Understood also. I would put 16GB of flash mem on board and increment it as technology and cost permits. At present that could add maybe 5 to 8 USD more to the price. The removable storage allows different configurations simply by swapping out a component and not having to download it, but I can see how having the storage on board can be advantageous. Salvador

I was recently using a National Instruments cRIO controller that was designed  to operate "Zone 2 hazardous locations, in ambient temperatures of -40 ≤ Ta ≤ 70 °C" ( or 158 °F). Very expensive. Dell announced their Dell Edge Gateway 5000 ( Dell IoT solutions | Dell  ) which is also temperature hardened. Could the Raspberry Pi Customization service come up with an environmentally rugged controller based around a Raspberry Pi?

Je ne sais pas si les compagnies sauteraient sur l'occasion, mais c'est aussi une bonne source de brainstorming. Par exemple les compagnies seraient peut-être inéressées par un raspi 2 avec un sim card et une camera et un boitier et un micro et un haute-parleur qui permettrait de faire des réunions video sur l'internet.

Those who buy 10s of thousands of units tend to be retailers  who want to ship a standard unit. If they wanted to do a supa-*** Pi they may very well find them selves at a higher price than the dozens of boards that already provide those facilities as standard

also Paul, the organisation that created a given super Pi will be stuck maintaining the H/W and the software drivers for the customers and also keeping it in sync with the main RPi software stack

John Alexander wrote:

 

also Paul, the organisation that created a given super Pi will be stuck maintaining the H/W and the software drivers for the customers and also keeping it in sync with the main RPi software stack

True... But we're bound to get end customers on here with issues/questions.

Doesn't sound like fun supporting someone's Supa Pi especially if you don't have one to hand and wondering what he was on about taking about widget XYZ

Any way I think this is really meant to be for commercial suppliers.. question would be what products you could build that would require a custom Pi

One thing I've noticed is that Gumstix have been very quick to jump on the bandwagon of customisation and tell every body why they think their stuff is better.

http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1fc1c495c07e7f784af9903ec&id=6c9611876d&e=ddcb601767

The Gumstix form factor is rather good but the support of mine at least was less so ... All very interesting !

I would love to see a RPi made for robotic purpose, for that it sould have a smoothed and really protected 5V intput, as well as wifi built in (but that is an extra).

Really a 5 Volt input that will tolerate a shitty power rail on the input would ramp this SBC to a all new level !!