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Your Breakdown of Raspberry Pi Customization

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You might have just seen the official joint announcement from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and element14 regarding an exclusive new customization service for the Raspberry Pi, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject.

 

Bulk Customization Services

The facts are these:

 

You can now open a dialogue with element14 about creating a Raspberry Pi that's tailored to specific needs, on orders of 3,000 units or more. You can reconfigure the board, add new functionality, add or remove features, change the memory configuration; pretty much anything besides tinkering with the GPU and related software. A full breakdown of the service can be found here: Raspberry Pi Customization Service

 

 

Cooking Up a Custom Raspberry Pi

Clearly this is aimed squarely at OEM manufacturers, suppliers and bigger companies due to the minimum order quantity, but such places are still populated by engineers and makers who'd be the ones that determine just what a customized Raspberry Pi would require for specific needs.image

 

So we thought it'd be valuable to get the element14 community's opinion on this new service.

 

Will companies find a lot of use for it, and what might they need a custom Pi for?

 

Which kinds of customization are likely to be the most popular? Expansion of the device, or minimization?

 

Give us your predictions on the future of element14's Raspberry Pi Customization Service below, and who knows how it might evolve.

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  • The possible reasons that a company producing a product with a PI embedded will need a custom version are two:

     

    1. Ask for a customisation including more memory and a display (just for example) because the cost-per-unit is higher due the added components but on a basis of 3000 pcs the resulting cost to have all done and not manage the original PI before embedding results in a money saving.
    2. Ask for a customisation removing unneeded pieces just because these implies and extra-cost that will be disperse as the device will be embedded in a product they are creating.

     

    Enrico

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  • The possible reasons that a company producing a product with a PI embedded will need a custom version are two:

     

    1. Ask for a customisation including more memory and a display (just for example) because the cost-per-unit is higher due the added components but on a basis of 3000 pcs the resulting cost to have all done and not manage the original PI before embedding results in a money saving.
    2. Ask for a customisation removing unneeded pieces just because these implies and extra-cost that will be disperse as the device will be embedded in a product they are creating.

     

    Enrico

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