{"id":83903,"date":"2015-11-26T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83903"},"modified":"2015-11-26T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T11:20:43","slug":"a-computer-for-just-r70-the-raspberry-pi-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83903-a-computer-for-just-r70-the-raspberry-pi-zero","title":{"rendered":"A computer for just R70: the Raspberry Pi Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation has\u00a0revealed\u00a0the Raspberry Pi Zero, which is priced at <strong>$5<\/strong> (around <strong>R70<\/strong>).<\/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>\u201c<em>It is available today in the UK from our friends at element14, The Pi Hut and Pimoroni, and in the US from Adafruit.<\/em>\u201d<\/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=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/147537-raspberry-pi-zero-the-r70-computer.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other hardware news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83827-amds-radeon-software-crimson-edition-arrives-and-nvidia-feels-a-disturbance-in-the-force.html\">AMD\u2019s Radeon Software Crimson Edition arrives, and NVIDIA feels a disturbance in the force<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83561-intels-broadwell-e-core-i7-6950x-to-sport-an-insane-10-cores-and-20-threads.html\">Intel\u2019s Broadwell-E Core i7-6950X to sport an insane 10 cores and 20 threads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83229-fancy-a-headset-worth-r768-000-the-sennheiser-orpheus.html\">Fancy a headset worth R768, 000: the Sennheiser Orpheus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s surprisingly powerful for that price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":83905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1969,16493,16491],"class_list":["post-83903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-news-2","tag-raspberry-pi-foundation","tag-raspberry-pi-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}