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."
Bad USB drivers. (Score:4, Interesting)
Has the problem with the USB drivers [slashdot.org] been fixed?
Re:Still Waiting... (Score:5, Interesting)
Order from Allied 2.5 months ago. After hearing about the USB and Ethernet reliability issues I decided to cancel (literally this morning). Bought the Rikomagic MK802II [rikomagic.co.uk] instead. I should get it in 2 weeks too.
Here's a side by side comparison of the MK802 vs the Rasp. Pi.
http://youtu.be/YKNPnBE-ouI [youtu.be]
From my understanding, the Pi still beats the MK802 on price and GPIO (addressed in the video).