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Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
- crypt1d 10y agoOne of the best things about rPi products is that for $10 not only do you get the computer, but you are also able to tap into the huge community support behind it. Folks at rPi Foundation are doing some really amazing work. Congrats!
- curiousgal 10y agoAh, the joy of living in the Third World, $50 shipping for a $10 item.
- pulse7 10y agoBuy 10 or 20 together and shipping will be more or less the same...
- kbart 10y agoShipping is 15€ in EU, so still more expensive than Pi itself. It's a shame that they overprice shipping so much, it shouldn't cost more than few € (according to other similar size items I order from Internet on regular basis).
- lorenzhs 10y agoI found at least one UK seller that will ship to the EU for £4 (€4.70) and the US for £5 ($6.20), and they seem to have some in stock still. Just shop around a bit.
- Nanite 10y agoThere are several resellers on the EU mainland which have stock, and not too horrible shipping fees. Just ordered mine this morning and got shipping confirmation for arrival tomorrow.
- christogreeff 10y agoThat is, if you can get someone to ship it.
- nattmat 10y agoMore like 4 GBP. I paid 26 GBP for Zero W, Essentials kit, original case and international shipping to Norway from GB (ThePiHut).
- forinti 10y agoI buy from modmypi: they ship to Brazil (to where some shops are afraid of selling) and have reasonable shipping fees. Adafruit has lots of cool stuff, but it charges at least $40 for shipping. Not worth it for a casual buyer.
- IshKebab 10y agoI wish they would make a version of the raspberry pi display that let you plug in a Pi Zero. Then they could get rid of the huge hump on the back.
- blkhawk 10y ago<rant> Sadly its extremely hard to buy any Pi Zero at the sticker price. Its always out or not available - and even if you can get em you only can order a limited amount (in the case were I got lucky it was 1). The Pi Zero W seems to continue the trend as far as my local distributor is concerned. I get the overpriced USB hubs its where the profit is at but MAN stop frigging teasing its annoying if you can't buy it at that price. I don't want the adapters - I solder to the board directly and while the sandisk sd card is not terrible its far from the fastest you can get for a similar price. </rant> sorry about that I am calm now.
- 2sk21 10y agoThis brings up a question I've been meaning to ask: how hard is it to solder a 40 pin connector to a Pi Zero. Do you need a temperature controlled soldering iron?
- blkhawk 10y agoits not hard at all - a 10EUR iron will do frankly if you aren't a complete spaz :) the pin spacing is just as large as with the "grownup" RPI just don't use lead-free solder - no good reason for it and it makes soldering harder than it need be.
- lloydsparkes 10y agoThis solves my biggest issue, and will make a few projects I'm working on much much easier. It was such a pain to do USB networking on the old zero. But its a great size and form factor for projects Adding in Bluetooth and Wifi will make it much easier to work with
- tomelders 10y agoHow robust and dependable is the Raspberry Pi? I've been looking at Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) systems recently, and as far as I can tell, they're third rate hardware loaded up with fourth rate software selling at first rate premiums. I've been considering rolling my own around a Raspberry Pi, but I'm not sure how dependable they are. Does anyone have any advice on that front?
- marak830 10y agoI second this. I'm looking at writing my own for the restaurant, as frankly their prices are insane for the horrid quality.
- rtpg 10y agoI imagine that stuffing an RPi into a box in a badly ventilated area might cause some heating issues. They run hot and are not really rated to handle that long-term. More generally, if you're looking at POS systems, the new hotness is to just use a tablet. Solves the display problem quite easily. USB barcorde scanners usually work as keyboards, so it's not hard to get set up. If you're looking to do it with a Pi, there are small screens for the device, but I think the parts total will quickly get higher than a low-end Android tablet.
- tomelders 10y agoTablet's get expensive pretty quickly, and they will break. I need at least five EPOSs for "reasons". And I reckon I could have every thing I need, plus replacement hardware on location for a fraction of the cost of using tablets.
- aargh_aargh 10y agoArticle by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/02/28/10-raspberry-pi-zero-w-the-w-means-wifi-bluetooth/ http://hackaday.com/2017/02/28/10-raspberry-pi-zero-w-the-w-...
