This document discusses updates related to Raspberry Pi. It provides information on the Raspberry Pi Users Group in Japan led by Masafumi Ohta, ways Raspberry Pi can be useful for business including as an audio renderer or network device, and various case studies of companies using Raspberry Pi. It also outlines hardware and software updates for Raspberry Pi including addressing the Xenon flash issue and plans for new models like the Compute Module.

1. Raspberry Pi Update
- Encourage your IoT
Masafumi Ohta
Japanese Raspberry Pi Users Group

2. WHO AM I
- Now leading Raspberry Pi Users Group,A
Japanese Raspberry Pi Community here in Japan.
- Volunteer for Raspberry Pi Foundation - one of
the moderator for official Raspberry Pi Forum
helping the Foundation.

3. – Someone asking me..
‘Raspberry Pi is useful for my business?’

4. SURE IT IS!
• But please consider ‘Raspberry Pi Foundation’ is
NPO for children IT education.
• And consider Raspberry Pi itself is not so stronger
than any other Embedded board,which is for
factory automation or etc..
• but it is very stronger than any other similar one

5. ANOTHER ASPECT
• Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd is trading subsidiary for
their business function.
• Raspberry Pi Foundation continues to going on
their charity projects for the children education as
NPO.

6. COMPUTE MODULE
• Raspberry Pi Compute module is DIMM-sized tiny
PC for embedded computing.
• There are some partners which has the products
including Compute Module.
• Camera,Audio equipments and etc..

10. CUSTOM PI by Element 14
• Custom Pi is based on Raspberry PI x customized
by your order
• Considering the layout as possible
• Remove/Add some devices
• 5000 units/minimum order quantity (MOQ)

13. ONTHE OTHER HAND..
• In the software aspect is Raspberry Pi useful?
• Is it for Electric DIY kits for the GEEK?
• Blinking LED,Programable Robots..etc
• What we should use Raspberry Pi for business?
• Any solutions/thoughts/ideas for IoT?

14. TRY AS AUDIO RENDERER
• Almost audio renderer and Renderer OS works
fine on Raspberry Pi
• Now latest Raspbian supports many USB-DAC
devices with not-recompiling-kernel
• be careful to noise..often makes annoyed.

15. CASE:RYUKYU BANK
• Ryukyu Bank had used ‘Cable Broadcastings’ for
their branch bank music streaming system.
• Now they have replaced it with Raspberry Pi-
based streaming systems and broadcast the musics
from their central information center to all the
branches and plans to broadcast original music..etc

19. ROBOTS
• ROBOTS is hobby using Raspberry Pi
• RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Programable Robot work
fine with Raspberry Pi and Eben loves it.
• Lego Mindstorm also works with Raspberry Pi
• Using it for the business is a few - but good.

20. CASE:FUTUREAGRI
• Kabaya-san has dropped out a biggest
manufacturer company to decide the farmer..
• but it is very hard work for him to do that and feel
very difficult to employ someone for his help so
he decided using the robot.
• He says ‘Raspberry Pi is very cheap and powerful!’

22. TINY BUSINESS USE
• Tiny business use is for the beginner getting used
the business solution and learning how it works.
• Almost is like ‘hobby’ though you can try those
solutions and have the experience ‘crash and build’
again and again with the cheap Raspberry Pi
• Sure,almost should be used on ‘x86’ systems ;)

24. CASE:PIZERO CLUSTER
• Koichi Nakamuka,CEO of Idein made Raspberry Pi
Zero Cluster unit for ‘tiny’ HPC.
• Eben is very interested in such a very small cluster
and gave the zeros to him fulfill PiZeros on his
units.

26. AS A SERVER
• Raspberry Pi 3 works great as internet server.
• mail,web,dns..
• storages
• Almost has the packages for Raspberry Pi that
works fine.

27. CASE:RASPBERRY PI SITE
• Raspberry Pi website system was blogged in this april
fool.
• We thought it was ‘fool’ but NOT.
• hosted by mythic-beasts.com a UK cloud carrer.
• details: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/serving-
raspberry-pi-3-launch-raspberry-pi-3/

30. MINIO CLOUD STORAGE
• Minio is S3-compatible storage that can work on
Raspberry Pi.
• it is recommended to work on Raspberry Pi 2 or
upper.
• Very easy to install the server.
• run the script and check how to upload the file.

32. NETWORK DEVICES
• There are many 3G/LTE dongle/Wifi boards support
Raspberry Pi
• there are some solutions using Raspberry Pis as a
network devices using mobile network.
• Live camera ( with Raspberry Pi Cameras)
• You can buy some solution kit from those vendors.

33. CASE:SORACOM AIR
• Soracom is Japanese IoT-specific mobile career
using the programable/UI control management
system.they planing to expand their business over
130 countries.
• it can suspend/resume on the cloud
• its speeds can control on the cloud

35. LATEST UPDATES

36. HOW ABOUT PIZERO
• Pi Zero is still tightly supplied 1unit/person/order
each vendors.ton of demands makes crazy..
• There are 4 distributors for PiZero planing to add
more resellers when ‘claiming down’..
• Adafruits,Pimoroni,PiHut and Microcenter.
• Note it is NOT by Element14 and RS components

37. ROLLING UPDATES
• Raspberry Pi is very old - ARM11-based.
• The foundation announces they will produce old
raspberry pi 1 for a while for the education
customers.
• a few apps only work on RPi 1
• but some has already updated - Camera,RPi A+

40. UPDATE PI 3 HARDWARE(1)
• Xenon Death Flash fixing - but it could works
xenon closing the devices.
• Pi 3 Compute module/Pi 3 model A+ - New! but
haven’t released - CM already finished testing.

41. UPDATE PI 3 HARDWARE(2)
• RPi 3 probably needs to have a heatsink for its
CPU
• it is over 85 degrees not having it.
• 5/3A AC is needed but almost works 5/2-2.5A
• fulfilled by USB dongles…

42. UPDATE SOFTWARE
• Raspbian still release 32bit - it is only 30% higher
than RPi 2 it is expected and not so faster using 64
bit
• ‘Down-compatible’ is the first priority.
• Engineers at the foundation they don’t plan
64bit because its speeds are not so improved.

43. CONCLUSION
• Raspberry Pi is useful for your business.
• wondering AGL is supported (but it is for
developers)
• might be better factory/business ‘bearable’ boards.
• There are some good case with tiny computing!

44. THANKS
Masafumi Ohta
mail:masafumi@pid0.org tweet masafumiohta