rather complex devices. In a world where everything is soldered and shipped as a black box unit. Having a device which will allow us to make such a device ourselves is welcomed.
Now the Rasberry Pi, is good for a prototype system, I would recommend Arduino microcontrollers for more of a complete job (depending on its complexity) but the microcontrollers are cheaper and often offer the power for a lot of jobs.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
How about radiation-hardened models for cubesats?
Not really. The need was clearly there at the time it took off. Unfortunately, it was filled by these people with a really badly engineered joke. I mean, no native Ethernet, sound is crap, critical part of the SoC datasheet is unavailable (gpio characteristics, e.g.), they do not know elementary things like naked chips being sensitive to light, don't even get me started about the insane boot-chain, etc. The whole thing screams "amateurs".
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Perhaps you might want to actually look into the facts before spouting utterly incorrect suppositions. A quick search of Companies House and two minutes reading of the financials show that less than 25% of the staff earn more than £60,000 a year and the highest paid person at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the 2017 (last year will full published accounts) earned less that £150,000 in the year, on a little over £28,000,000 in turnover. Over at Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd. Eben Upton takes no salary and his wife Liz (who runs communications) earned £38,984 in the year and they paid out just over £11.5K in expenses to Dr. Upton. Assuming that "the executives who run it" are the highest paid people there, they hardly seem to be making themselves "rich". In Silicon Valley that would be considered a substance wage.
If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?