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.
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.]
At that price, I'd be tempted to get a baker's dozen of them and make my own little Beowolf cluster.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Friday November 27 2015, @09:32PM
For all practical purposes yes, you do need an IP address.
Sure, an engineer can set up a sneakernet, or he can connect a USB-Ethernet adapter. Most of my MCU designs have no Ethernet, or even an OS. But this is not something that you would expect from beginners. A teacher or a lab tech can set up boards like that... but the overall cost, especially labor, would exceed the cost of classical R-Pi with Ethernet.