Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

RE: Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

kingsob — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:15:43 GMT

Can someone help me understand why it is so expensive (compared to the Pi Zero)? I must be missing something here...

Also why is it so big? Its looks to be larger than the Pi Zero, with less functionality...

RE: Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

jemartel — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 17:37:38 GMT

Just received my Compute Module 3 DEV kit, yesterday from MCMElectronics. I was having issue finding new release of Raspian-Jessie that would fit on 4gb emmc....I decided to setup CM3L with 32gb SD with Full version of Jessie with Pixel 1-11-17. After updates are done, I'll retry to load Jessie-Lite onto the emmc. As with all my projects, I want to build this into a Robot. Wished it had a larger emmc....or at least wifi on the DEV IO board

RE: Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

DAB — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:07:26 GMT

Very interesting a capable board.

I could easily see this setup being used for instrumentation designs.

The camera interfaces could do either stereoscopic or multispectral imaging with analysis on board for control applications.

Opening the IO pins provides you with a lot of options for event triggers and control.

One thing I did note, was the heat limitation issues. Evidently they have made compromises with the board design such that the heat dissipation could be an issue. You would probably want to mount a heat sync or provide active ventilation options for the board in a confined space.

The Quadcore version would open up a lot of options for distributed and parallel processing tasks.

Overall, I could see a lot of very neat applications using this device set.

DAB

RE: Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

pettitda — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:04:52 GMT

At $200, the dev kit seems a bit pricey. The two compute modules it comes with only account for $55, so I'm not sure where the rest of the cost is coming from. Is it just the expected volumes which are driving the cost?

RE: Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

balearicdynamics — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:15:00 GMT

I like very much the idea too. I followed this modules by the first one but for my projects I see a series of problems, like the need to assemble them - just for my case - using the development kit. The total amount of the cost arises to more than 200 Euro, this means that it does not replace a couple of traditional Raspberry Pi. Instead in my opinion and agreeing with [mention:7d5ee4caf55f4ccaa8b711eb508ecedd:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] after a prototype has been done it is the worth to use it in a production environment for the better features and the dramatically reduced size. I hope that a project I am working on can go on the market as this will become reasonable to use a module 3 after the prototype has been developed.

Enrico

RE: Your Thoughts on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

rachaelp — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:52:37 GMT

I like the concept of the compute module. If I was designing an embedded product that needed this sort of level of computing power but I wanted my main board to be simple and quick and I not have to worry about layout and routing of high speed memory interfaces then this sort of module is great, and from a software development perspective there is so much out there in the way of resources for the Pi it'll be pretty quick to get a prototype system up and running.

I was looking at the original compute module a few weeks ago and thinking it was looking a bit dated in the lineup and had been neglected for any refreshes previously, so I am very happy with this new version being released.