A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
A micro-SD card slot
A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
Micro-USB sockets for data and power
An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
An unpopulated composite video header
Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm
[no ethernet. Perhaps WiFi USB dongle instead]
Raspberry Pi Zero runs Raspbian and all your favourite applications, including Scratch, Minecraft and Sonic Pi. It is available today in the UK from our friends at element14, The Pi Hut and Pimoroni, and in the US from Adafruit and in-store at your local branch of Micro Center. We’ve built several tens of thousands of units so far, and are building more, but we expect demand to outstrip supply for the next little while.
One more thing: because the only thing better than a $5 computer is a free computer, we are giving away a free Raspberry Pi Zero on the front of each copy of the December issue of The MagPi, which arrives in UK stores today. Russell, Rob and the team have been killing themselves putting this together, and we’re very pleased with how it’s turned out. The issue is jam-packed with everything you need to know about Zero, including a heap of project ideas, and an interview with Mike Stimson, who designed the board.
MagPi #40 in all its glory
$5 is only and ads, on Element14 is 12.8 euro before tax and shipping.
I think I will buy it!
$5 is only and ads, on Element14 is 12.8 euro before tax and shipping.
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The makers’ (UK) video said they build 10,000 in the first run.
I have two RPi’s already. The price and size of the zero is appealing.
I’m now into doing embedded work with low cost board using Python and not struggling with Arduino.
I flashed Particle.io’s Photon WiFi board with their port of Python 3. Nice. Cheaper than the microPython board.
But the RPi’s are so much easier to “get ‘er done”, with Python, Javascript, C, lots of I/O libraries.
I think the bytecode interpreters like Python, eLua, Javascript are the way to go with embedded tinkering, these days, on sub-$20 boards.
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I think the bytecode interpreters like Python, eLua, Javascript are the way to go with embedded tinkering, these days, on sub-$20 boards.
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I think the bytecode interpreters like Python, eLua, Javascript are the way to go with embedded tinkering, these days, on sub-$20 boards.
Most big sites (slashdot, hackaday,…) are an absolute disaster >_<. nobody seeing the potential of such a cheap raspberry
I hope to soon lay my hands on a few, and i’ve got some projects in mind where arduino/stm32 boards just don’t have the processing power/memory/… to handle some more complex audiovisual stuff, and cheap&small boards like this are just what i’ve been waiting for to do that . Possibly with an arduino/stm32 in between for better io support in some cases .
Already ordered a few dirt cheap raspberry compatible wifi dongles from china to give them some basic network connectivity .
These new cheap mini pc’s are going to be a great addition the the 5$ range of boards to do awesome stuff with .
And the launch being a bit messy is kind of expected i guess. The uk retailer pihut was the best i think, there you could buy a plain one (4£), with only 2.5£ of shipping to entire europe, so that was about 9€ for a standard board delivered. But we’ll have to be a bit patient for more to be built, and it becoming available in local shops .
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Your comment on not using for products… maybe. But I’ve used Python for two products, one running embedded on a humble microprocessor. It worked very well. The product that it ran on was a programmable wireless/wired gateway for sensors. Successful deployments. Simplified skill level needed to customize.[/quote]
I was thinking about consumer products where a hiccup in the interpreter or c-lib might cause a critical failure. Non-compiled languages are notorious for house-cleaning stalls and non-consistent timing profiles. Consumer libility concerns is one of the main expense to designing computing into end user products; automobiles come to mind, but smart home products may soon overtake the uC penetration in numbers.
I certainly would not want to be driving my car on wet pavement and have to panic stop when the anti skid computer decided it needed to house clean RAM.
But, yes, there are many places where an interpreter is appropriate. But the Engineer in me is always wanting to qualify those examples with professional concerns as not all programmers have an engineering background firmly planted with an ethical foundation. Yea, I’m Old School taught.
Ray
* We had our own custom high level language and IDE/compiler that partners and customers could use to write programs.
You can get one of these FREE ***GRATIS*** on the front of a magazine call pihut Cost about $10 US
Everyone seems to be in upraw about its lack of networking and usb ports but the usbchip and the network chip on the pi eats power. Who wants to wire an IOT device WIFI costs us$4 via a OTG adapter http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android- … 86756.html and http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Lower-pr … 69959.html
As for the lack of usbs for an embeded solution 1 is enough for the wifi dongle. If you need more http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Multi-Fu … 92652.html should do the job at UD$3 delivered it also gives you an opportunity to add more storage via Sd of TF cards. so you could mount the OS on a r/o Partition and store the data on an external tf card.
You can even get a 3.5″ touch display for it for usd12 http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Rasberry … 31461.html
So you could make yourself a wifi controller for your central heating system with a touch screen and web interface for around us$30. PI + PSU +WIFI MODUAL +LCD +RELAY BOARD +LCD DISPLAY +4GB MICROSD+ 2 GANG BACK BOX+ DS18B20 . power consumption <10W anual running cost <$1.50. OH and a couple of weeks of your LIFE.
