{"id":165252,"date":"2016-05-17T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165252"},"modified":"2016-05-17T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T10:02:06","slug":"raspberry-pi-zero-gets-camera-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/165252-raspberry-pi-zero-gets-camera-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Zero gets camera support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/zero-grows-camera-connector\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton has<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0added the most frequently-demanded missing feature to the Raspberry Pi Zero: a camera connector.<\/p>\n<p>Upton said they have taken advantage of a production hiatus to add a camera connector to the device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough dumb luck, the same fine-pitch FPC connector that we use on the Compute Module Development Kit just fits onto the right side of the board,\u201d said Upton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo connect the camera to the Zero, we offer a custom 6-inch adapter cable. This converts from the fine-pitch connector format to the coarser pitch used by the camera board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi Zero with the new camera connector will retain its $5 price.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the\u00a0Raspberry Pi<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/164118-rs-components-adds-the-latest-high-resolution-camera-module-to-portfolio-of-raspberry-pi-peripherals.html\"><strong>RS Components adds the latest high-resolution camera module to portfolio of Raspberry Pi peripherals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/156887-raspberry-pi-3-now-available-in-south-africa-price-details.html\">Raspberry Pi 3 now available in South Africa \u2013 price, details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/147537-raspberry-pi-zero-the-r70-computer.html\">Raspberry Pi Zero \u2013 the R70 computer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Zero has received a custom 6-inch adapter cable for a camera connector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,37212,37210,34191],"class_list":["post-165252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-eben-upton","tag-fpc-connector","tag-raspberry-pi-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165252"}],"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=165252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165272,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165252\/revisions\/165272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}