Raspberry Pi Zero, Your $5 computer! Shreyas Iyer23:28 0 comments

  Raspberry Pi has always been the first thing a tech-hobbyist buys whenever he conducts some experiment. Of course, because of the small size factor, and the high affordability, it has become the foremost choice of any student, just starting out with electronics, and even professionals love it. The low maintainance, the smal spacing, its just perfect for a techie with a tight, really tight budget.

  As the website says, there are millions of people already using Raspberry Pi to learn programming, and stuff. With Zero, geeks at Pencoed have defined a whole new level of affordability with powerful computing. Zero shouldn't be underestimated because of the infinitesimal price. It is a full-fledged computing system, capable of doing anything that the previous generations could do. Here are the official specifications:

• 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
• Smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm

    So, with this, if there's something you wish to experiment, or something you need to compute with, look no further! Instead of a Starbucks Coffee, get this and you have world of opportunities you can do with it, be it a web server, or for teaching yourself robotics. Raspberry Pi Zero is currently released only in UK and the US, and soon is expected to be released worldwide.

  The makers of Raspberry Pi are also giving away one Zero to all the subscribers of their magazine 'MagPi'. So, if you are one of those, get ready to be delighted!

For more information on Zero, please visit this link.