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Raspberry Pi Zero Gains Camera Support, Keeps $5 Price (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi Zero has received its first major hardware upgrade today: a camera connector. The new addition of a camera connector works well with the two new Sony imaging modules announced last month. The board will retain its $5 price, too. Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi founder, said in a blog post that "through dumb luck, the same fine-pitch FPC connector that we use on the Compute Module Development Kit just fits onto the right hand side of the board." The team was able to close the feature gap between the Zero and larger Pi boards by moving the surface components towards the left, and rotating the activity LEDs. The CSI connector on the Zero is 3.5mm smaller than the adapter on the Pi 3, so you will need to invest in a new cable if you've already invested in a camera module for an existing project.
$5 price is a joke since you cannot actually buy the thing.
Guy here near me did this. He waited out in front of the store and bough all 150 that were in stock. When I dropped by in the afternoon to grab one, they were all gone.
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What types of systems? And how do I get a job doing this? What's a good place to start learning this?
There are all kinds of companies that do this. In spite of the stated purpose of the R-Pi foundation, the vast majority of Raspberry Pis are purchased for inclusion into final products by small to medium sized companies. I am currently contracting for a company that has done just that, and over the past 4 years has used around 5k R-Pis. I have contracted for another company in the past that was similarly inclined, and another one that used Beaglebones.
In answer to your question, There are lots of job opportunities along those lines. Search any job site you like for jobs requiring the keywords Embedded and Linux, and you'll hit on tons of them. Pays pretty decent, but be prepared to face some tough problems, as every one of these embedded platforms has tons of really annoying quirks, and the companies that use them grew *fast* because the SBCs allowed them a very rapid development cycle, so they expect anything can be done with a Pi and a few months of coding.
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That is ultimately a problem because every time the foundation releases a new Pi, they stop making older versions.
Nope, Eben Upton clearly stated that as long as there is demand they still make the older versions.