The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

alphanumeric · 14 Nov 2018

caperjack said:

i take back a comment on Adafruit and there support ,just found there Github site .downloaded lots of sound files to use with my Captive touch board and piano and drumhat ,nothing there yet for the cricket hat.
Adafruit Industries Â· GitHub

Thanks for posting that link, just added it to my favourites. Might actually come in handy.

caperjack · 14 Nov 2018

your welcome, i have this kit [https://www.elegoo.com/product/elego...starter-kit/]i bought it about 2 years ago i think ,just never got into it ,
also the earlier edition of this over a year ago[https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/a...a-jukebox-kit] ,played with it a bit ,lent out the book to the church ministers wife and there 8 year old son to see if they would like to teach him all about the Pi ,she was suppose to get back to me to get the rest of it ,has'n yet ,but im going to go see her soon ,also lent her a old laptop with the Raspbian x86 on it ..

alphanumeric said:

Thanks for posting that link, just added it to my favorites. Might actually come in handy.

alphanumeric · 15 Nov 2018

The new 3A+ is out, New product: Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ on sale now at $25 - Raspberry Pi Woot. Will be buying at least one of those.

Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ - Raspberry Pi

alphanumeric · 15 Nov 2018

Bilge Tank 129 - Raspberry Pi 3A+. It boot. It smol. It heckin good. - YouTube

caperjack · 15 Nov 2018

nice ,i'll save for one,maybe next year

alphanumeric said:

The new 3A+ is out, New product: Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ on sale now at $25 - Raspberry Pi Woot. Will be buying at least one of those.

Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ - Raspberry Pi

alphanumeric · 15 Nov 2018

It's basically a 3B+ with the ethernet and USB hub chip lopped off. Think of it as a Hat format Pi Zero. Full sized HDMI and one full sized USB port. That one USB port should have good throughput, no HUB and no sharing with the Ethernet. I would have liked to see 1 gig of RAM but I get why they went with 512 meg instead. It keeps the cost down. I will be buying one, might be next year for me too, I have other things I want more and only so much I can spend on my next order. I have two A+'s in use here that are doing me just fine.

caperjack · 15 Nov 2018

yeah the 1-gig ram would be what I would like too, its a different size too so a new case would be needed also ,for me anyway,i'm so careless with them ,lol ,if i do put in a Christmas order i just might add it then

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alphanumeric said:

It's basically a 3B+ with the ethernet and USB hub chip lopped off. Think of it as a Hat format Pi Zero. Full sized HDMI and one full sized USB port. That one USB port should have good throughput, no HUB and no sharing with the Ethernet. I would have liked to see 1 gig of RAM but I get why they went with 512 meg instead. It keeps the cost down. I will be buying one, might be next year for me too, I have other things I want more and only so much I can spend on my next order. I have two A+'s in use here that are doing me just fine.

alphanumeric · 16 Nov 2018

In one of the Pi 3A+ threads on the Raspberry PI forum, I saw a mention that the Pi 4 will be all new. They have basically gone as far as possible with the current SOC (System on a Chip). I can't for the life of me find that post now though? So the next new Pi will be really be "new". And it was said that it was already "etched in stone", you'll get what you'll get, when the time comes. I'm actually surprised they said that much. They are so tight lipped about anything "future" planed. And as usual, no hint as to when it might actually be announced and or released.

caperjack · 16 Nov 2018

interesting for sure, it wont be the same though if it gets bigger in size , .and hats and phat and cases dont fit ...

3 raspbian's stretch's to choose from now
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alphanumeric said:

In one of the Pi 3A+ threads on the Raspberry PI forum, I saw a mention that the Pi 4 will be all new. They have basically gone as far as possible with the current SOC (System on a Chip). I can't for the life of me find that post now though? So the next new Pi will be really be "new". And it was said that it was already "etched in stone", you'll get what you'll get, when the time comes. I'm actually surprised they said that much. They are so tight lipped about anything "future" planed. And as usual, no hint as to when it might actually be announced and or released.

alphanumeric · 17 Nov 2018

"I" think the Hat spec will stay the same. And it will have the same 40 pin layout for the GPIO, just maybe more pins added at one end for a new bigger Hat. You'll be able to use what you have now with it, at least I hoping thats how it goes. Arduino does it that way. The basic set of pins are the same layout but bigger better models have extra IO pins added.
I think the big change, the all new part, is a new SOC. New CPU GPU etc. So hopefully, more RAM, which is the most asked for feature upgrade. Plus it's the only way they will get full speed USB, and Full speed Wifi etc. The current bottleneck is everything funnels through one USB port to the SOC. They are releasing zero details as always, and I think the post I saw mentioning the Pi 4 was retracted or deleted? I can't find it in the thread i'm pretty sure it was posted in.

Thats interesting, I checked the downloads the other day when the 3A+ was released thinking new images would be up but they wern't? Will have to sort out which one to use now?