Updated Pi Zero.. - Page 1
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author: hamster_nz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2016, 10:05:26 am
content: There is a new Pi Zero out, with a camera connector. Better order quick if you want one...

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2016, 10:08:06 am
content: Quote from: hamster_nz on May 16, 2016, 10:05:26 amGot mine on order, I also managed to pick up a few of the first 'free' Zeros on the front of the magazine, they're leading useful and fulfilling lives.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2016, 10:25:27 am
content: wanted to get one, though the 10£ shipping kinda takes away the whole point of the thing..

author: linux-works
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2016, 02:36:01 am
content: I'm here in silicon valley and I'm not aware of any local places that stock it. we USED to have a great microcenter store but now its a wallyworld (sigh) and MC has not come back to the bay area.the $5 computer does not exist for most of us. if you have to pay shipping, it kind of kills the deal, for the most part.there are lots of small linux boards now. and the pi STILL has a broken-by-design usb system. I wish they'd fix that, but I don't think they can with the SoC they are using.

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2016, 03:03:35 am
content: I for one am not interested in chasing what amounts to "occasional special offers" for this type of computer.If it's not available on an ongoing basis, it gets limited interest.

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2016, 09:47:07 am
content: Quote from: westfw on May 17, 2016, 03:03:35 amIt's not a special offer, the retail price is £4 or (I think) $6 US .Stock is only limited because it was newly released yesterday.

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2016, 10:54:14 am
content: Honestly, audio would have been more useful than a camera connector...

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 08:36:03 am
content: QuoteSorry. If you announce a product (RPi Zero) that you build one run of (which sells out nearly instantly), and the product is unavailable for six months, after which you announce a replacement that's DIFFERENT (RPi Zero w/camera port) and also sells out nearly instantly, then what you have is a "special offer" and/or "advertising gimmick", and not a "product." IMNSHO, of course.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 10:54:45 am
content: Personally, I'm surprised that there are not *PiZero type boards cropping up on Aliexpress by now for a fiver.

author: Fred27
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 12:08:12 pm
content: Just got one of the new Zeros. Not got anything planned for it. I'm going to just stick it in a drawer somewhere. If anyone wants photos of it sitting in a drawer, let me know.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 01:34:45 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on May 19, 2016, 10:54:45 amBecause chinese dont sell stuff without profit just to get media hype."This 5 dollar computer can change your life and find aliens"

author: OZ1LQB
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 01:35:23 pm
content: Wilfred..How big pictures ar we Allowedto post here..if you know what i meanClaus in denmark

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 01:49:59 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on May 19, 2016, 12:15:06 pmBetter that that "Post pictures of devboards in your drawers" (Wearable computing Fanservice!)

author: linux-works
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 02:51:46 pm
content: Quote from: crispy_tofu on May 17, 2016, 10:54:14 amsata! get me OUT of this usb nightmare with the elephant-bugged pi boards! ;(I want sata. just one sata2 port would make me happy. NAS could be very nice with even just 1 jbod style port, no raid needed.other single board computers have sata. so far, no pi with sata yet. huge omission.could care less about cameras. but storage i/o is hella important to many of us.

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2016, 05:12:01 pm
content: Man, that's more expensive than the "chip" for me,when shipping is included.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 03:41:02 am
content: Quote from: linux-works on May 19, 2016, 02:51:46 pmTake a look at Pogoplug. Just under $10 and has Gigabit Ethernet and a SATA interface that's easily enabled.http://smile.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Backup-Sharing-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B005GM1Q1O/https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=6040

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2016, 08:47:56 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on May 20, 2016, 03:41:02 amNice, I like but it's a discontinued product and it doesn't seem to be easily available outside the US.

author: hamster_nz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2016, 02:29:07 am
content: My Pi Zero (ordered on 16th May) has traveled the 18,723 km from Sheffield, England to my home, arriving this morning. I will be playing with it tonight I guessApparently another batch will go on sale at 09:00 GMT Wednesday 25th May (about 7hr30min from now) fromhttps://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/pi-zeroif anybody else is interested in acquiring one.

author: suicidaleggroll
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2016, 02:45:43 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on May 20, 2016, 03:41:02 amI have a pogoplug, it's a POS...ungodly slow with next to zero RAM, unusable for most things you might want to do with it. I couldn't even rsync some files to it without setting up a damn swap drive. It went in the closet within about 15 minutes of setting it up.As far as SBCs go, I'm a big fan of the ODROID XU4 due to its raw compute power, USB 3, and gigabit ethernet, as well as the Dragonboard 410c for its awesome mix of high speed and low power and ease of integrating into other devices.

