Please remember:<p>1. Raspberry Pi Trading use UK based manufacturing facilities, so yes, it costs a little extra to ship outside of the UK.<p>2. Raspberry Pi Trading do not have the capital to make x million devices upfront. So supply will always be limited for devices like the Zero, while demand is high.<p>3. The profits from the sales of all Raspberry Pi devices are used to fund the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We do charitable work to further Computer Science education around the world. The target audience is educators and children, and that will always be the focus. That it happens there are hackers out there that want to use the device is great, but not the priority.<p>4. The popularity of the Raspberry Pi range is mainly down to the amazing community we have and the huge support available from that community.
I just finished a project where this would have been perfect.<p>You can do wireless keyboardless headless setup. You can do it without connecting anything but power.<p>On the SD card, place a file called "ssh" (no extension) so SSH is enabled, and configure wpa_supplicant with your wifi details. I found this on the RPi Stack Exchange [1](thanks scruss)<p>...On the full up-to-date Raspbian...<p>>If a wpa_supplicant.conf file is placed into the /boot/ directory, this will be moved to the /etc/wpa_supplicant/ directory the next time the system is booted, overwriting the network settings; this allows a Wifi configuration to be preloaded onto a card from a Windows or other machine that can only see the boot partition.<p>>Since the /boot partition is accessible by any computer with an SD card reader, wifi configuration is now much simpler.<p>>A skeleton wpa_supplicant.conf file can be as little as:<p><pre><code> network={
ssid="YOUR_SSID"
psk="YOUR_PASSWORD"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
</code></pre>
It needs to be Linux style line endings [according to user2154065] but I used Notepad++ on Windows to do that.<p>---
[1] <a href="http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/10251/prepare-sd-card-for-wifi-on-headless-pi" rel="nofollow">http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/10251/prepare...</a>
My biggest problem with the Raspberry Pis is not having enough time. I'm serious. The ultra low price point makes it very easy to go out and buy one (thanks MicroCenter) but then finding time and energy to complete a project from start to finish is currently my biggest challenge.<p>I have several at home "in production" doing things like Z-Wave home automation, Proliphix thermostat chat-ops, wifi AP, some web scraping scripts...<p>But, at the same time I have a bunch of other ideas that I have a hard time finding time for.<p>My next project will be setting up Pi Cameras for home security and this new platform is looking very promising for that. Very exciting, but I'm dreading not finding time for it.
One of the best things about rPi products is that for $10 not only do you get the computer, but you are also able to tap into the huge community support behind it.
Folks at rPi Foundation are doing some really amazing work. Congrats!
Oh well...<p><pre><code> Hold on there landlubber!
When we said one Pi Zero per order we meant it!
Since we're not completely heartless pirates,
just firm on our policies, we'll let you go
back to your cart and fix this "unfortunate
oversight".
We won't tell anyone if you don't.
- the Pimoroni Crew
p.s. We always announce new Pi Zero stock on
Twitter so it may be worth following for the
latest information!</code></pre>
How robust and dependable is the Raspberry Pi? I've been looking at Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) systems recently, and as far as I can tell, they're third rate hardware loaded up with fourth rate software selling at first rate premiums.<p>I've been considering rolling my own around a Raspberry Pi, but I'm not sure how dependable they are. Does anyone have any advice on that front?
<rant><p>Sadly its extremely hard to buy any Pi Zero at the sticker price. Its always out or not available - and even if you can get em you only can order a limited amount (in the case were I got lucky it was 1).<p>The Pi Zero W seems to continue the trend as far as my local distributor is concerned. I get the overpriced USB hubs its where the profit is at but MAN stop frigging teasing its annoying if you can't buy it at that price.<p>I don't want the adapters - I solder to the board directly and while the sandisk sd card is not terrible its far from the fastest you can get for a similar price.<p></rant><p>sorry about that I am calm now.
$10 is an awesome price point. I've never toyed with any of these, but i think i'll pick one up!<p>How long do you think it'll be before i can safely hook up powered electronics into a system like RasPi? I'd like to make my home "smart", but i don't want to have random IoT vulnerabilities in my home. So a simple network of tiny linux machines powering desk lights/etc will be plenty for me. However, hooking electronics up is dangerous, so i'd rather wait until a professional makes it accessible to someone like me.<p>Thoughts?
Didn't see info on power consumption. Has anyone run zeroes completely wireless using a battery and Bluetooth LE or something or should I be looking elsewhere.
This solves my biggest issue, and will make a few projects I'm working on much much easier.<p>It was such a pain to do USB networking on the old zero. But its a great size and form factor for projects<p>Adding in Bluetooth and Wifi will make it much easier to work with
Guess they were feeling some heat from the new Orange Pi Zero and possibly the C.H.I.P too. The omission of WiFi from the Pi Zero was a massive pain because there just wasn't the USB connectors to add it easily.
