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This has to be one of the most hacker-friendly companies out there. Kudos!

• A1kmm 14y ago
  It is worth noting that they are an educational charity, not a for-profit organisation. I think it is great that they have released this - and I think that Broadcom also deserves credit for allowing them to release a schematic giving away the pin-out of the BCM2835 SoC - it makes the Raspberry Pi so much more useful to know what the outputs of the system are. This opens up the possibility of trying to work out how to use the unused pins on the BCM2835 based on the names. I haven't been able to work out what the HD pin group does (probably not SATA or PATA based on the number of pins, and HDMI has its own pin group). There seems to be a CAM0 not connected to anything - given CAM1 seems to be a camera, it looks like it is for an additional camera. It also has CCP2 outputs for a CCP2 camera. I also haven't been able to work out what SLIM is - but given it has two pins, CLK and DAT, I guess it is some kind of serial data protocol.
  • A1kmm 14y ago
    Although they look like they are in the middle of the BGA ball array, and probably on a pad that is just floating, so actually connecting anything to the pins that the board isn't designed to allow access to is probably effectively impossible.
• joezydeco 14y ago
  Pandaboard (okay, TI) has gotten pretty damned hacker-friendly. They have a nice schematic set too. http://pandaboard.org/node/223/ http://pandaboard.org/node/223/