Raspberry Pi Model B+

[Adrian Apps]

You may have seen the release of the new Pi Model B+, thought to post it here to make sure that Nathan saw it (microSD card on this one, harder to break!)

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-model-b-plus-plus-differences-vs-model-b?view=all

Here's the what's new and what's not from the link above, however if you want pictures you're going to have to look at it :)

A brief overview of what's new

• Dual step-down (buck) power supply for 3.3V and 1.8V
• 5V supply has polarity protection, 2A fuse and hot-swap protection
• New USB/Ethernet controller chip
  
• 4 USB ports instead of 2 ports
  
• 40 GPIO pins instead of 26. The top/first 26 pins match the original layout, 9 additional GPIO and 2 EEPROM Plate identification pins
• Composite (NTSC/PAL) video now integrated into 4-pole 3.5mm 'headphone' jack
• MicroSD card socket instead of full size SD
• Four mounting holes in rectangular layout
• Many connectors moved around

What's not new

• Same basic size, 85mm x 56mm
• Same Processor, Broadcom SoC running at 700MHz (can be overclocked)
• Same RAM, 512MB soldered on top of the Broadcom chip
• Same power connector, microUSB
• Same software - identical operating systems will work fine, just make sure you have versions that are later than June 2014
  
• First 26-pins of GPIO are the same
• Same HDMI port
• Audio part of the A/V jack is the same
• Same Camera and DSI Display connector

Check out the link for the full review!

[Nathan Williams]

Yeah I saw that and thought "finally" :p

I'm considering different boards for the future though, maybe a beagle bone black, and for smaller projects, probably one of those small & cheap T-LINK routers.

[Adrian Apps]

I have a couple of the TP-LINK TL-WR702N routers, they're good stuff!