Compute Module development kits now available!

Fuelled by Welsh cakes and a lot of sunshine, the team at Sony Pencoed have finished building the first batch of Compute Modules (CM) and Compute Module IO Boards (CMIO). These are available today to buy from RS and Element14 in the form of Compute Module Development Kits. The MRP is $200. In each kit you get a Compute Module, an IO Board, adaptors to convert the CMIO board camera and display interfaces to use the official Raspberry Pi Camera (and display when available later this year), 5V power supply and a micro USB cable for flashing the eMMC from a host PC. Compute Module Development Kit (also includes 5V PSU and USB cable, not shown) As of today the only operating system that is officially ‘Compute Module Aware’ is the very latest Raspbian (as of the 20/6/2014), so you’ll need to grab that and only that to flash on to the Compute Module. The remaining OSes will be updated shortly. Right now using NOOBS or any of the other OSes will (probably) not work properly, but YMMV. We are working as we speak to improve the software stack to make it much easier to develop with the Compute Module. For example we are working on a new system to easily make the GPIOs controlled by the closed source drivers able to be remapped easily and also working to enable dual cameras. However these things aren’t ready quite yet. So a word to the early adopters – if you can do it with a Pi today, it will work. If you need more GPIO, it will work, if you need dual cameras or screens or any of the interfaces that are not working on a Pi then today it won’t work or might be more tricky than it eventually will be. We are working hard to get these improvements out just as soon as we can. To get started with your Compute Module Development Kit please head on over to the official Raspberry Pi Compute Module documentation. Also feel free to post questions on the forum, and we will do our best to answer them. Needless to say we are very excited to finally have the Compute Module winging its way into the hands of developers – we look forward to seeing what happens next!

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