The geniuses behind the Raspberry Pi have decided
Model B, at £30, was too expensive. They've just released the new Raspberry Pi
Zero, priced at £4.
The idea behind Raspberry Pi is to offer the power
of computing to everyone, by selling for cheap. This should then free up anyone
to be able to code, design and build anything they set their minds to. Examples
that have cropped up include smart home devices, drones and gaming machines.
The new Raspberry Pi Zero might be affordable but
it's still packing enough power to run plenty of tasks. For that £4 price you
get a 1GHz ARM11 Broadcom BCM2835 processor that's 40 per cent faster than the
Raspberry Pi 1 and is backed by 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
There is a selection of ports on the Zero to help
connect it including a microSD card slot, mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video
plus an unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header and composite video header. All that and
the unit itself is just 65 x 30 x 5mm in size.
The Raspberry Pi Zero runs the Raspbian OS and
supports apps like Minecraft and Sonic Pi. It's available to buy now for £4
with nothing or £10 with 8GB storage.
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