Exploring the new Raspberry Pi Zero

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The new $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is a best seller at a very low price.

A new Raspberry Pi just joined the family, descending on the catalogs of selected distributors in late November. The new Pi also appeared as a covermount on the Pi Foundation's MagPi magazine. Newsstands quickly sold out of the magazines, and "Out of Stock" messages started to appear at the distributor websites.

Why the sudden run on the market? Because the Raspberry Pi Zero is so little, and so inexpensive: only $5 for a working computer that runs existing Raspbian editions and other Rasp Pi software. And, it works!

If you thought the original Rasp Pi was tiny, get ready for something significantly smaller (Figure 1). The new Pi is only 65x30x5mm – which means it occupies a space on the table that is 60 percent smaller than the old 85x56mm Pi editions. Actually, the space needed for plugging in the cables is larger than the Pi Zero itself (Figure 2). On the inside, you'll find a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor with 1GHz core and 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.

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