- trome 10y agoWhy would I buy the Raspberry Pi Zero instead of an OrangePi PC ($15) or an OrangePi Zero ($8.99)? With the latter, I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it, and I'll get 40MB/s unlike the Raspi's 4 to 5MB/s, and both OrangePis are able to run a fully libre stack with kernel 4.10 and have much more CPU grunt than this Raspi (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.2Ghz vs one ancient ARMv6 core at 1Ghz). The built in ethernet port, full size USB port and ability to easily add POE support are just gravy on top to make it easily usable, rather than have a dozen dongles and a USB hub hanging off it needlessly. Edit: Added kernel version, clarified POE support.
- kogepathic 10y agoOkay, people who read this and want to go and buy the Orange Pi Zero: PLEASE read the following before purchasing! > I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it The NAS hat costs $7 extra plus shipping ($4 to EU for me). [0] And to my knowledge there is no case for the Ornage Pi Zero which can accommodate the NAS hat. > and POE support It doesn't support POE out of the box, and it's not 802.3af/at compliant. [1] You can use a passive PoE injector, but 5V in a CAT5/6 cable won't get you very far. You can use a higher voltage, but then you need to add a DC/DC voltage converter and unsolder some resistors from the PCB. In short: it's a lot of work to get POE working. It's not really worthwhile. Also the WiFi on the Orange Pi Zero is a piece of shit. [2] Performance is crap and there's high packet loss. Allwinner's driver is a steaming pile of shit and no one from Xunlong or Allwinner is working to make it any better. The stock images from Xunlong are using kernel 3.4! Several people from Armbian are trying to improve the driver, but there's no public datasheet and the firmware of the wireless module is pretty crash happy. Also it's 2.4GHz 1T1R (same as the Raspberry Pi W) so the performance is always going to be bad, even after (or if) Armbian manages to fix up the driver. - *Does the Orange Pi Zero outperform the Raspberry Pi (Zero, W, 1, 2)?* Yes. - *Should I buy the Orange Pi Zero for my project that needs WiFi?* No. - *Should I buy the Orange Pi Zero for a project requiring USB and Ethernet?* Yes! - *Should I use the images from Xunlong for my Orange Pi <whatever>?* Please no! Use Armbian ( https://www.armbian.com/ ) Images from Xunlong are using an ancient kernel and don't have proper power/thermal management for the SoC. With Armbian and the mainline kernel, temperatures are under control and you don't need a heat sink unless you're using 100% CPU all the time. Also, cores don't randomly shut off due to overheating. [0] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orange-Pi-Zero-NAS-Expansion-board-Interface-board-Development-board-beyond-Raspberry-Pi/32789632568.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orange-Pi-Zero-NAS-Expansion... [1] http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_Zero#Powering_the_board http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_Zero#Powering_the_board [2] https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/3243-orange-pi-zero-wireless-module-status-xradio-st-cw1200/?p=24447 https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/3243-orange-pi-zer...
- schappim 10y agoThe specs: - 1GHz, single-core CPU - 512MB RAM - Mini-HDMI port - Micro-USB On-The-Go port - Micro-USB power - HAT-compatible 40-pin header - Composite video and reset headers - CSI camera connector - 802.11n wireless LAN - Bluetooth 4.0 Source: http://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-zero-wireless http://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-ze...
- peter_retief 10y agoIt sounds great, going to skip the zero (was never in stock) and go straight to the zero/W, this is perfect for remote sensors and actuators (I think, don't have it yet, going to order 5 to start)
- Nanite 10y agoYes, you could but it's still kinda overkill for just a bunch of sensors and actuators. With limited soldering a Wemos D1 mini would do a much better job. Use the raspberry as an IoT home server to push the sensor data to.
- voltagex_ 10y agoThe D1s are a pain because they're 3.3v and all of the boards you want to use with them are 5V
- soneil 10y agoPi isn't 5v-safe either. Takes a 5v supply, but 3.3v logic.
- zild3d 10y agoThis is a legitimate complaint at the moment, but with more and more development boards going 3.3v it just means you should always have logic level converters on hand. Luckily they are readily available, quite cheap, and small
- voltagex_ 10y agoI'm pretty new to Arduino and the ESP8266, but doesn't this involve breaking out all the pins to another board to do the level conversion? I was hoping there'd be a converter in shield form.
- zild3d 10y agoAh yes, I am not aware of a logic converter shield at the moment, most are in an IC or a small breakout board like the sparkfun below. I tend to avoid shields in projects as they are more expensive, take up more space, and not as flexible (can't be used as easily with another board e.g. teensy 3.0 vs arduino uno) https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12009 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12009
- toypaj 10y agoI just bought another Pi Zero on Friday. So have bought a Wireless one just now too :D
- arjie 10y agoDidn't see info on power consumption. Has anyone run zeroes completely wireless using a battery and Bluetooth LE or something or should I be looking elsewhere.
