@Patrick Van Oosterwijck unpopular

Roger Thornton You could but you'd have some big bottlenecks in terms of getting data to and from the external GPU

nightduck +1

next q from @cesar : Is there a way to use an external GPU with the Raspberry, for computational purposes?

Roger Thornton External GPUs; You could but you'd have some big bottlenecks in terms of getting data to and from the external GPU

ðeshipu we have some time dilatations again

Evan Juras+1 to @Patrick Van Oosterwijck :)

Frank Buss I wish the Raspberry Pi would have something like the BeagleBone PRUs, 200 MHz 0 latency RISC CPU for controlling the GPIOs

nightduck Those exist

ðeship why bot use BB then?

nightduck Buy a beaglebone

Thomas Shaddack 
+1 to @Frank Buss

Evan Juras 
thanks for linking that @nightduck , I was going to PM you about your question

Frank Buss 
lol

ðeshipu 
no need to make all hardware the same

ðeshipu 
BB also has the advantage of not using a Broadcom CPU

last question from @Paul Anaya : Roger, Happy Friday! Do you think you may consider adding eMMC boot to future Raspberry Pi models like ASUS is doing with their Tinkerboard S?

nightduck
And moar GPIO pins

Frank Buss 
and it has even a full KiCad schematic and board layout

ðeshipu 
luxurious

sfrias1 
+1 @ðeshipu

Frank Buss 
but this is the Raspberry Pi chat, at least they have a bigger and good community :-)

ðeshipu 
community won't power your project

Roger Thornton 
Unlikely at the current price point, we do sell Compute modules with eMMC on them if you wanted to use that. The main board can't support the cost adder

sfrias1 
OK. thanks for @Roger Thornton

ted 
I thought a teaser about this chat was "Where can you buy a Pi Zero in quantity?"

Thomas Shaddack 
backward compatibility with the OS is also handy. i fried a raspi 3 couple days ago (12V to the USB, grounding fault of a ramps/arduino module), the usb handling chip literally exploded. had only one, replaced it with a raspi 2 and it worked immediately, albeit slower.

sfrias1 
Haha

Thomas Shaddack 
can the main board have some sort of a miniature solderable line of pads for attachment of things like emmc yourself?

Patrick Van Oosterwijck 
+1 @ted

Sophi: This concludes our Raspberry Pi Hack Chat!

Roger Thornton 
The buses that would be connected to this are both used (SDIO) one to SD card and the other to Wifi. We won't be putting pads down but if you felt adventurous you coudl try tacking one on the lines!

Thanks for coming everyone, and especially thanks to @Roger Thornton

Patrick Van Oosterwijck 
No, that Pi Zero volume question must be answered

Peter 
I have to give two thumbs up to the RPi team. I was wondering what I was going to do with my first one. My children soon showed me. ;-). I was laughing as I tried to order the new 3B+. Thanks everyone!

Pabluski 
Thanks!

Evan Juras 
thanks Roger!! you did a great job handling the deluge of questions. see you next time!

feel free to stay and chat

Boian Mitov 
Thank you @Roger Thornton and @Sophi Kravitz :-)