Raspberry Pi - Upcoming board revision

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1929

by thehodge • 14 years ago

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jrockway• 14 years ago

Did anyone ever get an original Raspberry Pi? All I've seen is pictures of it next to the words "out of stock".

RobotCaleb• 14 years ago

I have two. Neither of which have seen power. Too many other projects going on.

freehunter5• 14 years ago

You have two you've never used, while I have 20 week shipping delays for one unit ordered six months ago, and a heap of schematics and already-wired modules to plug into the GPIO sitting uselessly, and a head full of further designs yet.

Goodness. I need to go for a walk. This thread is threatening to get the best of me.

whyenot5• 14 years ago

Yes. I ordered one in late July from Element14. It arrived about 2 weeks later.

I currently have it connected to a webcam and running on solar power.

re_todd• 14 years ago

That sounds very cool. What kind of solar power product are you using? Where can I buy one online?

ajays2• 14 years ago

Do you have a description of your setup? It sounds interesting.

ghostDancer• 14 years ago

That looks interesting , could you share it. Thanks.

chubot• 14 years ago

Cool, I'm also interested in the solar power setup. How long does it last? How do you get the pictures back?

program• 14 years ago

I haven't received mine. Ordered 17 July 2012, despatch expected within 11 weeks but still no feedback from RS.

sounds• 14 years ago

This is really a shame. Another commenter says the same and apparently it turned him off to the RPi in general.

I don't know why RS drops the ball on some orders; hopefully as demand increases another supplier will start offering them for those of us who dislike RS.

petepete• 14 years ago

I did, after rather a long wait (I ordered in early May, and it came in early July). After the excitement wore off I installed OpenELEC and it now sits in my front room, working pretty damn well as a media centre.

freehunter5• 14 years ago

I ordered mine the day after it went on sale. Two months ago I got am email saying it was being shipped out and should be here within 12 weeks. Last week I got an email saying it was delayed another 8 weeks. This really depresses me that they're talking about Rev1 production coming to an end and Rev2 production ramping up when they can't even fulfill their existing orders.

yardie• 14 years ago

Good God! who did you order from? I placed an order with RS in May and got it about a month later. 20 weeks is simply unreasonable. I'd cancel and look at another fulfillment company.

veemjeem• 14 years ago

Should have ordered from element14 -- 4 day delivery time for me. I also heard that mcm electronics is pretty fast too. You should be blaming the distributors, not RPi. There are many distributors, so choose one that doesn't suck.

oliwarner• 14 years ago

Yeah they've shipped tens of thousands of them.

asb• 14 years ago

Hundreds of thousands.

archangel_one• 14 years ago

I put my name down around June/Julyish, it was delivered in early August. Surprisingly faster than I expected.

tlrobinson• 14 years ago

Yeah, I got 3...

abecedarius• 14 years ago

I ordered one in August, that arrived a few days later. Just luck? It was out of stock every time before.

ori_b• 14 years ago

I ordered two about 3 weeks ago from Element 14. They arrived near the end of last week, so about 2 to 2.5 weeks for order fulfillment.

sliverstorm• 14 years ago

I've got one, I've had it for months now.

tomstokes• 14 years ago

The mounting holes alone make this new revision worth waiting for.

It's also nice to see the additional GPIO output which can be used either as an additional I2C bus or used for I2S (digital audio) output. The latter should be very useful for those who want to use the Raspberry Pi as a media center PC as it's trivial to convert I2S to S/PDIF or Toslink (optical).

Finally, I'm glad the GPIOs have been changed to expose the missing JTAG debug symbol. Having proper JTAG support makes low-level development far, far easier.

alexchamberlain• 14 years ago

It's such a shame that the guys at Raspberry Pi can't communicate very well.

This is fantastic news, but where's the picture? the schematic?

There's a massive thread on the future Camera Module. Once a day or so, someone says "Can we have an update please?". The response: "In Development." Snooze.

kasbah• 14 years ago

I think they are doing a very good job considering they have one full-time employee.

KeepTalking• 14 years ago

Update from Allied: They are currently 10 weeks backlogged.

makomk4• 14 years ago

"The SMSC 1V8 power has been disconnected from the system supply."

I notice they don't talk about this much at all, or give credit to the person who figured the issue out (who I believe may have been banned from the official forums for talking about it). It turns out that the high temperatures some people were seeing on the LAN9512 chip weren't actually normal at all; they'd screwed up and connected the output of its internal 1.8V regulator, which wasn't meant to drive external circuitry, to the 1.8V rail. So on some boards (depending on tolerances) its internal regulator ended up providing the 1.8V supply for the entire board and overheating quite a bit.

X-Istence3• 14 years ago

Do you have a source for this? Also is there something that owners of older boards can do (such as cutting the trace?) to make sure their boards don't overheat?

makomk4• 14 years ago

There's an entire thread about it on the Element 14 forums here: http://www.element14.com/community/thread/19236

Unfortunately, unlike some of the other modifications in newer board revisions, there's no easy fix for this for owners of older boards. The level to which boards are affected varies and it's not clear how many (if any, for that matter) have stability problems as a result.

Doesn't help that most people don't actually seem to report when their board doesn't work properly, in part because the moderators on the official forums are quite hostile to anyone mentioning problems.

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