Woldff, I agree with you that probably they won't change the base PCB motherboard. First of all because it is too risky.

Instead, also adding components is not more difficult than remove. As a matter of fact I think they pose limits that we don't now yet, that dives the opportunity to have 3000+ devices for example including a LCD, with a different connector, with a specific board presoldered on it and so on.

Enrico

Enrico Miglino wrote:

 

Woldff, I agree with you that probably they won't change the base PCB motherboard. First of all because it is too risky.

There are two statements in the linked discussion that make me think otherwise:

I'd like to see a ram socket like a laptop uses DDR3

Enrico,

I love the items you consider for customisation, simply because the items mentioned could be used as part of a Home Automation customisation.

I would add to your list a built on Z-Wave communication module.

Dom

Hi !

Did you ever think about building such the inexpensive , very small computer  ( carefully sealed ) for marine purpose ?

Price of the product is here a real factor. Laptops consume a lot f power and are not lasting enough to withstand harsh sea environment conditions.

Friend of mine killed 5 laptops during one and half year sailing trip.

Greetings

Sounds like an opportunity for hardware device makers to embed RPi into more products.

I agree with much of the conversation above, that it ultimately all depends on pricing.

Can you give us an idea of pricing?

Take Frederick's idea as an example, as that seems representative of a very reasonable request a company might make:

Frederick Vandenbosch wrote:

 

A customisation I'd like to see is a low(er) profile RPi2:

• 2x 1 USB port iso 2x 2ports
• GPIO pins at 90° angle
• no ethernet port

(In short, a Raspberry Pi 2 Model A ...)

Cheers,

-Nico

My biggest problem with my Raspberry Pi's are as follows.  I have two model "B" and one Pi-2.  As I run a junk call blocker, a OpenVPN server, Motion Detection surveillance software, and a Weather Station on my Pi's.  They are on 24/7 causing corruption of the SD cards after several months.  I plan to use a laptop drive connected via USB though a powered hub to run the second partition that holds the linux system.  This is a relatively simple hack and would add about 60ma of power consumption.  I would love to see either an add on or an re-designed Pi with a build in "Low" power hard drive or a long lasting SSD.

WHERE IS USB 3.0?    Change the controller chip so this will be possible.

I'm going to keep bitching about this until this happens!!

I have ALL USB 3.0 device, and their dogging along since you wont incorporate this change!

Not so sure, Paul

They speak of Re-configure, that means leave untouched (or may mean so) and incorporating that means add parts over the PCB as well as change the PCB. But maybe they accept also PCB modifications ... It's only specualtion

The video of the press conference seemed fairly clear: They will redesign the board as needed to add whatever functionality the customer desires. That's why its a minimum of 3000 units.

I expect that there will be some fairly radical re-designs but the chances are that we will never see them as they will be propriety designs, kept exclusively for that customer.

@ Ted Mieske: That's not on the cards, all redesigns will feature the existing range of Pi SOCs.