It would be nice if there was an interface to solder on one of these dirt cheap wifi modules. SPI?
USB?
Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
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#12Free Raspberry Pi Zero with the magazine, wow!
"Zero" is a great model name, since the price is negligible (approximately equal to 0 for most purposes).
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#13This is intriguing. Is there a list somewhere that shows the cheapest possible place to get raspberry hardware modules. Also, where do you guys buy your modules? You can include Arduino stuff.
I just use eBay for Arduino stuff. It's a bit more expensive than AliExpress but I suppose I get a bit more buyer protection.
This screen* is pretty cheap, right? I'm currently using one (on an Arduino, different seller) and it works great.
* http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-204-20x4-Character-LCD-Displa...
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#14That's great.
Personally, one of the downsides of the original RPi (and RPi 2 as well), was it's , believe it or not, size.
Sometimes I wanted to have some portable embedded projects, for which small micro-controller would not be enough, but RPi, was 10 times bigger.
But it's just my personal nitpick, overall RPi devices, community and it's ecosystem is just great.
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#15I'd like to get into this world. At this point I don't have enough experience or knowledge to know what kinds of things I can do with this thing. Or what kinds of things this is more appropriate for compared to a Raspberry Pi 2, or vice versa. Any pointers?
Could I make some kind of driver/controller for a small synchronized christmas light show with this? Or some kind of toy with lights and sounds for my toddlers?
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#16It would be nice if there was an interface to solder on one of these dirt cheap wifi modules. SPI?
There are serial-to-wifi modules for the Arduino; surely one of them would work on the RPi header, though you might need some new software to forward the network packets to it.
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#17Somewhat disappointing that in Australia RPi Zero costs AU$19.38 (plus AU$12.95 shipping). Quite a lot more than US$5 (=AU$6.93).
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#18Nice. Interesting design choice to not have ethernet on it.
Ethernet is handled by an extra chip that also provides the USB hub function. This is wired up like the model A(+) which also doesn't have Ethernet.
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#19All sold out!
Wanted the MagPI Magazine with a free RPi Zero but its sold out!
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#20I'd like to get into this world. At this point I don't have enough experience or knowledge to know what kinds of things I can do with this thing. Or what kinds of things this is more appropriate for compared to a Raspberry Pi 2, or vice versa. Any pointers? Could I make some kind of driver/controller for a small synchronized christmas light show with this? Or some kind of toy with lights and sounds for my toddlers?
Yes and yes. Obviously, you will need a bit more hardware than only a Raspberry Pi.
The simplest one I found is here: http://opensource.com/life/15/2/music-light-show-with-raspbe...
And there's plenty of other results on 'raspberry christmas lights'.