Very interesting! Still loving my early Raspberry Pi boards.
Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
6 quid is not quite free - but reasonably close.
The magazine is £5.99 every issue to buy so yes the included PI is free. Not only are you getting a PI but you're getting a magazine full of advice and tutorials for the computer they've included.
And it's the first computer magazine to come with a computer (right?)
Just that makes it worth getting
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wifi is a game changer IMO. I've just found out about esp8266, and its a mini revolution on the Arduino world.
Wait for this ;) http://hackaday.com/2015/11/06/the-latest-best-wifi-module-h...
Wow, 2x CPU, better Wi-Fi and they even managed to add BLE into this? I have just one question: how? :O.
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#324I just bought 2 magpi to get 2 raspiberry pi zero but connecting then to a android charger (without and with sdcard http://director.downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/imag...) none of then lights the green led to indicate power on.
Someone have a different experience or can tell something about this ?
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's this stack for? I'd be very surprised if it beat PC hardware + GPU for MIPS or FLOPS per $ or watt.
Agreed for a supercomputer design it would be awful, but for a stereotypical 99.9999% CPU idle applications, the big win would be total cost of ownership / capex. On a long term view from many decades of observation, the digital world is bifurcating into one world thats 100% utilized all the time in data centers or real time control or video gaming, and another world that's 99.999% idle but when its active the users…
Most of this is the case for using one Pi, but not a stack of Pies. Unless you have some sort of micro-AWS which turns off the 99% unused ones. Ten boards drawing 100mW at idle are the same as one board drawing 1W at idle.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
The magazine is £5.99 every issue to buy so yes the included PI is free. Not only are you getting a PI but you're getting a magazine full of advice and tutorials for the computer they've included.
And it's the first computer magazine to come with a computer (right?) Just that makes it worth getting
Alas, sold out :(
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#327The Zero, which like its predecessors is being manufactured in Wales I have an original RPI made in China. That was right before the made them in UK, as far as I remember. The Zero would need an Ethernet-port addon-board. And for further RPI 2 iterations they should move the power-connector to a different position (e.g. like the original RPI) - would be better for headless embedded projects with limited space. Having…
For 5 bucks it's fine without an Ethernet controller.
I'm all for bare minimum functionality at this price.
If you want connectivity there are plenty of options available:
- buying its "big" brothers instead
- use a USB to Ethernet adapter
- Buy a wireless dongle (http://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-wipi-wireless-adap...)
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but like the Op, I would gladly pay double the price for some sort of onboard network connectivity.
There's a kickstarter I backed called C.H.I.P. that is exactly this. It's very similar in specs to the pi but comes with onboard wifi and bluetooth for $9 pre-shipping!
Should probably include an asterisk there to explain the shipping with the C.H.I.P.
$9 pre-shipping*
* shipping is $10 to $20 depending on destination
So, a "$9" computer that's actually $19-$29 due to sketchy shipping practices. I expect Raspberry Pi will not gouge customers on shipping to make up for their advertising gimmick.
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#329The Pi is a wonderfully disruptive thing. I think it's a quiet stalking horse for the second personal computing revolution.
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#330Really need a full-sized USB host port, so you can hook all kinds of gadget/dongles to it without an odd adapter dangling.