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As the Pi Foundation builds on the fantastic start by the first “B” board, the second iteration of the beloved Raspberry Pi is hitting the shops right now. If you haven’t got yourself a Raspberry Pi yet, this is the one you should try and get your mitts on.
It’s not a massive upgrade, according to the Foundation at least, but, actually, it’s got a few new things that could make it worth holding out for. Firstly, it can now be powered by a USB hub, which is pretty handy, and it also comes packing new mounting holes and additional I/O expansion options.
The new board also carries bug fixes and the alike, and should be shipping out to punters once the original model B boards have run dry (apparently at least one person has received a version 2.0 board already). With competitors like Via pumping out similar things, mainly Android-powered, is the Raspberry Pi still the homebrewers board for coding or messing around with? At least it’s British, and the original. [Raspberry Pi]
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Actually Sam, the version 1 can be powered by a USB hub as that’s how I power mine. I don’t think I’ll be upgrading, though those screw holes do look pretty sweet
According to the Pi blog it’s made changes specifically to allow that. Maybe you got lucky? Something to do with fuses and power loading.
The resetable fuses protecting the USB outputs have been removed. This feature was implemented on some later revision 1.0 PCBs by replacing the fuses with links; revision 2.0 permanently implements this modification. It is now possible to reliably power the RPI from a USB hub that back feeds power, but it is important that the chosen hub cannot supply more than 2.5A under fault conditions.
Added emphasis mine. Previously some people were having issues powering their pi from a hub, but since mine was a decent quality one I had no issues.
“those screw holes look pretty sweet”
Yeah it’s an iPhone level spec bump
I found out that I can power mine with a powered hub by accident. It’s useful to know it can be done though.
Yeah even i’m going to give you a like for that!!
Screw holes….mounting….pumping..hey! what kinda outfit are you blokes running here?
A tight, skimpy one, possibly in rubber or PVC
I’ve been thinking about getting one of these for a media server, might hunt down a version 2.
I still can’t get my bloody original Pi to work. I shall persevere though… martyr that I am… They’ll sing ballads about me… probably.
What’s the problem? several of us have them and I’m sure we’d be glad to assist if we can.
Thanks. I’ve tried installing various O.S.’s on it but I have problems with the keyboard. Depending on the build you either press a key and nothing happens for a couple of secs, then it works or it just crashes entirely before the first run. I’ll have another crack at it tonight and give a better report back as I’ve not actually touched it for a while.
I’ve been wondering if you have to use specific keyboards with it.