Article by Hackaday:<p><a href="http://hackaday.com/2017/02/28/10-raspberry-pi-zero-w-the-w-means-wifi-bluetooth/" rel="nofollow">http://hackaday.com/2017/02/28/10-raspberry-pi-zero-w-the-w-...</a>
That's great, recently I ported Redis to the Pi, and the most exciting device for IoT applications looked to be definitely the Pi zero, but the lack of built-in wireless networking was a big limit. At the same time the doubled price tag of the "W" version does not easily allow to use the zero directly as a building block of certain IoT devices or consumer products. What I hope is they'll be able to retain the features and lower the price at the same time.
This is perfect. I bought two Zeros a few months back and my ONLY issue with them was how cumbersome having to use a USB hub was for wireless and keyboard connectivity. Looks like this may still require that for initial setup, but it makes discrete placement behind a TV much easier once that's taken care of.
I, for one, welcome the $99 soapbar computer war that's about to unleash.<p>It is unbelievable how Apple is missing this train. They could put 100 million soapbars in all homes in the world without even making a dent in their main products. All aluminum case, just like an Apple TV.
I just hope the will produce enough of them. For a project I was looking to buy 5-25 of the 'normal' Raspberry pi Zero, and no supplier had them in stock. We had to go with the normal Rpi 3, which (besides being more expensive) is a lot bulkier.
Here's my first impressions and picture-rich review of the new revision - <a href="http://blog.alexellis.io/pizerow-first-impressions/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.alexellis.io/pizerow-first-impressions/</a>
I am very happy about this. Finally no more USB hubs hanging around my Pi Zero to have WLAN and keyboard access at the same time (yeah, yeah, SSH I know...). Just ordered two pieces over here in Germany, I hope they will arrive by the weekend. :-)
I wonder if there would be a basic model like this with an included touchscreen. That would be perfect for kiosks and any type of wall mount setup like a code entry or whatever. That seems like a common use case to me.
It sounds great, going to skip the zero (was never in stock) and go straight to the zero/W, this is perfect for remote sensors and actuators (I think, don't have it yet, going to order 5 to start)
Does anyone have a project idea for a Pi? I bought one a couple weeks ago to make a VPN server but I found out my router had that functionality built in anyway.<p>I'm looking for a fun project to scratch my engineering itch. I've been a non-engineer for too long.<p>I have an amazon echo for voice recognition functionality if that opens any doors. But I can't rewire my apartment since it's not mine, so I can't do much home automation.
I can't find any information on the site, but it looks like they've put a U.FL footprint on there this time (given that it's connected to the antenna feed), so you could solder one on fairly easily. Can anyone confirm? This would be really nice, currently you can't put the Pi3 in a metal box and get the wireless benefits.
Does anyone know whether its Bluetooth adapter works well with Bluetooth Low Energy beacons in Raspbian or similar? I'm interested in using BLE from non C languages - .NET, Python, Erlang. Have anyone had experience with BLE and RPi3/zero and can share his/her experience?
Yay. Another "Raspberry Pi" device for X$ that in reality is going to be 2X$ + .5X$ shipping. Or frankly, just want be obtainable for any price for the first 3 months.<p>In about getting sick of how they're handling supply issues and pricing. Yeah 10$ ? Bullshit.
Meh. I certainly get the addition of the CSI connector, makes for a pretty cheap wireless camera now - but what I really miss is a DSI connector, and real DSI displays instead of the I2C displays everyone seems to be using.
Why would I buy the Raspberry Pi Zero instead of an OrangePi PC ($15) or an OrangePi Zero ($8.99)? With the latter, I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it, and I'll get 40MB/s unlike the Raspi's 4 to 5MB/s, and both OrangePis are able to run a fully libre stack with kernel 4.10 and have much more CPU grunt than this Raspi (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.2Ghz vs one ancient ARMv6 core at 1Ghz).<p>The built in ethernet port, full size USB port and ability to easily add POE support are just gravy on top to make it easily usable, rather than have a dozen dongles and a USB hub hanging off it needlessly.<p>Edit: Added kernel version, clarified POE support.
I bought one this morning, going to hook it up to my router with pi-hole and block ads/clickbait/Trump out of my browsing across all my devices
You may be "calm now", but nobody wants to read this. And at this exact moment there is a perfect comment directly above this at the top of the thread. Not only are you, and those like you, <i>not</i> the center of the universe, nobody wants to spend their time sifting through these comments on public boards. I know I'm screaming into the hurricane here, but if you were both entitled enough to post this <i>and also self aware enough to know that its a self-serving rant</i> maybe, just maybe, think before you start mashing keys.