[Lab] New Raspberry Pi Zero!

[Richard Sloan]

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On Dec 3, 2015 1:40 PM, "Richard Sloan" <themindfactory at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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