Posted on 11/26/2015 4:10:18 AM PST by Bobalu
Today, Iâm pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of Raspberry Pi Zero, made in Wales and priced at just $5. Zero is a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family
(Excerpt) Read more at raspberrypi.org ...
A hundred bucks will get you twenty computers...outstanding!
>> A hundred bucks will get you twenty computers...outstanding!
Until they’re sold out. ;-)
They’re sold out.
Utterly amazing so much computing capability can be so cheap.
Have to wait a month or so but Micro Center will surely stock them in great volume... they always undercut the official price so they will probably have them for 4$ :-)
There’s a thread over on Hackaday
http://hackaday.com/2015/11/25/the-5-raspberry-pi-zero/
Once the hot newness wears off they will be avail for the 5$ price.
All the Pi models were sold at a premium by vendors when first released.
Like I said above, when Micro Center gets large stocks in they will probably sell a bit below the 5$ price. They discount all the models a little below the Pi.org price.
The hard part is the waiting!
>> Once the hot newness wears off they will be avail for the 5$ price. The hard part is the waiting!
I hope so.
A couple years ago we got all hot to do a project with a Beagle Bone Black. So we ordered one.
SIX WEEKS later, when the dxmn thing finally arrived, the window of opportunity had closed. I had fun playing with it though. It IS an impressive piece of hardware. It’s still in the box under my desk.
There’s an economics lesson hidden in this quasi-open-source hardware game. There is NO money for wages, and NO money for profits. So the product, while impressive, dribbles out, and the supply chain is anything but certain.
Reminiscent of grocery stores in the Soviet Union. Everything is potentially hunky dory in kumbayah socialist paradise, except that the shelves are perennially bare and everyone spends their time queued up for the little available product.
/soapbox
As I said, it IS really cool that a gumstick-sized computer of this power can even be had for $5. I may or may not get in the queue ‘cause I have real work to do. :-)
I thought the headline was referring to The Won who is 0.
The hard part is figuring out what to do with all these computers!
You were thinking of the Raspberry Pi Obama version. It costs about $2 billion and it doesn’t run any software.
>> the Raspberry Pi Obama version. It costs about $2 billion and it doesnât run any software.
...but it’s shipping right now, and it’s mandatory for you to purchase it. :-)
I just spent 115 for a 32 bit compute stick with Windos 8.1 pre-installed. Testing it out for milk apps.
Awesome post, very interesting
At this cost point, this will attract lots of hobbyists and educators to linux.
I am thinking through ideas myself for some projects to play around with at home.
At 5$ I’m thinking of using these as a video interface for other devices.
I can use one to add HDMI video/audio to any embedded system.
I can feed it almost any sort of data like I2C. 1-wire, serial, canbus, ...whatever, and get a video display with sound... great for debugging among other things.
Saving in my pings to show the hubster later. Thanks & Happy Thanksgiving!
Can it handle that kind of processing?
I was thinking about the same thing but had discarded that application because of the heavy HDMI encryption, I was thinking it might be possible to use it as a switch though.
I’m thinking of simple applications where the Pi would display mostly text from the embedded system. More intense graphics could be stored on the Pi in the SD card for display on demand from the remote system though... to make things a bit more fancy :-)
It would be hard to send any sort of HD video to the Pi over something like I2C but that’s not my intention anyway.
Not really five bucks... and not really available.Note that the cables being included by some vendors make up most of the cost. The board itself really is $5.
Also note that they are including the board with every copy of the December issue of MagPi magazine. I'm not sure if the local Barnes and Noble stores carry that magazine, but if I find one, I'll almost certainly pick it up.
It's been years since I did any embedded systems development, but I'm feeling the urge to take it up again. :-)
I recommend the thing for the price. I already had the cables and I stuck it in a cigar box so I was good to go after buying the chip.
4/5 stars.
Can someone tell me how to project my Samsung tablet onto my Samsung television so I can watch Fox news big screen? I have some success with some documentaries through "send to Samsung" app but the choices are limited.
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