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<div>That is cool. I really would like to have a cheaper Arduino Mega, this is not really it, I want the larger RAM, storage and more USBs, but do not care about the HDMI stuff.</div>
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<div>I will be playing with a couple SparkFun ESP8266 Thing boards over the weekend, which are 3 times the price of the Pi Zero, but not when you at WiFi, SD card etc… can you even get a WiFi usb dongle with a micro USB connector?</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Lab <<a href="mailto:lab-bounces@artengine.ca">lab-bounces@artengine.ca</a>> on behalf of Joseph Michael Sleiman <<a href="mailto:jslei033@uottawa.ca">jslei033@uottawa.ca</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, November 26, 2015 at 1:57 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Jason Cobill <<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>lab <<a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Lab] New Raspberry Pi Zero!<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Oh dear. That's pretty amazing. The only microcontroller on ARM that comes close in price, that I know, of, is the mcHack, and this has a GPU built in...
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<div>... The only way this could get better is if intel takes note and drops the price of its x86 embedded line. I was pretty happy with the Pi2 -- this is an amazing deal for anyone making a project around the pi.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Joseph</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jason Cobill <span dir="ltr">
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I imagine most of you will have already heard this morning, but the new Raspberry Pi Zero (based on the Pi 1 architecture, but a bit faster) is $5!<br>
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https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/</a><br>
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<div> Even at $35 is was a pretty disruptive price - at $5 they've become virtually disposable.<br>
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<div> I wonder if other architectures are going to try to compete with an offering at this price, or if components this cheap have margins too slim to be profitable.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-Jason Cobill<br>
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