- jpablo 10y agoProbably better to go with a ESP32.
- redsummer 10y agoI've run a pi 3 on a generic iPhone battery brick. Just needs to have 5v USB output. The pi zero needs 3.3v, so 5v might fry it.
- anamexis 10y agoThe Pi Zero (and the new Pi Zero W) also takes standard USB 5v, not 3.3v.
- james_a_craig 10y agoNo idea where you got the "needs 3.3v" from, but no, it runs off 5V the same as the Pi 3.
- redsummer 10y agoYes I was wrong.
- PanMan 10y agoI just hope the will produce enough of them. For a project I was looking to buy 5-25 of the 'normal' Raspberry pi Zero, and no supplier had them in stock. We had to go with the normal Rpi 3, which (besides being more expensive) is a lot bulkier.
- Const-me 10y agoI wonder if/when will it run Win10 IoT Core?
- antongribok 10y agoMy biggest problem with the Raspberry Pis is not having enough time. I'm serious. The ultra low price point makes it very easy to go out and buy one (thanks MicroCenter) but then finding time and energy to complete a project from start to finish is currently my biggest challenge. I have several at home "in production" doing things like Z-Wave home automation, Proliphix thermostat chat-ops, wifi AP, some web scraping scripts... But, at the same time I have a bunch of other ideas that I have a hard time finding time for. My next project will be setting up Pi Cameras for home security and this new platform is looking very promising for that. Very exciting, but I'm dreading not finding time for it.
- arve0 10y agoHi! Do you do the z-wave packet radio yourself, with something like the RFM69HCW [1]? Have tried finding some specs on z-wave protocol without any luck yet. 1: https://www.adafruit.com/products/3176 https://www.adafruit.com/products/3176
- arve0 10y agoFound zwavepublic.com now :-)
- antongribok 10y agoI use a cheap USB Z-wave dongle that I got from Amazon. I haven't really gotten into SDR. One project that I've thought of was to use an SDR to monitor Z-wave traffic for security. This is very low on my list at the moment.
- teekert 10y agoHaha, you already seem to have more time for it than me ;) Mine just switches the outside lighting at sunrise/sundown.
- tjr225 10y agoI love having my pi set up as a headless in-home media server. I have it always-on and my nas mounted to it. Another thing I would like to do is set another pi up as a DNS server.
- makomk 10y agoGuess they were feeling some heat from the new Orange Pi Zero and possibly the C.H.I.P too. The omission of WiFi from the Pi Zero was a massive pain because there just wasn't the USB connectors to add it easily.
- Nexxxeh 10y agoI just finished a project where this would have been perfect. You can do wireless keyboardless headless setup. You can do it without connecting anything but power. On the SD card, place a file called "ssh" (no extension) so SSH is enabled, and configure wpa_supplicant with your wifi details. I found this on the RPi Stack Exchange [1](thanks scruss) ...On the full up-to-date Raspbian... >If a wpa_supplicant.conf file is placed into the /boot/ directory, this will be moved to the /etc/wpa_supplicant/ directory the next time the system is booted, overwriting the network settings; this allows a Wifi configuration to be preloaded onto a card from a Windows or other machine that can only see the boot partition. >Since the /boot partition is accessible by any computer with an SD card reader, wifi configuration is now much simpler. >A skeleton wpa_supplicant.conf file can be as little as: network={ ssid="YOUR_SSID" psk="YOUR_PASSWORD" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK } It needs to be Linux style line endings [according to user2154065] but I used Notepad++ on Windows to do that. --- [1] http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/10251/prepare-sd-card-for-wifi-on-headless-pi http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/10251/prepare...
- adammck 10y agoThis is a great feature to get started, but it's unfortunate that the "ssh" file hack doesn't set up SSH keys and disable password auth, or at least change the default password. That must be done manually. I dread to think how many Pis are out there in this configuration. I hope that in future, a proper/official headless image will be provided, to provide more sensible defaults. Until then, I made a little tool to patch the Raspbian images to set things up this way: https://github.com/adammck/headless-raspbian https://github.com/adammck/headless-raspbian
- pawadu 10y agoOh well... Hold on there landlubber! When we said one Pi Zero per order we meant it! Since we're not completely heartless pirates, just firm on our policies, we'll let you go back to your cart and fix this "unfortunate oversight". We won't tell anyone if you don't. - the Pimoroni Crew p.s. We always announce new Pi Zero stock on Twitter so it may be worth following for the latest information!