Most big sites (slashdot, hackaday,…) are an absolute disaster >_<. nobody seeing the potential of such a cheap raspberry
You can get one of these FREE ***GRATIS*** on the front of a magazine call pihut Cost about $10 US
Everyone seems to be in upraw about its lack of networking and usb ports but the usbchip and the network chip on the pi eats power. Who wants to wire an IOT device WIFI costs us$4 via a OTG adapter http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android- … 86756.html and http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Lower-pr … 69959.html
As for the lack of usbs for an embeded solution 1 is enough for the wifi dongle. If you need more http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Multi-Fu … 92652.html should do the job at UD$3 delivered it also gives you an opportunity to add more storage via Sd of TF cards. so you could mount the OS on a r/o Partition and store the data on an external tf card.
You can even get a 3.5″ touch display for it for usd12 http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Rasberry … 31461.html
So you could make yourself a wifi controller for your central heating system with a touch screen and web interface for around us$30. PI + PSU +WIFI MODUAL +LCD +RELAY BOARD +LCD DISPLAY +4GB MICROSD+ 2 GANG BACK BOX+ DS18B20 . power consumption <10W anual running cost <$1.50. OH and a couple of weeks of your LIFE.
Adafruit’s $5 RPi zero arrived today.
With a micro-USB to full USB cable adapter plugged into a USB hub, keyboard, mouse and WiFi dongle plugged into hub, and HDMI to monitor… I backed up then booted the uSD card with RPi “Jessie” distribution.
Came up right away, correct resolution (1920×1080) on my monitor! No struggles to get the video mode correct.
Took me a few minutes to realize that the WiFi driver is already installed and there’s an icon for it, top right of desktop. Click that, choose my SSID, enter password and ta-da, I’m on yahoo.com
Now, on to installing VNC server on the RPi zero so I can disconnect the keyboard/mouse/monitor and run headless. Remote connect using VNC client on whatever PC. I’ve done this for a long time with the older RPi’s.
I noticed that this kernel has drivers for SPI, I2C and other stuff built-in.
Nice.
stephen
RPi zero.. humming along. $5 WiFi dongle.
Now running VNC so I no longer need a USB Hub + keyboard/mouse to access the ‘Zero using SSH/telnet or browser to VNC and desktop.
Able to have automatic event based emails sent from the ‘Zero via gmail which requires SSL. Uses about 10 lines of Python code.
Also have SMB configured so the ‘Zero can use my LAN’s NAS for storage rather than solely the SD card in the ‘Zero.
Python working nice.
The Jessie Linux kernel on the ‘Zero says it has drivers for SPI, I2C in addition to GPIO and serial.
Not bad for about $10 plus a spare USB phone charger for powering the RPi.
By experience on other platforms, the RTL8188 is the easier I found while the MT7601 was a trouble .
By experience on other platforms, the RTL8188 is the easier I found while the MT7601 was a trouble .
i hope it arrives soon
.But atm you really have to keep an eye on it, i was subscribed on their mailing list, but after some looking around last weekend i found the announcement that they’d release their new stock monday at noon uk time, so i made sure i’d be ready to order one immediately
.Many people talk about what a Linux board, esp. now with the $5+x = $12 w/networking, CANNOT do.
There is 16MHz+ SPI
There is fast GPIO
There are 15 DMA channels
There is C and Python and Java and visual programming.
I can think of a few edge cases that are too time- or latency sensitive that even the above can’t do well.
But are there REALLY very many such projects – considering all people interested in IoT and makers and all?
I can think of a few edge cases that are too time- or latency sensitive that even the above can’t do well.
But are there REALLY very many such projects – considering all people interested in IoT and makers and all?
I suspect the same would apply to the Zero, but I will buy few and put them in the box of other unused processor boards.
As most people have a mobile phone, which has better capabilities than the RPi, I find myself just leveraging this capability using devices like the ESP8266 and the nRF51822.
I have 2 or 3 hobby projects in home automation for which the above are a good fit.
I re-iterate with a new order, 2 other boards should come soon, maybe not for Christmas, but maybe for New Year
Also, I’ve plegged for one PineA64, but delivery will me only late March 2016 …
I re-iterate with a new order, 2 other boards should come soon, maybe not for Christmas, but maybe for New Year
Also, I’ve plegged for one PineA64, but delivery will me only late March 2016 …
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Also, I’ve plegged for one PineA64, but delivery will me only late March 2016 …
Same might apply to all low cost SBCs that run Android or Linux.
The low cost tablets do have their place. But they lack SPI, I2C, GPIO, PWM, Input Capture, and so on, unless via an add-on board connected by USB.
