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Raspberry Pi Zero W is a $10 Computer With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (betanews.com)
On the fifth birthday of the original Raspberry Pi, the foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi Zero W, a slightly more capable variant of the miniature computer. From a report on BetaNews: It's essentially a Pi Zero with the addition of the two features many people have been requesting -- wireless LAN and Bluetooth. Priced at $10, the Pi Zero W uses the same Cypress CYW43438 wireless chip as Raspberry Pi 3 Model B to deliver 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity. The full list of features is as follows: 1GHz, single-core CPU, 512MB RAM, mini-HDMI port, micro-USB On-The-Go port, micro-USB power, HAT-compatible 40-pin header, composite video and reset headers, CSI camera connector, 11n wireless LAN, and Bluetooth 4.0.
I still have literally never seen a Pi Zero for sale, except for exorbitant markups that make them multiple times their supposed price. I live nowhere near a Micro Center. I am way closer to a Fry's, and several Rat Shacks, but they can't manufacture enough Pis to sell into those channels.
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...well before the news appeared on Slashdot. It should be in my hands in a few days. I have been thinking about ordering a Raspberry PI zero since some time, but now that they just improved the hardware, I couldn't resist!
You always hear that these new models are priced at $X, but when you go to look for them, they are always sold out, and alternative sources have them for >$X. Then people post picture tear-downs of these awesome-looking builds, but never post actual part numbers so the builds can be replicated, and when you go looking for them the final bill runs into the hundreds of dollars.
I guess I'm just over the various fruit boards. News and anecdotal stories make them sound like an incredible value, but I can never make it pan out in reality.
I've looked for a Raspberry Pi Zero for years... I've never seen one in stock anywhere.
I'm almost of the belief that they're fake, they don't really exist, just a pretend product put out there for the illuminati but never really stocked. Either that or reptilian overlords stole all the Raspberry Pi Zero.
Whatever the explanation- it's an imaginary product. It doesn't actually exist besides on some stores websites with a big red sold-out next to it. If it were real it would occasionally come back in stock.
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Actually, what people want are SATA ports on Pi's.
...and if it had a charging circuit like the C.H.I.P maybe it would be useful for gadget development.
Most geeks who are in the market for a Pi have several bluetooth keyboards, mice and other accessories laying around.
But the point isn't to use it as a computer, as much as it is to use it as a component for which you might not need any dedicated accessories.
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The Raspberry Pi is used in a lot of media boxes and arcade machines.
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Mine drives my 3D printer via "Octoprint"
I made a photo booth for my wedding.
With infant twin kids around, I don't have enough free time to truly dedicate myself to a raspberry pi project. However a few projects seem interesting:
- find an antique furniture style radio and convert the interior to an internet radio. This was not my own idea, it is a documented project.
- with some luck my fossilised macintosh 512k with 2 floppys (how I loved that machine!) is still in the basement of my parents. I thought it would be fun to replace the interior with a pi 3, and use an lcd screen instead of the crt of course.
- a diy picture frame style screen that displays all kinds of info from different feeds in separate areas of the screen. Weather, news headlines, picture of the day etc
What are some really good uses to put the raspberry pi to?
Mine, a Rev B I believe, makes a really good paperweight. I bought it to control a pile of WS2812 pixels, but it's not particularly useful for that task, as you need an RTOS to do that properly. I tried using it as a Plex (Maybe it was Kodi, I don't remember) player, but it was under-powered. I imagine it would work really well to drive digital signage. A lot of people use them for retro-gaming. But to be perfectly honest, most of the tinkering I do is driven off Arduino.
AdaFruit - out of stock.
CanaKit - slashdotted to hell.
MicroCenter - Yeaaa! I get to put one in my shopping cart. Go to check out...shopping cart mysteriously empty. Repeat...same deal.
Buy $4 WiFi dongle - connect to regular $8 Pi Zero == $12 Pi Zero W.
I guess I can wait.
Here's what I've made:
1. A system to monitor local aircraft noise (Decibel meter + receiver for aircraft transponders + some integration software)
2. My community currency software https://sourceforge.net/projec... + mobile phone dongle to make a mini bank-in-a-box with SMS payments
3. OpenCV + the little camera module to make a (flakey) computer vision experiment
4. Used a Pi3 as a slow desktop when my main desktop was hosed (by me, unhappily)
OK, I accept that I am old & sad & totally friendless, but these little things are great fun. Some kind of energy analysis for the house is probably the 'next thing'. Hope that helps with some ideas.
