Raspberry Pi: Inside the Pi factory

by Nick Heath | November 30, 2012, 11:49am PST | Image 2 of 14

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The manufacturing process begins by feeding a panel of six Raspberry Pi printed circuit boards into a production line that mounts components on to the board.

The first stage of the production process is seen here, coating the boards with the solder paste that will attach the various surface mounted electronic components - the likes of diodes, resistors, capacitors - to the board.

The paste is forced through holes in a stainless-steel stencil that deposits micrometre-sized drops of solder on the board wherever a component needs to be attached.

Photo: Nick Heath / TechRepublic

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Try looking on the PI's Home Page here

HAL 9000 28th Dec

http://www.raspberrypi .org/faqs
remember to remove the space from between raspberrypi and the .org for a working link.

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Gimme One!

sparkielee 27th Dec

I'll take one please! I usually like my pi a la mode-but let's skip the ice cream this time. It will ruin the circuits! LOL

I'm an adult who wants to know more about computers-not just how to use Microsoft Office or how to clean viruses off my hard drive. In fact I'd like several of them.

I live in the United States. How do I get one here?

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Sometimes we get too fast for our own good

HypnoToad72 8th Dec

But I'll let you decide what ";)" means - but there is a meaning, if not two, and likely more profound than what you're willing to admit to contemplating.

Excessive gobs of (low quality) thermal grease applied to a CPU has a counteractive effect... so it takes a little time and care to do that...

Still, let's have our myopic little economy automate and devalue everything, followed by it damning all the "lazy" people, while the companies keep getting taxpayer-funded handouts at "lazy" peoples' expense... yeah, that's the ticket!

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