One of my other little launch week traditions for a new Pi launch is to update the Pi Family Photo. This time we’ve got three new members since a year ago when it was last updated for the Pi Zero W launch.
The aim of doing this is to maintain a record of pretty much all of the versions of the Raspberry Pi which could be purchased by the public. I do have some other rare ones which I don’t include because it seems a bit like gloating. Perhaps one day I’ll do a blog post about those (if I’m in need of a good gloat)?
So What’s New?
Some time in late 2016 or early 2017 a Japanese Pi3B, made and certified in Japan, came on the market. At last year’s Pi Party, my Japanese friend Masafumi Ohta showed me one and I bought it off him for the collection. (Had to be done really).
A few months ago, a mysterious blue Pi3B apeared on the scene. It turned out that this one was destined for the Brazilian market, but a few leaked out erroneously into the UK. Another friend, Ryan Walmsley snapped one up for me knowing that I am a collector.
Both of the above are functionally identical to the regular Pi3B we’ve come to know and love. In fact the Brazillian one is made in the SONY Pencoed factory and has the same ID number as the regular green Pi3B (which is probably why a box of them was erroneously delivered to a UK reseller).
And finally we have the brand new Raspberry Pi 3B+ which launched this week.
So here’s the updated photo, which I publish under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
This means you can do pretty much anything you like with it apart from use it for commercial purposes. If you want to do that, you can contact me and we’ll work something out. Enjoy the Pi Family Photo.
Raspberry Pi 3B plus Family Photo update
Zero WH? (runs and hides)
It’s also missing the Compute Module 3 Lite ;-)
Nonetheless, very cool photo Alex!
Yeah there’s a reason for that. I ordered one of each and Farnell sent me 2 of the CM3. Plus they look the same from the top
Oh, and you’ve got the wrong rev-code above for the Compute Module 1 Alex – it should be 0011 not 000d, All the rest of the codes match up with https://www.elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory though :)
Pretty sure I got all the codes by booting the devices and doing
cat /proc/cpuinfo
I’ve just checked and https://raspi.tv/2015/raspberry-pi-zero-updated-pi-family-photo displays the correct CM1 rev-code, but all the “Family Photos” since then have had the same 000d mistake, whoops!
P.S. I wonder if it’d be interesting / useful (for historical comparison purposes) for this post to link to all the previous family-photo posts, and for https://raspi.tv/2018/how-much-power-does-raspberry-pi-3b-use-power-measurements to link to all the previous power-measurement posts?
OK. Looks like you’re right then. Why has it taken you so long to spot this? ;p
Thanks for the catch :)
LOL, yeah I was also surprised that I hadn’t spotted it earlier ;)
Now corrected :)
Woohoo, I hope you don’t have too many T-shirts to re-print ;)
I only ever did two for myself and I don’t think it matters enough to bother changing those. Anyway they’re out of date so likely won’t be used again. We’ll see.
Oh, I meant in case you’d already printed any T-shirts with this new March 2018 image yet ;)
LOL no. I only did the image last night.
I don’t regard that as a new Pi edition
One could argue it’s as much a “new Pi edition” as the blue or red Pis? *shrug*
One could argue as much as one likes. This is the internet after all ;p
:-D
The Zero WH may not be a new revision PCB, it does come in a different format with the header soldered on in the factory (neatly, not handsoldering!) and in a box instead of the flat package. So yea its a different Pi for me.
Well I haven’t got one, so I can’t photograph it. And I don’t regard it as a new version of the Pi. I know that’s an arguable point. :)
– Different color PCB, same hardware: new version of Pi
– PIN connector soldered, same hardware, new packaging, new official sales item: not a new version of Pi
I’m a human being. Do you expect me to be completely logical and consistent? :)
Having said that, the different colour ones were either made in or certified for different markets. I would regard that as a different edition. They also make the photo more interesting (but that’s not a logical thing either) :)
Consistence is futile!
You couldn’t resist that ;p
Resistance is a measure of futility :-)
I always wondered what RF testing was :)
Hahaha, good one Alex :-)
Why there is a difference in Japanese and Brazilian’s RasPI?
I believe the differences are due to the fact that each country requires its own testing regime and certification and that the marks for this are on the product. Also the Japanese ones are made in Japan (by SONY). Making them a different colour is probably a matter of convenience for quick identification. (I’m guessing).
Great work but where is the RPi Zero WH?
Fierojo
Still in the shop. I don’t have one
I appreciate your work. Send me a ship to address privately and I’ll see what I can do.
Thank you. That’s very kind. :)
Ah! If its free the WH will join the family photo!? ;)
It’s simple logic Hans. :) I didn’t see the need to buy one or include it in the photo. But since someone has offered to send one and several people have asked for it in the photo, I am OK to put it in. Personally, I still don’t think it’s a new edition of Pi, but it doesn’t really matter. It will go in the next family photo.
If anyone has a CM3 Lite that they would like to swap for a CM3 full, I’d be happy to trade. I ordered one of each but was sent two of the full version. Since they both look identical from the top, I didn’t bother to do anything about it.
I’d love to get a hold of a Japanese model. Any ideas on how I could get one?
ebay, RS Japan, or ask someone on the Pi forums Japanese section to sort you out if you PayPal them the money in advance?
Traditions is what makes the UK great! So, the 3A+ has appeared and no new family photo yet :) ?
There will be one at some point Hans. If you check my blogging frequency over the last 6 months you’ll see it’s rather taken a back seat. I’ve had to focus on other things for a while, but I expect ‘normal service will be resumed shortly’ :)