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posted by cmn32480 on Friday November 27 2015, @02:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the Raspberry-Pi-justin-time-for-Thanksgiving dept.

The big news in Raspberry Pi circles yesterday was the release of the new Raspberry Pi Zero a higher clocked, updated, smaller version of the original Raspberry Pi.

Exciting as that is, what seems much more news worthy is that the price point of just £4 means that they can include 10,000 of them on the Mag Pi print magazine available on sale yesterday.

In this video run down of the features done by The Raspberry Pi Guy YouTube you can see it happily run Minecraft: Pi Edition and is reported to run most software without issue.

The only down side with the new Pi appears to be the micro connectors. Various companies willing to set you up with kits to fill the void.

ModMyPi

Pi Hut

Also beware of the P&P (postage and packaging) from various retailers, a £4 Pi Zero with triple the carriage.

[Specs provided after the break.]

  • A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
    • 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
  • 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
  • A micro-SD card slot
  • A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
  • Micro-USB sockets for data and power
  • An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
    • Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
  • An unpopulated composite video header
  • Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm

At that price, I'd be tempted to get a baker's dozen of them and make my own little Beowolf cluster.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2015, @08:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2015, @08:54PM (#268796)

    it may be 5 dollars, but its worthless without several extras to make it usable ( that both raise the cost and increase its footprint ). It would have been trivial for them to add current standard connectors and network connectivity for just a couple of bucks more.

    Just because its 'the smallest and cheapest' does not make it valid selling point, or an engineering target.