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I want one of these Pi Zero Motherboards, but there has been no update by the company since January http://hackaday.com/2016/01/25/raspberry-pi-zero-cluster-pa

I want one of these Pi Zero Motherboards, but there has been no update by the company since January http://hackaday.com/2016/01/25/raspberry-pi-zero-cluster-packs-a-punch/ http://hackaday.com/2016/01/25/raspberry-pi-zero-cluster-pac... Like others, I have a stack of Pi systems doing file storage, DNS ad blocking, webservers, home control monitoring, XMBC, etc. A clean mount would be cool

jalfresi 10y ago
Actually there has been a bit of movement on this board - they did some initial cost analysis and it came out way to expensive ($1000 a board!) so they are going back to the drawing board. You can follow along here: https://twitter.com/9_ties https://twitter.com/9_ties https://twitter.com/IdeinInc https://twitter.com/IdeinInc
- AstroJetson 10y ago
  Thanks for the update. I've poked at the twitter feed, but I missed where it says the boards would be $1000 each. (Using Google Translate sometimes doesn't go well). Maybe when the new Compute Module comes out, someone will come up with a way to put a stack of them on the same board.
tiatia 10y ago
Consider an alternative: http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=132 http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&p...
- AstroJetson 10y ago
  Very cool board, love how they get all of that crammed into such a small footprint. But,it has two problems. 1) you still need to do all the cables to connect them to the outside world. 2)Allwinner support for weird boards is often a problem. I've gotten a few of them in the "wow, look at all the features" to find that the drivers and support underneath has real problems. The Pi / Beaglebone ecosystems have one key thing, lots of very smart people are working on the hardware/software interface level. This means that things just work. The Pi team has multiple person-decades of software improvements.

jalfresi 10y ago

Actually there has been a bit of movement on this board - they did some initial cost analysis and it came out way to expensive ($1000 a board!) so they are going back to the drawing board. You can follow along here: https://twitter.com/9_ties https://twitter.com/9_ties https://twitter.com/IdeinInc https://twitter.com/IdeinInc

AstroJetson 10y ago
Thanks for the update. I've poked at the twitter feed, but I missed where it says the boards would be $1000 each. (Using Google Translate sometimes doesn't go well). Maybe when the new Compute Module comes out, someone will come up with a way to put a stack of them on the same board.

tiatia 10y ago

Consider an alternative: http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=132 http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&p...

AstroJetson 10y ago
Very cool board, love how they get all of that crammed into such a small footprint. But,it has two problems. 1) you still need to do all the cables to connect them to the outside world. 2)Allwinner support for weird boards is often a problem. I've gotten a few of them in the "wow, look at all the features" to find that the drivers and support underneath has real problems. The Pi / Beaglebone ecosystems have one key thing, lots of very smart people are working on the hardware/software interface level. This means that things just work. The Pi team has multiple person-decades of software improvements.