Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced 155
An anonymous reader writes "The Raspberry Pi finally saw a release on February 29 this year and is thought to have sold 200,000 units, with a million expected to ship before the year is over. That's a lot of tiny PCs, but it's also been an opportunity for owners to feedback any problems or tweaks they'd like made to the board. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has taken the feedback on board and today announced a revised design is being put into production. The new Raspberry Pi, known as revision 2.0 PCB, is expected to start shipping in the next few weeks. The revision includes a number of changes, but is essentially the same board. To summarize it includes a new reset circuit, a replacement for the reset fuses allowing for more reliable USB hub power, two GPIO pin changes for JTAG debug support, four redundant GPIO signals have been removed, and a new connector has been added for attaching a range of boards including a clock or audio codec. Two of the more easily noticeable changes include a fix that stops the HDMI connection interfering with certain operations of the Raspberry Pi, and the addition of two 2.5mm mounting holes to allow for easier mounting."
UK 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
I am happy that the Raspberri PI has updated the UK to version 2.0. UK v 1.x was getting long in the tooth.
Ewww (Score:4, Funny)
There's so much I love about this. Seeing British-designed products being produced in Britain. It just feels right. I love the educational aims of the RPi. I love the hacker culture around it. I love the ethical sourcing and the informal PR of the RPi foundation. It's all so good.
And then... it's produced by... Sony. Yuck.
Re:Dammit (Score:5, Funny)
I just bought one a month ago. And NOW they release an updated board? Com'n, you couldn't warn us it was coming???
No. [wikipedia.org]
Re:What about development tools? (Score:4, Funny)
Visual Studio = Microsoft, closed-source stuff and just plain evil with lawyers
Raspberry Pi = Linux, open-source stuff and just happiness with rainbows
Leave your nerd card at the door and never come back here.