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Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by zokier » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 12:46 PM UTC

idlewan wrote: post #3

I could see this being a really interesting way of having a slim and upgradable raspberry-pi-powered tablet . Year after year, you could upgrade the SoC and memory while keeping your case+screen+screeniopcb+batterypcb+battery.

You might be interested in EOMA-68 project. They have similar ideas, albeit using proper HW instead of RPi

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by zokier » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 12:48 PM UTC

milliams wrote: post #10

How would people compare this to Improv? http://makeplaylive.com http://aseigo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/introducing-improv.html

First impression: Improv has still all those bulky connectors on it. Second impression: It costs twice as much as the RPi module.

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by fit2rule » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 12:50 PM UTC

I'm a little disappointed that this isn't a compute-addon for the rPi that gives it some serious calculation power. Ah well .. guess I'll stick to the IMX platform for that ..

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by fhars » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 12:56 PM UTC

Maxious wrote: post #5

Kind of like a modern swyft card, eh? http://hackaday.com/2014/04/06/vcf-east-the-swyft-card/

No, not at all. The swyft card war more or less just a ROM cartridge for the Apple II

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 12:59 PM UTC

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Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by makomk » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 1:00 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #12

milliams wrote: post #10

How would people compare this to Improv? http://makeplaylive.com http://aseigo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/introducing-improv.html

First impression: Improv has still all those bulky connectors on it. Second impression: It costs twice as much as the RPi module.

I think those connectors are on the detachable baseboard, not the processor board.

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by chrisBob » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 1:01 PM UTC

The SODIMM form factor is interesting. I know in this case they are just using it because the connectors are easy to come by, but are there any examples of a computer designed to fit in a RAM socket and do processing rather than just statically storing the memory information?

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by vidarh » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

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There's pretty much zero chance of that.

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by brucehart » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 1:07 PM UTC

chrisBob wrote: post #17

The SODIMM form factor is interesting. I know in this case they are just using it because the connectors are easy to come by, but are there any examples of a computer designed to fit in a RAM socket and do processing rather than just statically storing the memory information?

This is a somewhat common form factor for embedded processor development boards. Critical Link has a whole line of products like this: http://www.criticallink.com/product-cats/system-on-modules/ .

Re: Raspberry Pi Compute Module

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Post by maguirre » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 1:10 PM UTC

It's about time they put some FLASH on-board. SD card has proven time and time again an unreliable medium. You never know if the device would boot up after a "dirty shutdown"