Raspberry Pi has helped people to create their own DIY computing projects with its affordable boards. (Photo : Twitter)
Raspberry Pi Foundation has unveiled its new programmable computing board called Raspberry Pi Zero, and it costs just $5.
Over the years, the foundation has enabled universities and hobbyists to create their own DIY computing projects with its affordable boards. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go further at just $5 for its latest computing board creation. The $5 Zero follows the wildly successful Raspberry Pi A, B and 2 computers, which cost $20 to $35.
Raspberry Pi Zero is a tiny little computer with great big ambitions. It features a Broadcom BCM2835 chipset that houses a 1GHz ARM11 core. which is 40 percent faster than the original Pi. The board holds 512MB of RAM, and the operating system is loaded from micro-SD card for expandable storage.
The latest computing board sports a mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output, and a micro-USB sockets for data and power. It also contains unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header with identical pinouts to Model A+/B+/2B. The board measures 65mm x 30mm x 5mm.
To promote the launch of the Pi Zero, Raspberry will give away free units of their $5 computer with every issue of MagPi, the company’s monthly magazine, according to The Verge. It is a unique way of promoting a computer, and it is also the first time that a computer is being given away for free with the purchase of a magazine.
Raspberry Pi zero is available starting immediately in the United Kingdom and United States, as per BGR report, but the company has only built “several tens of thousands” of units so far. More units will be available soon. In order to sell the latest computing board, Raspberry Pi has partnered with element14, The Pi Hut and Pimoroni in the U.K. and Adafruit and Micro Center in the U.S.
