CBC News and the Raspberry Pi

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 08:46:22PM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > If they were to make ATX/mATX/ITX form factor, would the price be
> > different?  I mean, this is for educational and development purpose,
> > so putting it in an old computer case (motherboard replacement)
> > would be okay, no?
> 
> If they made the machine in an ATX/mATX/ITX form factor the price
> would have to be different (higher). Bottom line as a printed circuit
> board gets bigger it gets more expensive. Further on several levels I
> don't see how this gets you anywhere, the power connector on a normal
> ATX power supply isn't compatible with the Raspberry Pi, ditto video
> connectors, etc...
> 
> If I were proceeding with this RIGHT NOW my first choice would be to
> build a custom case from scratch. My second choice would be to get the
> likes of a 3.5" external hard drive case and  adapt that (frill holes
> in the front of the case, run short jumper cables to the Raspberry Pi,
> and solder in a short adapter to the power connector).

I think price will be go down.  It needs special connectors and special
case, purely because of its special small size.  If they make it in
standard form factor, then they can put standard connectors.  And, we
can put them in any old computers which we have plenty of.
-- 
William
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