We have been very happily making projects with our 256MB RAM Raspberry Pi in-house for many weeks — but we know that many members of the Adafruit community are excited about the new 512MB RAM versions that we are now offering. As so many of us are acquiring little squadrons of the little Pi computers on our desks, here’s a great note from RaspberryPi.org to help you identify which RAM version you have without even plugging it in:
We’ve had some people ask how they can tell whether they’re holding a 256MB RAM Raspberry Pi, or its big brother, the 512MB RAM version. Easy enough once you’ve turned it on, but you don’t even have to do that: you can just decipher some of the manufacturing code on the top of the SOC. Thank you SaltSpork for the photos.
See the long strings of letters and numbers underneath the word “Samsung” on the RAM chip in the middle? That’s the top part of the PoP, or Package on Package assembly which stacks the processor (the Broadcom 2835, hidden under the memory) beneath the RAM.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit, be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Have you tried the new “Adafruit Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro” ? It’s our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry Pi. But wait, there’s more! Try our new Raspberry Pi WebIDE! The easiest way to learn programming on a Raspberry Pi.
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