RPi - Anyone used these boards?

Jonathan

Hi All,

I'm ready for desert. Has anyone used these boards?


http://www.100randomtasks.com/raspberry-icing

Or have any other recommends?

Thanks!

Jonathan

User Name

Wow! I didn't even know of the board's existence. But I do now. Thanks!

abecedarian

Only A & B, not B+ compatible.... Too bad.

Heater.

I'm sure they will catch up with the B+ soon. Many suppliers of Raspi boards have been caught out by the B+ upgrade.

Anyway if you want to program a random Propeller board from a Pi we have https://github.com/ZiCog/pi-propeller-load

Mark_T

Interesting board, ditto the thanks for pointing this out.

abecedarian wrote: »

Only A & B, not B+ compatible.... Too bad.

The pinout's the same for the first 26 pins so they probably are compatible electronically - and there are no
tall connectors on the A+/B+ so the cut-out shouldn't matter.

Would be interesting to see if it can be squeezed into HAT form (the RaspPi shield standard
for A+/B+ boards), and whether the EEPROM can be shared as a devicetree ident chip.

[ edit: Looking at the A+ I have it seems the GPIO pin connector has moved along to make
room for a mounting hole, so the board probably doesn't fit on A+ B+ boards after all, or not
without a bit of fudging ]

Jonathan

Well, I went ahead and ordered two. I have two B's so they should be fine. I'll let ya'll know how they work!

pik33

WOW!

I didn't even know it exists.

David Betz

There is also Bill Henning's board of course: http://www.mikronauts.com/raspberry-pi/robopi/

mindrobots

David Betz wrote: »

There is also Bill Henning's board of course: http://www.mikronauts.com/raspberry-pi/robopi/

Just beat me by a minute or two!!

Two thumbs up for Bill's board!

But as always, the more Props, the merrier!!

Bill Henning

Thanks Guys!

FYI: RoboPi is supporting the following platforms: (and has been tested with them)

- Raspberry Pi Model A
- Raspberry Pi Model A+
- Raspberry Pi Model B
- Raspberry Pi Model B+
- Banana Pi
- stand alone operation (needs 5V, PropPlug)

Untested, but should work "out of the Box" with:

- Raspberry Pi Compute Module (connect 5V, GND, TX, RX, GPIO#17)
- Banana Pi Pro
- Banana Pi R1
- ODROID-W (connect 5V, GND, TX, RX, GPIO#17)

More supported platforms early 2015!

(including Banana Pi M2)

prof_braino

"raspberry - icing". Another example that engineers are not so good at cute.

Seems to be popular despite the unfortunate name, there's only one left.

abecedarian

Mark_T wrote: »

Interesting board, ditto the thanks for pointing this out.



The pinout's the same for the first 26 pins so they probably are compatible electronically - and there are no
tall connectors on the A+/B+ so the cut-out shouldn't matter.

Would be interesting to see if it can be squeezed into HAT form (the RaspPi shield standard
for A+/B+ boards), and whether the EEPROM can be shared as a devicetree ident chip.

[ edit: Looking at the A+ I have it seems the GPIO pin connector has moved along to make
room for a mounting hole, so the board probably doesn't fit on A+ B+ boards after all, or not
without a bit of fudging ]

B+ has two more USB ports stacked on the edge of the board, and the USB and Ethernet 'plugs' are mostly flush with respect to each other, so if you're looking at it with the Ethernet jack on the left, there are 4 USB ports to the right, the audio jack has moved over behind the Ethernet jack, composite video has been merged into that jack, and all done so for more "GPIO" and some other slight changes

R-Pi B:



R-Pi B+: