What About a Custom Computer Module 4 Board I/O

pi-top [3]
#1

Hi guys ,

what about to create our own computer module 4 board I/O that fit in our lovely pi-top [3]

some days ago rasp. foundation release the kicad files
info here:

and my question is…pitop as company can create a board based on those files? or can pitop as company partnering with raspberry foundation and create a new line of product laptop based in this computer module 4 board ?

files:
http://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/cm4io/CM4IO-KiCAD.zip —> kicad schematics
(2nd release of the file and they remove the CM4IO.3dshapes folder )

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/cm4io/CM4IO-KiCAD.zip
(this ones was the first .zip release and contain CM4IO.3dshapes)

more info (issue trying to open the kicad files.):

Also take a look of Raspberry Pi 400 that is a new product but the concept of his PCB is what we need.

some pics of the cm4

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#2

Hi @AkiAfroo,
I’ve always loved the compute modules and we’ve experimented with them in the past. I’ve already preordered one with the dev board. Unfortunately for the rest of this year, we’re focused on completing the MMK and the sensor pods, so I can’t promise anything for the immediate future.

Just know that we’re all thinking the same as you :wink:

#4

Hi…the Compute Module is intended for industry use/further developed specialists as opposed to being “basic” - the ordinary Pi and Pi400 are truly for the schooling/interest market. The enormous benefit the figure module has is that it’s anything but a clean canvas - you approach lower level highlights than the typical Pi (for example PCIe rather than USB3) just as there being no connectors other than the board-to-board pair (permitting you to choose if you need USB, HDMI, Ethernet or not).

Because of that it doesn’t bode well to empower heaps of things of course (as is done in the typical Pi) since you probably won’t have and USB ports (so empowering USB would simply squander power and confound things). It would be normal that clients would streak the eMMC (or have their own eMMC/SD card if utilizing the light form) and empower precisely what they need, in view of the usefulness on their custom base board (the CMIO for mechanical clients is truly an illustration of what is conceivable, with the assumption that items would have their own custom PCBs to do precisely what they needed).

On the off chance that you need a basic Pi that “simply works” for USB, organization, video, sound, and so on the most ideal choice would be the standard Pi as opposed to the register module (it’s less expensive as well!).

#5

TA DA!

https://www.waveshare.com/product/cm4-to-pi3-adapter.htm?___SID=U

#6

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