[Lab] New Raspberry Pi Zero!

[Richard Sloan]

Very sited ESP8266. Com? ;-)
On Nov 26, 2015 3:19 PM, "Chris de Groot" <cdegroot at adobe.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> C.
>
> From: Lab <lab-bounces at artengine.ca> on behalf of Joseph Michael Sleiman <
> jslei033 at uottawa.ca>
> Date: Thursday, November 26, 2015 at 1:57 PM
> To: Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
> Cc: lab <lab at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Lab] New Raspberry Pi Zero!
>
> 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...
>
> ... 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Joseph
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>    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!
>>
>>    https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/
>>
>>    Even at $35 is was a pretty disruptive price - at $5 they've become
>> virtually disposable.
>>    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.
>>
>>    -Jason Cobill
>>
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