By Desire Athow
You can now customise your own Raspberry Pi hardware thanks to an agreement signed by the company with its long time partner, Element14.
Various options are available for the bespoke service which will be initially targeted at hardware partners with a long term plan to potentially get individual orders shipped.
Element14 acknowledged that you would need to order at least 3000 units to benefit from the service and from its consultancy service.
More than seven million Rasperry Pi units have been sold to date according to Eben Upton, the CEO of Raspberry pi Trading with three million units sold in 2015 alone.
Initially geared towards the education sector, the Pi’s popularity for industrial applications has been growing massively with around a third of orders (1m units) placed by businesses.
A variety of Pi’s
Customising your Pi is not that straightforward though as it requires some technical knowledge; Upton mentioned that customers will probably have a prototype or a schematic of what they want.
Because of the custom nature of the service, he was not able to provide an example of how much a customised board would cost or how long it would take to be delivered.
You will be able to reconfigure the board layout, add or remove …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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