{"id":147537,"date":"2015-11-26T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T08:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=147537"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T08:32:36","slug":"raspberry-pi-zero-the-r70-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/147537-raspberry-pi-zero-the-r70-computer.html","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Zero &#8211; the R70 computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation has\u00a0revealed\u00a0the Raspberry Pi Zero, which is priced at $5 (around R70).<\/p>\n<p>Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton said driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important things they want to achieve with the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n<p>The original Raspberry Pi Model B and its successors put a programmable computer within the reach of anyone with $20-35.<\/p>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi Zero features the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor<\/li>\n<li>1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)<\/li>\n<li>512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM<\/li>\n<li>A micro-SD card slot<\/li>\n<li>A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output<\/li>\n<li>Micro-USB sockets for data and power<\/li>\n<li>An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header<\/li>\n<li>Identical pinout to Model A+\/B+\/2B<\/li>\n<li>An unpopulated composite video header<\/li>\n<li>65mm x 30mm x 5mm dimensions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi Zero runs Raspbian, and will run the likes of Scratch, Minecraft, and Sonic Pi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is available today in the UK from our friends at element14, The Pi Hut and Pimoroni, and in the US from Adafruit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upton also announced they are giving away a free Raspberry Pi Zero with\u00a0each copy of the December issue of The MagPi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/146893658\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the Raspberry Pi<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/138006-raspberry-pi-touch-display-launched.html\"><strong>Raspberry Pi touch display launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/117967-raspberry-pi-2-model-b-surprise-launch-sa-prices.html\"><strong>Raspberry Pi 2 Model B surprise launch, SA price<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/82659-raspberry-pi-gets-millions-tinkering.html\"><strong>Raspberry Pi gets millions tinkering<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released the Raspberry Pi Zero &#8211; a fully-functional computer for $5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":147539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,8043,34191],"class_list":["post-147537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspberry-pi-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147541,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147537\/revisions\/147541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}