Raspberry Pi Zero

Today, I’m 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, featuring:

A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
A micro-SD card slot
A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
Micro-USB sockets for data and power
An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
An unpopulated composite video header
Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm

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was just about to create a thread about this. This is amazing.

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beat yah to it :P

yeah this is really cool!

That's finally the version needed for embedded computing. Tbh. the previous ones were overkill for 99% of the embedded stuff I used them for.

The big brothers are way more suitable as mini PCs... ended using them as mediacenters and CCTV consoles.

Only thing I am disappointed about is the fact that it doesn't have a network interface. Although I understand adding a Rj45 port would add a lot of bulk.

If you want a network connection you could always get a USB male - ethernet female or something similar. Not the best solution but it'd do the job I'm sure

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Yeah that's what I was thinking of doing if I was to get one of these.

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I would have loved to have the pins on the PCB to solder a case connector RJ45 to it.
Have not looked at the scematics yet.. so maybe there is... or a USB header one could solder onto to expand it with a generic USBtoEthernet adapter.

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Oh neat.

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Hopefully there is, although the only through-hole stuff I can see is the the gpio headers

I checked it, there is only the microusb header (the data one) there is no USBtoEthernet chip on the board.

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Hey guys, I am thinking about buying one of these. It can run Linux right? I am thinking about selling my macbook and this would be a nice PC replacement until I would have a new laptop.

damn, that is like the size of a teensy

yeah, it'll run Linux, but I am not sure if you need a special distro for this or not. Honestly, if this is your first experience with Linux and if you want a legit desktop, you should start with x86. ARM is great but not everything works out of the box.

I want a 32 core ARM computer for under $50 even though I didn't do anything with my RPi A+ yet

EDIT: Do you know the difference between x86 and ARM?

What is keeping us from having 32 core ARM laptops?

Most likely because the market for it does not exist.
Sure there is lots of tinkers and hackers but that does not mean a company is going to take a big risk and mass produce a product just to appease the wants and needs of few, they are going to mass produce what is going to make them large sums of profit.

EDIT:
I suppose the answer would be because of your average consumer.

sold out everywhere lol

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hmmm! this is a mystery! we need our top scientists to figure why they all are gone.. :3

yeah .... now we wait :D

5 bucks I promise people that have no idea how to use em just bought them just because 5 bucks :P

What the point of making it smaller than something that's small and then removing the desirable specs

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OK. I have some experience with Linux (Fedora, Manjaro, Ubuntu) but mostly basic stuff. For 5 bucks I will give it a try.