Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer

Post by linker3000 » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 12:14 PM UTC

reitoei wrote: post #101

buserror wrote: post #56

Broadcom must be delighted to have managed to find a use for their obsolete part from 2007 or so. Some accountant, somewhere, is happy :-) Probably a neat little board too, but unlikely to be $5. It's at £11.88 [0] ex VAT ex shipping at farnell UK (and can't be ordered anyway) -- that's more like nearly $20 these days. [0]: http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi-zero/sbc-zero...

€9.61 EUR from PiHut in the UK, shipped to Ireland.

Post by StavrosK » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 12:17 PM UTC

Vaanir wrote: post #175

StavrosK wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cost is $4 for a NodeMCU, $2 for the sensors, $1 for a breadboard to stick them on, and $1 for a microUSB cable to power them from. You can power the sensors from the NodeMCU's Vin, since that's the 5V from the USB. I have done exactly this, it sends values to an MQTT server on my NAS every second or so, which the NAS then adds to Graphite and plots them in Grafana. It also has some logic to act on these values a…

All that terminology at a really low cost, awesome. I feel like this comment could be turned into a popular blog post.

Post by k__ » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 12:17 PM UTC

cconcepts wrote: post #158

Amazing. If only I'd get my act together and do all the amazing stuff I planned when I bought my first pi - then I could justify buying this

Post by danpeddle » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 12:19 PM UTC

abdelhadikhiati wrote: post #182

Raspberry still costs more than 100$ in my country, due the rarity of such tools sometimes we found ourselves obliged to buy it with that price and pay the difference, and even though this is such a great step, i really doubt it would have any effect on 3rd world countries where this is really needed.

Post by yuvadam » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 12:21 PM UTC

jgowans42 wrote: post #184

I find the lack of ethernet or wifi concerning. I get that they're trying to keep it small and low cost, but I can't immediately see any use for a Pi that can't run standalone.