Adafruit have published a tutorial over on their Learning area that will help you hack your Raspberry Pi model B+ to get a much thinner profile. It’s not exactly “wafer-thin” as they claim, but it does give you a Pi which is much shallower. Personally, I think people should just wait for the A+ to come out, but that’s just me. You can see the tutorial over at Adafruit.
It does seem a shame given that one of the benefits of the B+ is that it has FOUR usb ports!
However, presumably an A+ will only have *one* USB port?
Yep, the A+ only has one USB port. That’s what Eben said… during a web seminar if I remember correctly.
“Adafruit have published a tutorial over on their Learning area…”
One of the most useless, gratuitous “articles” ever printed, anywhere. This one of those collection-of-words which masquerades as a tutorial, and undertaken simply because it can be done, not because it adds ANYTHING to the RPi body of knowlege.
It’s VERY hard to undertake, and almost certainly guaranteed to ruin your Pi.
Save youeself a lot of grief, agony and time: place your RPi on a hard concrete surface and give it one blow wit a hammer.
Same results; much quicker.
I never said I thought it was a good idea 😉 A+ is a much better bet
I don’t think it’s that bad, abasalom! I agree that, for the vast majority of people, there’s little point to this mod, but it’s the kind of thing that people like Ben Heck and case-modding types do a lot. And maybe there *are* some situations where a thinner Pi would be useful?
As for difficulty, I’d say its not that bad … no harder than, say, replacing an SD card holder (easier, probably, as it’s not surface mount). But the article is a bit pointless in that those who are confident about undertaking this sort of job wouldn’t really need a whole article and just a photo giving them the idea in the first place would be sufficient.
Anyway, I guess it’s all a bit academic now that the A+ is out!