Dave, who also has a pre-release camera module, has been busy building the next payload for his Raspberry Pi balloon flights. His previous Pi was given as a gift to Eben Upton of the Foundation just recently and Dave is now using a model A, together with the camera module, to create the payload. The model A has been stripped of the majority of it’s ports (such as the USB, composite video and HDMI) to lower the weight. Read more about it here.
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A bit extreme maybe….A good example of how little the CPU needs to run though. Maybe a version 3 Pi could take inspiration….
I wonder how small they could make the Pi if they didn’t have to have anything connected with any of the ports. Would be tiny, presumably.
Yeah, something like http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3376 😉
Heh. Yeah, that would be ideal. 😉 Seriously, though, I wonder if the Foundation will go to something that small. I believe at the moment they don’t have any plans for a model C, so I guess it’ll be at least a year before they move onto something else.