Reviewers Liked
- Costs less than a movie ticket
- Integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Most connections require adapters, which come separately
- Only one micro USB port
Raspberry Pi Zero
90
9.4
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By PC Authority
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It might be nearly twice the price of the original Pi Zero, but when you're still getting change from a tenner, the Pi Zero W is fantastic value.With no need to mess about with dongles, adapters and USB hubs, your Pi projects can be squeezed into much...
By PC Mag
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Add some accessories, and the Raspberry Pi Zero W is a full PC for pocket change, but its potential for DIY electronic projects is its real...
By IT PRO
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At £4 and with a lot of flexibility, there's no reason *not* to buy this single-board...
By Alphr
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It's easy to concentrate on the negatives of the Pi Zero, and there certainly are more than one. The processor is a step backwards, the loss of camera and display interfaces will hurt many embedded projects, and the need to solder your own GPIO header...
By Android Authority
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Having built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth makes the Raspberry Pi Zero W versatile and flexible, and at $10 you can't fault the price. The possible uses and projects for the Zero W are endless and it lends itself well to Internet-of-Things projects. Sensor...
By ergohacks.com
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The Raspberry Pi Zero is marketed as a cut down Raspberry Pi. To get to that smaller form factor and smaller cost they had to make a number of compromises and the resulting system has advantages – it's cheap cost makes it even easier to experiment with...
By Android Authority
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has done an excellent job of making the Raspberry Pi 1 faster, smaller and cheaper. For the price you just can't fault it. Having said that the weaknesses of the original Raspberry Pi are carried over to the Pi Zero, namely...
By Phoronix
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For those curious about the performance of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, here are some benchmarks I've just finished up for this low-end, low-power ARM development board compared to other ARM, MIPS, and x86 hardware.The Raspberry Pi Zero launched one week...
By Golem
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Wer das Raspberry Pi Zero sinnvoll nutzen will, der sollte bereits einen seiner großen Brüder besitzen. Ansonsten wird die Einrichtung schnell zur Qual. Auch taugt das Zero trotz der ausreichenden Leistung nicht als günstigstes Media-Center aller...
By IT PRO
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The Raspberry Pi Zero is a little computer that's made a big impact. It's the latest single-board device from The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which has been stunning the world by continually making computers smaller and cheaper than anyone had thought...
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