Subj : Re: Homebrew pi400 To : Daniel From : The Natural Philosopher Date : Wed Dec 11 2024 16:54:59 On 11/12/2024 16:46, Daniel wrote: > Andy Burns writes: > >> Daniel wrote: >> >>> Jeff did a teardown on his second channel and soldered a m.2 socket >>> hoping it was properly designed. He found the power lines weren't traced >>> in so no power. >> >> There were some nearby component missing too, maybe the Rev1 board has >> bugs, and they need a Rev2 (or whatever) but his soldering job looked >> relatively clumsy (bridged pins etc). > > Yeah, it was pretty bad, at least he was honest about it. > > I am sure things were missing to keep the circuitry disabled and I'm no > engineer. Why would you put support chips on if you were not going to install an M.2 socket anyway? I think he called it right in that this is a bare bones model, and more upmarket versions will emerge in due course. -- The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about. Anon. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .