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New Raspberry Pi Zero with Wireless and Bluetooth

posted by on Wednesday March 01 2017, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the Cheap-puters dept.

rob_on_earth writes:

The raspberry pi foundation have announced a new edition to the famously cheap Raspberry Pi Zero: Raspberry Pi Zero W

It appears to be the Raspberry Pi Zero with the Raspberry Pi 3's wireless chipset added on.

The retail price will be double from the $5 of the original Pi Zero to $10, but as before, expect to add on the price of the specific mini cables and pin headers to turn it into a fully fledged Pi. [takyon ed note: But not necessarily as many because... wireless?]

There is also a new Raspberry Pi Zero official case (which fits both Pi Zero editions).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:56AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:56AM (#473206)

    So first they beat the C.H.I.P. on price (and stop it getting press) by rushing out the zero with no wireless interfaces.

    Now that they finally come out with a feature-comparable version, it costs a dollar more?

    Sounds about right.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday March 01 2017, @01:06PM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday March 01 2017, @01:06PM (#473279) Journal

    It makes me laugh when I hear IoT and people think running a quad core CPU with a full blown OS is how you control a light bulb. Web dev's....sigh.