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Here Comes Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board
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The updated 2.0 Raspberry Pi circuit board would be made available over the next few weeks.
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Thursday, September 06, 2012:
After selling around 200,000 units of the credit-card-sized Linux machine, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has now announced the updated 2.0 Raspberry Pi circuit board. The revised design is being put into production too. It is expected that the new Raspberry Pi, known as revision 2.0 PCB, would be rolled out in the next few weeks.
Six months after its launch, the low-cost computer gains mounting holes for the motherboard. These changes enable the device to be powered via one of its USB ports.
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"The only way you’ll be able to tell which version you have is when you receive it, hook it up, and type 'cat/proc/cpuino' in a terminal. If the code that appears is 4, 5, or 6 then you have the new board, otherwise a 2 or 3 signifies the original board," Geek.com said in a report.
In a blog post, Eben Upton, executive director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, shared that the Raspberry Pi circuit board now incorporates some changes made at the behest of users.
"A lot of people are asking when revision 2.0 boards will appear in the wild. They’ll be filtering out over the next month as the last stocks of the revision 1.0 at each distributor and in each geography are exhausted. I’m aware of at least one person who has received a revision 2.0 board already (from Farnell, in the UK)," he explained.
Upton also added, "We don’t believe that the changes are large enough to make it worth 'holding on' for revision 2.0, unless you have a specific requirement to add an audio codec or you need mounting holes for some industrial application."
A quick look at the upgrade:
The ability to power a Pi with a powered USB hub;
A fix for an issue that caused problems when Pis were connected to TVs by HDMI;
A new reset circuit;
The aforementioned mounting holes, to help mount Pis for various applications
Monika Bhati, EFYTIMES News Network
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