Actually I was scouring the RPi forums yesterday, and the announcement. the $30qty100 price is worse than the Model A, and the SO-DIMM connector is $2+ (I have not looked for a better price yet), however a LOT of I/O gets exposed.
They were also talking about many undocumented features and modes on those I/O's, and the possibility of using the camera and display lanes as 1Gbps links for SATA, faster USB etc.
Unfortunately the dev kit's price has not been announced yet (or at least I could not find it) but there was reference to the dev motherboard costing "much more" than the dimm, and that the dimm will be > $30 in low quantities - even worse, it may initially only be offered as an expensive dev board + dimm bundle, which will not be available until June.
A very interesting development!
I'll be making boards for it
I wonder what other chips, whose name starts with a 'P', company name starting with a 'P', will show up on some of them...
A very interesting development indeed. So who will be the first one to come up with a four socket back plane? First socket, the Rasberry Pi, the second socket, the new Prop16, the third socket, 8Gb RAM, and the fourth socket??? And of course who will be the first one that will create the control software for this miniature powerful device, interesting indeed.
Gumstix was making little boards like that with ARM chips on them many years ago (I still have one of them somewhere) but they seem to have dropped the DIMM connector on their current offerings.
Gumstix was making little boards like that with ARM chips on them many years ago (I still have one of them somewhere) but they seem to have dropped the DIMM connector on their current offerings.
For the past few months somebody has been push adds at me for an ARM on a DIMM module. Some newer ARM SoC though. Sadly I don't recall the company or product name. Shows how well advertising works. But the price was about 39 dollars.
@Clock Loop, Not sure if you seen this thread or not, http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/155307-8-x-8-LED-Matrix-Help-Needed but I was wondering if you have connected anything like this up to the Pi yet. Everything I have found shows the Pins in a Column/Row format. The one I have is 2 columns of 8 pins, one on each of 2 sides.
EDIT: Although I have not built anything spectacular yet, I was able to set my Pi up to access from my Laptop so I only need power and the wifi dongle on the Pi. It is kind of nice not having to use my 7 inch RCA monitor.
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I suggested to Bill that he get cracking on these things:)
Clock Loop, nice pic of their dev board.
Actually I was scouring the RPi forums yesterday, and the announcement. the $30qty100 price is worse than the Model A, and the SO-DIMM connector is $2+ (I have not looked for a better price yet), however a LOT of I/O gets exposed.
They were also talking about many undocumented features and modes on those I/O's, and the possibility of using the camera and display lanes as 1Gbps links for SATA, faster USB etc.
Unfortunately the dev kit's price has not been announced yet (or at least I could not find it) but there was reference to the dev motherboard costing "much more" than the dimm, and that the dimm will be > $30 in low quantities - even worse, it may initially only be offered as an expensive dev board + dimm bundle, which will not be available until June.
A very interesting development!
I'll be making boards for it
I wonder what other chips, whose name starts with a 'P', company name starting with a 'P', will show up on some of them...
Ray
As I recall they were much more than $30, so I never ended up using them.
Frankly, I will probably keep using a mix of Model A / B / Compute, as the Model A is significantly cheaper when I don't need more direct RPi I/O.
Of course as I deep-dive the Broadcomm manuals and they document currently undocumented features, my usage pattern may change
EDIT: Although I have not built anything spectacular yet, I was able to set my Pi up to access from my Laptop so I only need power and the wifi dongle on the Pi. It is kind of nice not having to use my 7 inch RCA monitor.