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If I prototype something with an Arduino, I can easily switch to directly sourcing ATmegas and spin my own boards. The Pi Zero is the next thing over from vapo
by prutschman 10y ago
If I prototype something with an Arduino, I can easily switch to directly sourcing ATmegas and spin my own boards.
The Pi Zero is the next thing over from vaporware. I know some people who have a few, but all of the official vendors linked from https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/ are either out of stock, or have "limit one per household."
I'd been having trouble figuring out where to source the BCM 2835 SoC that powers the Zero, and there's (allegedly) a reason for that: https://olimex.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/who-fears-from-the-competition-rpi-foundation-pressed-broadcom-to-stop-selling-bcm2835-to-competing-projects/ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/who-fears-from-the-c...
- software_radio 10y agoI have a pile of them here. It's not vaporware.
- sklogic 10y agoCan you build one? Can you even source a Broadcom SoC? While Arduino-compatible MCUs can be trivially dropped into your own PCB designs. Some can even run dead-bugged with little to no effort, due to a much higher degree of integration.
- prutschman 10y agoCongratulations on being a person of the sort I mentioned, who managed to get a few of them. If I build one into a product can I buy 100 of them? 1000 of them? Can I source the SoC to make my own board based on the design?
- pauly 10y agoafter the initial batch all manufacturing resource was supposedly moved to the pi 3 so they're still tricky to come by. I'm sure they'll be back though. There's an interview in https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/43/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/43/ that explains this I think. I have one pi zero and (like 99% of raspberry pis - or is it raspberries pi? - in the wild) I have not done anything useful with it yet.