Raspberry Pi B+ with rev.2 proto board
July 17th, 2014UPS dropped off three Model B+’s I ordered yesterday morning from Element14 just before 7pm – so I can now join in the Raspberry Pi Model B+ fun!
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What I Like:
- Four USB ports
- 2A power input
- switching regulator
- first 26 GPIO pins are the same
- more GPIO
- four good mounting holes
- uSD socket
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How do Rev.2 “plates” (add-on boards) fit?
I’ll spend a lot more time with my B+’s in the near future, but the first thing I had to try was my EZasPi prototyping board – I wanted to see how much overhang there would be due to the changed position of the GPIO header:
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You can clearly see the overhang on the left above.
The new GPIO connectors causes previous generation add-ons to shift over the USB/LAN sockets about 9mm past the edge of the new Raspberry PI Model B+ printed circuit board.
Here are a couple of more views of the shift:
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I downloaded the latest NOOBS, and tomorrow I’ll fire up my new Pi’s.
This will be fun.