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2016, 04:46:32 pm
content: Quote from: westfw on May 19, 2016, 08:36:03 amYour assumptions are wrong; consequently your not-so-humble opinion is misinformed.They didn't build 'one run' of the first product, they built a number of batches, and while the product was only rarely in stock they were occasionally available. The 'replacement' is essentially the same item with one extra connector, and will remain in production - for $5.

author: stj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 01:33:26 am
content: if you want SATA, look at Banana-Pi serieshttp://www.bananapi.org/

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 11:07:24 am
content: Quote from: stj on May 26, 2016, 01:33:26 amThe original Banana Pi vendor seems to have broken into two warring factions, SinoVoip and LeMaker - that link points to the SinoVoip website.Of the SinoVoip products, only the original Banana Pi and the updated M1+ appear to offer native SATA, the M2 omits it completely and the M3 has a slow USB-SATA bridge. LeMakeroffer a Banana Prowhich also seems to havedecentSATA performance.To further complicate matters, some people claim the Orange Pi is a copy of the Banana Pi design, while the Orange Pi designerassertsthat he was paid by Foxconn to design the original Banana Pi, and both SinoVoip and LeMaker are merely the sellersUntil the Raspberry Pi designers get around to a real Pi with onboard SATA, it might be less hassle to go with a Cubieboard

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 11:32:55 am
content: Quote from: CJay on May 17, 2016, 09:47:07 amIts actually still $5, I picked up one last week at MicroCenter.I just have t find a cheap miniHDMI now, I have micro and full size, I don't know why they would choose the mid sized one.

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 12:05:18 pm
content: Quote from: eugenenine on May 26, 2016, 11:32:55 amAmazonhave a decent one for under $2.

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2016, 09:45:48 pm
content: Quote from: rolycat on May 26, 2016, 12:05:18 pmBut then I have to order $48 of other stuff to get free shipping

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2016, 06:04:22 am
content: Quote from: eugenenine on May 26, 2016, 09:45:48 pmI bought the adapters I use with mine for about £1 inc. shipping from eBay, recently one of the local £bargain stores have started selling them, might be worth checking a diollar store if you have one nearby.

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2016, 11:17:55 am
content: It was more of a rant about using the odd size than not being able to get one. The rest of the world uses regular HDMI or micro so why make a new product using the odd size no one else uses. Unless maybe they got a bunch of miniHDMI ports on clearance for really cheap

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2016, 06:27:44 am
content: Quote from: suicidaleggroll on May 25, 2016, 02:45:43 amHave you tried a distro specifically designed for small embedded systems like OpenWRT? 128MB of RAM is actually a lot for an OpenWRT device. I have a Pogoplug (modded with a second Gigabit NIC) running OpenWRT as my main router and barely even 1/4 of the RAM is in use despite being on a rather busy network.Arch is indeed a bit resource heavy but even that has its uses. I have another Pogoplug running Arch that supervises an "experimental" altcoin mining machine. All it does is run a Python script to regularly check if the miner is working properly and restart it if it isn't. A bit of a kludge but it's the difference between a setup that I can just leave under my desk mining altcoins and a miner that needs too much attention to be worth running.

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2016, 09:28:06 pm
content: Thats why Slackware is going on mine, it will run on just about anything.

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 31, 2016, 01:56:11 pm
content: Quote from: eugenenine on May 27, 2016, 11:17:55 amFair point, I have a couple of Android tablets that have the smaller connector and the rest of my 'stuff' uses regular HDMI so it was a bit annoying to find I had to buy yet another adapter to use a 'standard' connector but as someone more famous than I once said, the nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.