fugu Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/ This looks really sweet! and only $5! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vailixi Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I wonder what the software support for this is like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Easy: It's a Pi. Just a really, really small and thus cheap one. The only real limit you get compared to a regular Pi is the result of the reduced amount of connectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Figures my local Barns & Noble stopped carrying the MagPi magazine last month. The Dec issue comes with one stuck to the cover! It's the first computing magazine that gives you a free computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naruichia Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I definitely am interested if there was a little more power behind it. It only has a 1GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM, so it can be used for those easy projects at home but I would rather spend the extra $30 to get the B+ for the extra processing power and RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 would make a fun desktop model cluster... practice cluster programming... now I wont have to ask cooper for access to his cluster... now its incredibly affordable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I definitely am interested if there was a little more power behind it. It only has a 1GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM, so it can be used for those easy projects at home but I would rather spend the extra $30 to get the B+ for the extra processing power and RAM. I have a B+ running the pi thin client distribution in my kitchen. Have it rdp into a headless windows box that runs my weather station. We use it to control our sonos system and run the chrome kindle app for cookbooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 A co-worker of mine is all about model trains. He's written a C# application to manage his impressively large track and just last week found that he could plug everything into a raspberry pi using USB-to-serial plugs and run his program from Mono. He was suitably impressed with how little effort it took and how well it ran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 It runs openelec fairly sluggishly and issnt great at emulation of more modern (late 90) arcade systems, I'm interested in having a play with the $8 chip board as at least it has WiFi and Bluetooth onboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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