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Title: Raspberry Pi clone request for info Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on September 15, 2012, 06:21:43 AM Is it possible to build a Raspberry Pi clone from scratch?
~Bruno~ Title: Re: Raspberry Pi clone request for info Post by: RaTTuS on September 15, 2012, 06:44:43 AM only if you have access to the main chips , in other word no
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi clone request for info Post by: CJGoodings on September 15, 2012, 06:47:09 AM Its only a matter of time before hundreds of chinese companies start churning out millions of bootleg pi's.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi clone request for info Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on September 15, 2012, 06:54:22 AM only if you have access to the main chips , in other word no Damn! There goes my ButterFly Pi idea, unless I lie. Title: Re: Raspberry Pi clone request for info Post by: Spenzert on September 15, 2012, 01:10:59 PM only if you have access to the main chips , in other word no Damn! There goes my ButterFly Pi idea, unless I lie. Title: Re: Raspberry Pi clone request for info Post by: LoupGaroux on September 15, 2012, 05:26:46 PM Don't the Chinese already fab the ARM chips at the core of it? They could just turn the assembly line on for another couple of hours and have all the chips they need.
Beyond the chip fab, the rest of it is such easy assembly, the original concept of the Pi was to have school kids build it themselves before they started to learn how to program with it. |