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What frustrates me about a device like this is that there's virtually zero value in having an HDMI port, but an additional USB port would be very useful. These are basically IoT devices, not desktop computers. An RS-485 interface would be handy too. :)
So it's a lot like a slightly more expensive CHIP only without its built-in 4GB storage and mini HDMI instead of composite output?
Since these devices are component level products, limiting their availability (presumably because of limited production runs) makes them next to useless. I don't want a single unit to merely flash a few LEDs. I want one in EVERY hobby device I build. Selling them singly and then having none available for months makes them useless to me - as close as it's possible to get to vapourware without actually being non-existent.
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After the first month or so, MicroCenter has had good stock of ZEROs (w & w/0 camera).
I also connected mine to a camera, but rather than for a photobooth it was to control my Nikon D40 from my phone, using wifi to talk to the Pi and USB from the Pi to the camera. It functions both as a remote trigger and as a way to quickly preview photos on a higher resolution screen than the one built into the camera.
We're adding a Pi Zero to our Desktop Satellite Antenna project for magnetic declination calculations and storing TLEs: hyperplaneinteractive.com
Probably not, so it should pass that test.
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What's the shipping on those pennies, though?
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Can you run Windows 10 on it?
I know you are joking by turning the "can it run Linux" meme around, but the Raspberry Pi org's download page carries a link to "Windows 10 IOT Core". No experience with it though.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Here's what I've made:
1. A system to monitor local aircraft noise (Decibel meter + receiver for aircraft transponders + some integration software)
Very cool and useful. Have you posted or shared the code and/or parts list anywhere on the net?
What was the total component price?
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That's nice. It's almost like the Orange Pi Zero, only with a single core instead of quad, and only running at 1GHz instead of 1.2.
I only mention this as I recently wanted to become more acquainted with the RasPi ecosystem, and this looked like a cheaper option than the Revision 3 Model B, albeit still sufficient for my purposes, so I picked an OrPi up just today.
At least the included networking should make either Zero board easier to set up in a headless configuration than the plain Zero.
Costs in my locale are still crazy, about 30 USD for the Orange Pi Zero and around 60 USD for the Raspberry Pi 3B. There are some other boards (and clones, and stuff like PcDuino) around, but these 2 seemed to me the most likely for my purposes, prices are usually even steeper than those given.
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Half the reason I'd like a device like this is so that I can Bluetooth enable all my old audio gear on the cheap. However, I found decoding bluetooth mp3 streams to be so sluggish (a2dp-sink) on Pi 2 and Pi 3, that it's unusable. I'm not sure what it is about the hardware / software that makes it this way, but it's sad.
Considering that their $35 Pi3 is well over $50 anywhere I can get one... I just assume that the prices quoted for any Pi product are pure fiction.
I've never seen any of them anywhere near the quoted prices at any place I can actually purchase.
If you are after a small, embeddable Linux+ARM device I'd recommend you forget the Raspberry Pi and get an Orange Pi Zero. They exist, you can buy them of AliExpress, and they work just fine.
Used one to monitor plcs at a hydroelectric project, another one to monitor the status of a compressor at a different site and another. Also had several different sites monitoring the up/down status of Lan devices and reporting back to the main server.
I have Kodi running on one as a media server.
I have Volumio running on one built into my sound system to make it a wireless UPNP endpoint.
I have another recording power temperature indoors and outdoors and logging it all.
Sounds like you're just posting the same thing. It's not a serious computing device. You're just offering a reason why.
They could easily add a USB3 host controller, but you're right they never will because RPi is just a cheesy toy.
Thanks, just briefly (sorry busy):
1. Pi3 + 16Gb MicroSD + Ubuntu Mate 2. Noise meter: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sis.... (this isn't super accurate, not expensive either)
3. ADS-B USB Dongle (R820T) incl. Small Indoor Antenna from jetvision.de
4. https://github.com/antirez/dum... to read the transponder
5. https://github.com/fiddyspence... to read the noise meter
And some ugly glue code that 'joins' the two readings and sticks them in a one-table database. Obviously this is correlation, it will record cars if you point it in the 'wrong' direction. I haven't published the glue code, because it's in a terrible state. Hope that helps.
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