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arcadia-labsArcadia Labs 08/07/2014 at 13:140 Comments

UnJailPi just moved to a new board : the Raspberry Pi B+.

Because of the new 4 ports USB hub and the improved powering circuit, I could get rid of the old and ugly USB hub. I used it to power the Pi via the GPIO header, with some custom connectors to prevent backfeeding the USB or some nasty loops.

I don't need the ugly food box "enclosure" anymore and could start building a better one. This one will be made using some transparent plexiglas sheet. I don't own a CNC, so I'll do it by hand, using a saw and a handheld rotary tool...

This is not the final planned move across boards. Ultimately, I'd like to use the Banana Pi and a 2.5" SATA hard drive so I could move on the embeded cloud road. The Raspberry Pi is far from being the perfect board for this use : no onboard SATA, limited computing power. However for the moment I didn't succeed in building the kernel to support the TFT touchscreen on the Banana Pi.

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