{"id":593,"date":"2018-03-14T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2018-05-03T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:40:24","slug":"a-new-raspberry-pi-for-%cf%80-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/a-new-raspberry-pi-for-%cf%80-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Raspberry Pi for \u03c0 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\">Raspberry Pi Foundation<\/a> has announced the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. This incremental design improvement provides some interesting features.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU<\/li>\n<li>Dual-band 802.11ac wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.2<\/li>\n<li>Faster Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0)<\/li>\n<li>Power-over-Ethernet support (with separate PoE HAT)<\/li>\n<li>Improved PXE network and USB mass-storage booting<\/li>\n<li>Improved thermal management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RPi-3-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 5 GHz wifi and power over ethernet capabilities are especially interesting improvements. The Raspberry Pi is a great experimenter&#8217;s computer. Many amateur radio operators and makers are using them in purpose built applications such as digital hotspots and home control. You can see more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQZxdiz2UAs\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<del datetime=\"2018-05-03T13:37:14+00:00\"><br \/>\nUpdate: 03\/19\/2018 &#8212; One difference that I failed to note betwee the RPI 3 Model B and the B+ is that while the RPi 3 Model B sported 1 GB of RAM, the B+ cuts it back down to 512 MB. While 512 MB may be enough for your application, if it is not, you may with to stick with the original RPi 3 Model B.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>Update: 05\/03\/2018 &#8212; I have verified that RPi 3 Model B+ does still have 1 GB of RAM.\u00a0 The reference to 512 MB RAM came from the specifications listed on the RPi Foundation web page when originally released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. This incremental design improvement provides some interesting features. 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU Dual-band 802.11ac wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.2 Faster Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0) Power-over-Ethernet support (with separate PoE HAT) Improved PXE network and USB mass-storage booting Improved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/a-new-raspberry-pi-for-%cf%80-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Raspberry Pi for \u03c0 Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[18,95],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-technology","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspberry-pi-model-3-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}