Modulo 5 Basic
Is it a Pi? Is it a Pine? No, it’s Les Pounder waving the latest Pineboards expansion around. Stop it Les, put it down!
There’s something missing from this Raspberry Pi 5… Hang on!
P oland’s Pineboards has a history of beating Raspberry Pi to the market. We saw this with Pineboards’ HatDrives!, which brought PCIe-based storage (and AI accelerators) to the freshly released Raspberry Pi 5. Its latest Modulo line is for the Pi Compute Module 5 and 4, and brings a Pi 5-like expansion.
At first glance, you’d think this was a Raspberry Pi 5. But look a little closer, and you’ll realise that there are several differences between the two. The CM5 PCB in the centre of the board has a very similar layout to the Raspberry Pi 5 – the SoC, RP1 and RAM are in similar locations – but the eMMC (if your CM5 has it) is on the underside of the CM5.