AMA Raspberry Pi AMA - Ask your questions now!

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Tom's Hardware is proud to announce the upcoming guest in our featured Community Series -- ASK ME ANYTHING.

On Tuesday, June 25th through Thursday, June 27th, Eben Upton, founder and CEO of the Raspberry Pi Organization will join us in a live AMA. Have a question about the new Raspberry Pi 4? Now’s your chance to speak with Raspberry Pi directly. Log into the forums to join the discussion and learn about the latest Raspberry Pi news.

This thread will be unlocked, open and live for 24 hours starting at 12:00pm EDT on Tuesday, June 25th. Questions will be moderated and supervised by Tom's Hardware Community Manager, Joshua Simenhoff, as well as our full team of moderators.

Eben Upton, Founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi
Eben Upton created the Raspberry PI single board computer to help children learn about computer programming and inspire a new generation of engineering talent. He takes direct inspiration from Acorn’s BBC Micro computer, which helped students and hobbyists learn about computers in the 1980s.

If you're hungry for even more details on the Raspberry Pi 4, you can see it in action for yourself. Tom's Hardware editor-in-chief Avram Piltch tested and reviewed the new mini-computer, and he'll be showing readers its new features and capabilities live on YouTube. Join us Wednesday at 3pm to see exactly what the new mini-computer can do.

Raspberry Pi 4 specs

• SoC: Broadcom BCM2711B0 quad-core A72 (ARMv8-A) 64-bit @ 1.5GHz
• GPU: Broadcom VideoCore VI
• Networking: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz 802.11b/g/n/ac wireless LAN
• RAM: 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB LPDDR4 SDRAM
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5.0, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• GPIO: 40-pin GPIO header, populated
• Storage: microSD
• Ports: 2 × micro-HDMI 2.0, 3.5 mm analogue audio-video jack, 2 × USB 2.0, 2 × USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Camera Serial Interface (CSI), Display Serial Interface (DSI)
• Dimensions: 88 mm × 58 mm × 19.5 mm, 46 g

Ask Me Anything Rules

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• Please join us on this date to throw your questions into the mix and ask the Dr. Eben Upton what you've always wanted to know!

Is asking questions about the basis and aims of the raspberry pi foundation off topic in this thread?

 

[ebenupton]

If you can pass the message it would be great if the Jam community to be involved in these discussions.

I will do that. Out of interest, could you perhaps post here some things you think we should be doing?

 

[ebenupton]

What kinds of Industrial applications are you seeing the Raspberry Pi hit the sweet spot for?

Signage, thin-client desktops, industrial control, automation and (particularly) monitoring. Particularly monitoring because the barriers to entry are lower: you can deploy a monitoring overlay over whatever systems you already have, and get added value without worrying about interop.

With the regular Raspberry Pi certified and dual display ports on the Pi4B is the Compute Module still in demand for new industrial users or is the expectation that the Pi4B will become their primary platform.

I think it will be a mix, as it is today. Compute Module is attractive to people who want:

• On-board eMMC storage.
• Form factor flexibility.
• The full range of interfaces (e.g. dual CSI, dual DSI).

A lot of people start off thinking they want to build a CM-based design, but end up concluding that adding a HAT to the standard product is a better approach.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Well that's all folks! The Community Team would like to once again thank our guest, Eben Upton. We got a fantastic set of questions and answers, so thanks to all who participated!

If you're looking for more Raspberry Pi coverage, make sure to check the home page daily. We plan on publishing plenty of tips, tricks, and project ideas as the software develops. Until next time!