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Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
Of all the things we do at Raspberry Pi, driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important...
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Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi gets smaller
It was launched in February 2012 with modest ambitions to give young people a small cheap programmable device - and has become Britain's most successful homegrown computer. Now Raspberry Pi is getting smaller and cheaper. By Rory Cellan-Jones. -
The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero could be as revolutionary as the original
The smallest Raspberry Pi yet might be its biggest: the charitable foundation behind the UK's best-selling computer have launched their latest model, the Raspberry Pi Zero, for the absurd price of just £4 ($5 in the United States). By Michael Rundle.
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While I love the newest and fanciest hardware and software like many other, using tech to better life for everyone is a huge passion of mine. Bringing technology to more people with things like the Raspberry Pi zero is desperately needed in order to do that. This is awesome.
The next problem they need to keep working on is getting these into areas that could really benefit from cheap, accessible computers such as 3rd world countries and low-income areas.
I have a friend who is going to use this in his chicken project. What will happen is people can interact with his chickens via hi P.
Its nice to have a smaller form board. i have used the larger board for projects simply because it was available. Now I can downsize some projects, if I could ever purchase one. Hopefully adafruit will get more stock soon.