By the time everything not suited to through-hole has been put on a breakout board to make it easily usable with through-hole you end up with something like the CM0.That's what I want. A Raspberry Pi kit built using only through-hole components.
It then makes commercial and practical sense to put real world connectors on the breakout board to save users the hassle and cost of wiring the same for themselves.. At which point those breakout boards have become Pi Zero range boards or more powerful Pi SBC.
So there's barely no practical Pi as a kit to be had.
The CM0, a Pi as a breakout board, I can see uses for, though that really needs another carrier board to turn castellated edge connections to 0.1" pads and/or pins to suit through-hole use.
A Pi with Pico or Olimex RP2350 XXL footprint, with SoC, RAM, Wireless, ADC, HDMI, USB and SD Card or eMMC on-board, a better CM0 and available outside China, is what I would like.
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Sat Jan 10, 2026 4:04 pm