- mschuster91 10y agoMeh. I certainly get the addition of the CSI connector, makes for a pretty cheap wireless camera now - but what I really miss is a DSI connector, and real DSI displays instead of the I2C displays everyone seems to be using.
- kefka 10y agoYay. Another "Raspberry Pi" device for X$ that in reality is going to be 2X$ + .5X$ shipping. Or frankly, just want be obtainable for any price for the first 3 months. In about getting sick of how they're handling supply issues and pricing. Yeah 10$ ? Bullshit.
- sand500 10y agoIdk about the rpi zero but rpi3 is widely available now in brick and mortar stores. Once the initial demand is met, should just be able to buy from Amazon or something with free shipping.
- ge96 10y agoMan... Just made a little LAMP socket server with a cute little rubber ducky antenna for the USB wifi adapter haha... Awesome though. Progress.
- silur 10y agogratz you now have a closed-source CHIP with less features
- MarcScott 10y agoPlease remember: 1. Raspberry Pi Trading use UK based manufacturing facilities, so yes, it costs a little extra to ship outside of the UK. 2. Raspberry Pi Trading do not have the capital to make x million devices upfront. So supply will always be limited for devices like the Zero, while demand is high. 3. The profits from the sales of all Raspberry Pi devices are used to fund the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We do charitable work to further Computer Science education around the world. The target audience is educators and children, and that will always be the focus. That it happens there are hackers out there that want to use the device is great, but not the priority. 4. The popularity of the Raspberry Pi range is mainly down to the amazing community we have and the huge support available from that community.
- bhouston 10y ago> 2. Raspberry Pi Trading do not have the capital to make x million devices upfront. So supply will always be limited for devices like the Zero, while demand is high. It is too bad that this can not be partially remedied in some fashion. Of course you need to ensure you do not over estimate demand, but if you can sell for sure X number of devices in the launch period, you should be able to find capital somehow to be able to pre-made them to ensure reach your potential.
- Klathmon 10y agoIMO this is an area where something like kickstarter might come in handy. Let some hackers who are willing to wait a bit pay the cost a while before anything ships so they have a somewhat guaranteed amount of purchases before they even start. Of course that introduces other problems (like making it harder for the "target audience" of people learning to get ahold of), and you still need to do a lot of work to make sure you don't over/under charge, but it's an option that seems like it could work well for them.
- _red 10y ago#2. Sadly this fact undermines the real utility of RPI for development. Its virtually impossible to find any of these "$5 computers" in quantities greater than 1. Why develop on a platform that you can never put into production? I don't even mean producing "x million units", I'm saying you won't even be able to buy 30 of them for an internal company project. I understand that RPI mission is education and thats admirable - however they should be completely upfront on their product pages about this....each should state "DON'T USE THIS IN A PRODUCT" across the top.
- martin_a 10y agoI am very happy about this. Finally no more USB hubs hanging around my Pi Zero to have WLAN and keyboard access at the same time (yeah, yeah, SSH I know...). Just ordered two pieces over here in Germany, I hope they will arrive by the weekend. :-)
- dtornabene 10y agoYou may be "calm now", but nobody wants to read this. And at this exact moment there is a perfect comment directly above this at the top of the thread. Not only are you, and those like you, not the center of the universe, nobody wants to spend their time sifting through these comments on public boards. I know I'm screaming into the hurricane here, but if you were both entitled enough to post this and also self aware enough to know that its a self-serving rant maybe, just maybe, think before you start mashing keys.
- watty 10y agoTo be honest I think your post is more distracting than the one you're replying to (and likely mine more than yours). Complaining about lack of stock is a fair comment and I don't mind reading it. It also creates conversation about where to find it for cheap, why it's limited, etc. (as seen by the replies).
- dtornabene 10y agoMaybe? I guess thats a fair response. I just had a pretty allergic reaction to <rant> and what came off as really, just whining, especially since as I pointed out, the comment directly above it (for me, at the time of posting) was an almost word for word rebuttal of the attitude of op. Maybe I just need a break from this site, getting to the point where logging in to see people complaining, constantly is weighing me down. Thanks for the comment.
- blkhawk 10y agoI was merely giving voice to the annoyance anyone would feel when hearing about the Pi Zero for the first time trying to buy it only to discover that whoever had it in stock only sold it bundled with a lot of stuff you don't want. I overplayed it a bit for humorous effect. My comment caused quite a few follow up comments from people who had probably similar feelings checking out the Pi Zero so I don't think I entirely missed the mark here.
