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Carol Haynes

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Raspberry Pi ...
« on: May 26, 2012, 04:28 PM »
Got my Raspberry Pi this morning. Not sure what I am going to do with it but it looks like a bit of fun.

I was a bit surprised to see it arrive with absolutely no documentation - not even a single side of A5 with a diagram explaining the ports. Most are obvious but there are a couple of ribbon headers on the board which look interesting - off to the forums to see if anyone can enlighten me further.

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Re: Raspberry Pi ...
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2012, 08:56 PM »
I'm on the list for mine, got an email saying the first 4000 people can order theirs - unfortunately I wasn't included  :(

Ribbon header is for GPIO, (General Purpose Input/Output), like the Arduino - so you can hook up sensors, switches, etc.

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Re: Raspberry Pi ...
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2012, 08:08 AM »
There is a second single row of pins that don't seem to be documented at all - they don't even appear on the circuit layout on the website.

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Re: Raspberry Pi ...
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2012, 02:34 AM »
There's the double row header connection which is the GPIO and there is also two rows for JTAGw communication.

The JTAG is used for test access, hardware/firmware debugging and firmware loading - not something the average user of the board will be doing.

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Pic from Wikipedia.

On the schematics for the Rev.B, one row is used for the LAN controller, (connector P3, sheet 2, ref A4), and the other is for the CPU/GPU and is connector P2, sheet 4, ref G2.

Unless you specifically want to bang the hardware directly, there's not much point in worrying about them.

On a side note, the choices are hotting up: Raspberry Pi faces challenge from Android-based rivals
« Last Edit: May 28, 2012, 02:44 AM by 4wd, Reason: DUH! It says CPU/GPU on the pic.... »