The Raspberry Pi is six years old now, and in that time it’s become the most popular single board computer. Over these last few years, the Pi has improved from a relatively anemic board based on a smartphone SoC to a surprisingly fast board that’s loaded up with some of the best software and the best community support we’ve ever seen. There’s an awful lot you can do with a Pi, and the continued support of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has enabled millions of people to get their hands on a cheap computer that runs Linux. It’s great.
Now it’s your turn to ask the engineers behind this tiny little computer what’s going on in the world of Pi. We’re having a Hack Chat this Friday, and you’re invited.
Our guest for this week’s Hack Chat will be [Roger Thornton], principal hardware engineer for the Raspberry Pi, where he oversees design, test, compliance, and production for Raspberry Pi products. Previously, [Roger]’s work for Broadcom included being part of the team that characterized and tested numerous SoCs including the BCM2835/6/7 found in various Pis. He also has experience in the smart home and IoT fields from working in a consultancy where be helped bring chips to market.
[Roger]’s most recent work was announced today; the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is the latest in a long line of Pis, and while it’s not the octocore ARM monster with SATA and PCIe and Gigabit networking and 4G that the power-hungry have been clamoring for, it is more capable than its predecessor and still only costs less than forty bucks.
This is also the second time [Roger] has been a guest on our Hack Chats. You can check out the transcript of the 2017 chat here.
During this chat, we’re going to be discussing the future of Raspberry Pi products, Pi events around the world, and a question on the minds of many: where you can buy Pi Zeros in quantity. You are, of course, encouraged to add your own questions to the Hack Chat. You can do that by leaving the questions as a comment on this Hack Chat’s event page.
Our Hack Chats are live community events on the Hackaday.io Hack Chat group messaging. This week it’s going down at the usual time, on noon, Pacific, Friday, March 16th Want to know what time this is happening in your neck of the woods? Have a countdown timer!
Click that speech bubble to the right, and you’ll be taken directly to the Hack Chat group on Hackaday.io.
You don’t have to wait until Friday; join whenever you want and you can see what the community is talking about.
Is he going to point us to the source code of the Broadcom chip?
Looking at the specs on the new board and the benchmark differences and they don’t really excite me.
yes but this seems to be just an incremental upgrade between proper upgrades, there’s surely no point in doing anything serious until they do the model 4?
I’m hoping theres something brewing in parallel. If I remember correctly…a few generations ago there was a speed bump followed by a new design about a month or two later.
Funny how “everything PI” coincides with HB’s “DIY Electronics”* which is mostly Raspberry PI.
*Never-mind DIY electronics is vaster than programming micro-controllers.
wut
Humble Bundle has their mostly Raspberry PI book bundle titled “DIY electronics” while electronics has more to it than microcontrollers.
I had hoped an revision update would have added traces for the third dsi lane (dsi1_dp2 & dsi_dn2 to pin 11 & 12 on the dpi connector) for possible use with old ipod/iphone displays.. and a way to switch boot from usb/ethernet hub to micro usb2go.
edit: pin 11 & 12 on the DSI connector
They did add pxe booting so I am happy. The other improvements are very welcomed as well such as near 300mbs NIC and 5ghtz WiFi.
PXE? I missed that. That’s freaking awesome.
PXE was there with previous Pi3 too, just not enabled by default see this post from 2016 https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-ii-ethernet-all-the-awesome/
Nice! Thank you! :)
what about the olinuxinos? much more open
But why would I want to use one of them instead of a Raspberry Pi. You mean just because they are more open?
When can we buy Pi Zero in quantity? It has been forever and still limit 1 :-(
How about some power management in v4, so we can run battery powered things efficiently?
What are the plans for a USB-C port? (Maybe to replace the micro-usb power connection)