- dang 10y agoAs far as the subgenres of rants go, that one wasn't so bad. The frustrated love was closer to the surface than it usually is, the author showed some awareness of ranting, and the comment contained some substantive stuff ("I solder..."). I appreciate how frustrating ranty comments can be, especially when they rank higher than they deserve—which is nearly invariably, as steaming indignation always gets lots of upvotes owing to some bug in human firmware. But it would have been better not to take the thread in a personal direction. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 and marked it off-topic.
- jpliska 10y agoGetchip.com costs less, can actually be purchased and has onboard flash
- makomk 10y agoWhile the C.H.I.P. is arguably a lot nicer in many ways, I believe it's been out of stock since December.
- jamesadney 10y agoI'm glad both exist for sure. My favorite thing about the chip is lipo charging built-in. But micro-sd, HDMI, and the camera connector on the Pi are useful too.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoJust checked out the site and it says they're currently on backorder.
- toxican 10y agoThis is perfect. I bought two Zeros a few months back and my ONLY issue with them was how cumbersome having to use a USB hub was for wireless and keyboard connectivity. Looks like this may still require that for initial setup, but it makes discrete placement behind a TV much easier once that's taken care of.
- squarefoot 10y agoI will be interested when: - The processor alone will be available for purchase, so that if one wants to turn his awesome hack into a real product he can do that. (yes I know about the compute module; not the same thing). As of today the RPi processors are unobtanium in any quantity, so I'm not going to risk money designing anything I couldn't source the parts for. - The board will be a real product with adequate production and distribution figures and not just a marketing gimmick like the current RPi Zero whose only purpose is to take away customers from the competition. Until that day for anything not related to movie playing, I'll happily stay with Orange and Nano PIs, other H3 boards and the Odroid C2 for heavier tasks and other interesting 64 bit boards once they properly support mainline kernel. Before anyone complains... nope, che H3 with a normal heatsink (the same used in the RPi) and a decent distribution (Armbian for instance) does not overheat. CPU frequency scaling does work! Shills will downvote this to death, but I don't care.
- freehunter 10y ago>Shills will downvote this to death, but I don't care. I'm not a shill but that's not an appropriate comment for Hacker News.
- squarefoot 10y agoI'm relatively new here, so I apologize if I broke any rules. What do you find most inappropriate in my comment, the wording or the content? Articles about new Zeros make me angry because in other places I won't name people (including me) get silenced for any criticism to the strange production & distribution model of that board. But the criticism stands: everybody and his dog wants one RPi Zero, but after over one year it's still produced in extremely small numbers. In all seriousness, what company would like its most desired product kept unavailable for such a long time?
- freehunter 10y ago"This is going to get downvoted but..." is just complaining about down votes. It's not a rule, but the community tends to down vote for complaining about down votes.
- notheguyouthink 10y ago$10 is an awesome price point. I've never toyed with any of these, but i think i'll pick one up! How long do you think it'll be before i can safely hook up powered electronics into a system like RasPi? I'd like to make my home "smart", but i don't want to have random IoT vulnerabilities in my home. So a simple network of tiny linux machines powering desk lights/etc will be plenty for me. However, hooking electronics up is dangerous, so i'd rather wait until a professional makes it accessible to someone like me. Thoughts?
- lucaspiller 10y agoLook into a protocol like z-wave - you can already get switches, outlets, heating controllers etc and it can be done without an internet connection. You can get a USB Z-Wave dongle[0] and then use Home Assistant [1] on a Pi to control everything. [0] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/AEON-AEOEZW090-C-Z-Stick-Gen5/dp/B00YETCNOE/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/AEON-AEOEZW090-C-Z-Stick-Gen5/dp/B0... [1] - https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- draugadrotten 10y ago...and connect the RPi all to Siri and Apple Homekit with https://github.com/tedstriker/homekit2mqtt https://github.com/tedstriker/homekit2mqtt and/or https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant
- ericmoritz 10y agoI would get a Z-Wave daughter board and use Z-Wave devices for controlling the electronics. Z-wave devices aren't Internet connected so you only have to worry about locking down the Pi. Apparently there's already an open source project called Home Assistant for this purpose. https://home-assistant.io/ https://home-assistant.io/
- fragmede 10y agoSomething like https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 combined with a flavor of raspberry pi then. The linked product is barebones but the actually dangerous part has already been done for you.
