Sorry, thatвЂ™s just how I view it from an engineering perspective having made hundreds of electronic computing projects. The would allow for simple connections on the back of a HDTV that has USB and HDMI all together in the rear recess. If it were my design, IвЂ™d move the SD card to the side and put HDMI and Mico-USB together on the opposite end of the USB and Ethernet. This design while very very impressive for size, suffers from a lack of I/O foresight. I miss the original USB stick, that is what captured my attention. I was so looking forward to a pass-through design where most used connections for I/O run in a straight line though the board. If HDMI and power had been at that end, it would вЂњflowвЂќ better for wiring and mounting.As it stands, every connection of this will be a right angle cable mess. IвЂ™m not too thrilled with it due to the SD card being at the opposite end of the USB and Ethernet. IвЂ™ve made a drawing of the I/O component placements for all to see, it is here: OK, thatвЂ™s enough for my amateur spotting, I could be wrong on many things. IвЂ™ll just hope I donвЂ™t see the whole board yet and theyвЂ™re in corners outside. IвЂ™m sure many folks would get slightly larger board with some holes to embed in some system.

Now what I donвЂ™t see there: any button, maybe for reset (is it really needed though?) and no mounting holes, that kinda bigger concern. For what looks like 4 layer board it is indeed very impressive design. :) I guess the 2Г—13 is for general I/O and the smaller for JTAG. OK, nice material for speculation, I can tell what is basically where, the SD card socket is really huge :) Then I see the micro USB (fused, nice), Ethernet, double USB, maybe the audio jack, analog video on top? Then IвЂ™m not sure what is the header/connector on bottom and the other two groups of pins witch fine pitch, something like for FPC? And of course there looks to be some 2.54 mm headers which would be so good for hacking.

Wow, that looks really nice, maybe even too small for the work involved :) Drop into the forums to have a look and to get a feel for the size of the real thing. See if you can guess what my desktop wallpaper is now!Д®dited to add: One of our forum members has mocked up a 1:1 scale card model of the board, and put it next to a quarter for scale, with some components like those youвЂ™ll see on the real board laid on top. Because we canвЂ™t predict whether or not there will be any, we canвЂ™t give you a firm release date, but Pete has engineered what you see here nigh unto death, so weвЂ™re keeping our fingers crossed for an easy ride. WeвЂ™re in the process of making a very small initial test run of what you see above (to preempt the obvious question, no, you canвЂ™t buy one), and will move to larger production when weвЂ™re happy that there are no early-life bugs. This design is almost certain not to change, but we have to reserve the right to make changes if the boards are poorly yielding in manufacture вЂ“ so please be aware of this if youвЂ™re making a case now. You canвЂ™t tell where the ports are from this picture, but I should have measurements and precise placements for you next week some time (Pete Lomas, who has done the insanely fiddly work on this, is away for the week for some richly deserved time away from Pi and to try to recover whatвЂ™s left of his eyesight). The Raspberry Pi is exactly the size of a credit card вЂ“ 85.60mm x 53.98mm.

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