Raspberry Pi

[gumboot]

There's also this site:
http://www.7-cpu.com/

Which I haven't made time to look at properly, but I've kept it open in my browser for months because it looks like it should be important to me.

It's a fairly specific benchmark, but a good choice of single algorithm (as far as that can go) for rating the general performance of a CPU.

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The revised Raspberry Pi Zero is out:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-g ... connector/

They've managed to squeeze a camera connector onto this version, which is otherwise the same and retails for the same £4.

More importantly, they've built a fuckton of 'em this time and shipped them out to the distributors en masse, so there's an actual chance of getting one this time. (Pimoroni and The Pi Hut have them in stock as I'm writing this.)

[toxibunny]

They didn't last long. I thought that looked like a connector on the side, but pimoroni hadn't updated their info yet...

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Woo-hoo! Mine has shipped!

They didn't last long.

It looks like Pimoroni and Pi Hut both still have them in stock, but only if you buy them as part of their kits instead of on its own - which are a bit fleece-y, true.

Anyway, the point is that the factory will be cranking these out continuously from now on as long as people still want them, so things should settle down and they should be more readily available.

[MegaZoid.]

Managed to get a pi zero yesterday, going to try that game boy zero project

[MegaZoid.]

Mine is also being shipped today

[toxibunny]

Anyway, the point is that the factory will be cranking these out continuously from now on as long as people still want them, so things should settle down and they should be more readily available.

Yeah, this is very good news.

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My Pi Zero turned up!

Holy shit, this thing is small! If you take a credit card and cut a generous third off the long edge, then clip a quarter off the end, that's about how big it is. Three SD cards more than cover a Zero.

It's thin, too - at first I though the cheeky feckers had shipped me a blank PCB until I turned it over.

*Really* excited by this! There are so many things you could build this into and have a proper computer running the show instead of trying to make do with a microcontroller.

This isn't a Pi for teaching kids to program, this is a Pi for makers!

[toxibunny]

pi zeros are back in stock at pimoroni! I'm going to miss out again due to credit card being at its limit, dammit...

edit: get in there quick! you've got about 20 mins by my reckoning...

[zip accident]

Whatever happened to Beowolf clusters?

it seems to me that if such clusters ever worked, Pis are the things to make clusters from.

[toxibunny]

Spoiler: show

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Ordered another Zero today. Wednesday morning seems to be the best time to look for fresh stock.

http://whereismypizero.com/

To be honest, I've been a bit reluctant to use the first one I got because it didn't want to mess it up by soldering stuff to it (and then probably have to desolder it again). Now I've got two, though, I can solder a full set of headers to one of them and use it for prototyping and then use new ones for final builds.

They want to sell these in five packs, or something. That'd be handy.

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Eben Upton, CBE.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36498605

[Ratsoap]

Zero back in stock!

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero

Ordered one today

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In case you missed it, Raspberry Pi have launched a new version of the Zero - the Zero W.

http://raspi.tv/2017/pi-zero-w-wifi-on- ... s-new-case
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ten-fr ... aftermath/

This version costs $10 (£9.60), but for that you get everything the vanilla Zero has but with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well!

The chip that implements all of this new, wireless goodness is hooked into the Broadcom SoC via spare SDIO and UART connections, so it doesn't interfere with the USB at all.