Introduced in 2011, the FEZ Spider was and continues to be the first and most popular .NET Gadgeteer mainboard on the market. Today, we are excited to announce the new and improved FEZ Spider II! The FEZ Spider II was designed using the G120E SoM, the replacement for the EMX SoM. For more details on the G120E SoM click here.
Don’t stop reading, we have more great news. The FEZ Spider Tinker Kit has also been upgraded using the FEZ Spider II. All the same great modules and awesome kit with a more powerful mainboard!
For institutions using the FEZ Spider or the FEZ Spider Tinker Kit don’t worry, we will continue to offer both products until 12/31/2015. If you have any questions about continued availability please feel free to contact us directly.
@ Gus - only beat me to it as I had to re-read it a couple of times as the Spider II is faster, has more memory available and cost the same as the Spider I, freaking awesome to say the least. Looking forward to taking a Spider II for a test drive.
Even better it looks like the Spider II is $10 cheaper than the original!
This is awesome news, the Spider was my first board and definitely feels like the most functional board. This looks like a great step up for the board!
It’s actually the same price, I was making the newspost and updating the products at the same time, I didn’t expect anyone to click the links in that couple of minutes, sorry for the confusion. :-[
@ Gary - I figured that was the case, just thought it was worth mentioning.
One other discrepancy I noticed, the specifications for the Spider II says there are 3 U sockets, however the images have 4 U sockets. I am not referring to the main image with the labels, that is clearly the original Spider. The other smaller images look like the new board, I can see the change for socket 6 from CSY to CSX, but sockets 4, 8, 9, 11 still indicate that they are U sockets, so either the spec is wrong and there are 4 U sockets or the board is labeled incorrectly? Or of course there is another alternative that I have not considered… (can’t be that the same serial interface is surfaced on two different sockets, could it?)
I know, I am nitpicking, but I am at home so I have nothing else to do… mmm, now I realize why my wife hates it when I stay home
So let me ask this: Is anyone still in doubt that Gadgeteer is still in full swing and it is here to stay? If yes, I have few more tricks under my sleeve so stay tuned
@ Gus - I never had any doubt that Gadgeteer was here to stay as unbelievably freaking awesome never goes out of style. Looking forward to even more goodies coming soon.
Much better form-factor than the Raptor. And now even more powerful, thanks!
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