- redsummer 10y agoWould this be quick enough OSMC (Kodi) and RetroPie? I have both on a single pi 3 right now using RetrOSMC.
- joshvm 10y agoI can't find any information on the site, but it looks like they've put a U.FL footprint on there this time (given that it's connected to the antenna feed), so you could solder one on fairly easily. Can anyone confirm? This would be really nice, currently you can't put the Pi3 in a metal box and get the wireless benefits.
- antirez 10y agoThat's great, recently I ported Redis to the Pi, and the most exciting device for IoT applications looked to be definitely the Pi zero, but the lack of built-in wireless networking was a big limit. At the same time the doubled price tag of the "W" version does not easily allow to use the zero directly as a building block of certain IoT devices or consumer products. What I hope is they'll be able to retain the features and lower the price at the same time.
- thrillgore 10y agoAnd predictably, I went to Adafruit to see if they Zero W was for sale, aaaand its sold out.
- godmodus 10y agoMight get one for the wireless and use it as an extender
- polskibus 10y agoDoes anyone know whether its Bluetooth adapter works well with Bluetooth Low Energy beacons in Raspbian or similar? I'm interested in using BLE from non C languages - .NET, Python, Erlang. Have anyone had experience with BLE and RPi3/zero and can share his/her experience?
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- rhino369 10y agoDoes anyone have a project idea for a Pi? I bought one a couple weeks ago to make a VPN server but I found out my router had that functionality built in anyway. I'm looking for a fun project to scratch my engineering itch. I've been a non-engineer for too long. I have an amazon echo for voice recognition functionality if that opens any doors. But I can't rewire my apartment since it's not mine, so I can't do much home automation.
- fragmede 10y ago> But I can't rewire my apartment since it's not mine, so I can't do much home automation. If you're willing to pay some, that's not that much of an impediment. Something like the Phillips Hue bulbs are self-contained inside of the bulb (at least as far as powering it goes) which means you don't need to mess with any wiring.
- happy-go-lucky 10y agohttps://hackaday.io/projects/tag/raspberry%20pi https://hackaday.io/projects/tag/raspberry%20pi Hope that helps.
- roryisok 10y agoI bought one this morning, going to hook it up to my router with pi-hole and block ads/clickbait/Trump out of my browsing across all my devices
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- Entangled 10y agoI, for one, welcome the $99 soapbar computer war that's about to unleash. It is unbelievable how Apple is missing this train. They could put 100 million soapbars in all homes in the world without even making a dent in their main products. All aluminum case, just like an Apple TV.
- oceanswave 10y agoCall me unimaginative but what would most folks do with a $99 soap bar computer?
- Entangled 10y agoHave access to a world of information? This would be intended for the 6 billion thirld-worders like me that don't have access to the internet, not for the one billion that can afford a $1000 iMac. Plug it to any TV via HDMI, attach a keyboard with trackpad and there you have it, instant knowledge at your fingertips. You can't imagine how much I have learned about carpentry, electric motors, water wells, metal foundries, solar, agriculture, stuff that is really life saving in less developed countries like mine. I dug my own water well watching videos from youtube using a 2" PVC pipe and a hose and found water just ten feet under the ground so never again will suffer a drought like past years. Youtube, Wikipedia and sites like Khan Academy are a godsend and if only more people in the world could have access to them imagine all the knowledge and productivity that could exponentially grow from that. The more people has access to information the better the whole world will be. And while the Raspberry Zero W is cool for playing and automating stuff, it is not enough for providing internet access to a third-worlder like me. Just upgrade it a little more and sell it for a little more and let people do the rest. America can continue enjoying their expensive toys while we catch up and help you build better toys.
- nd7 10y agoWhere is my complete B board? Meh, wait a whole year again.
- sebringj 10y agoI wonder if there would be a basic model like this with an included touchscreen. That would be perfect for kiosks and any type of wall mount setup like a code entry or whatever. That seems like a common use case to me.
- alexellisuk 10y agoHere's my first impressions and picture-rich review of the new revision - http://blog.alexellis.io/pizerow-first-impressions/ http://blog.alexellis.io/pizerow-first-impressions/
- alexellisuk 10y agoHere's my first impressions and picture-rich review of the new revision - http://blog.alexellis.io/pizerow-first-impressions/ http://blog.alexellis.io/pizerow-first-impressions/
- nathanvanfleet 10y agoStill never got the chance to buy one