The latest issue of MagPi comes with a free Pi Zero on the front cover. From the Twitter updates it looks like it’s going to be £5.99.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/40/

I’ve been trying to buy one for the last hour but no stock 🙁

Sold out 🙁

I subscribe to the magazine so I guess I’ll get one dropping through the door in a few days time.

Question is: what am I going to do with it?

Wife’s going to town today so I’llget her pick one up from Smiths hopefully 🙂

Question is: what am I going to do with it?

ummmmm ….. I’m hoping it can replace a full fat Pi that’s monitoring my PV.

This would of been the greatest stocking filler ever for my kids, i’m hoping CO-OP stock it at lunch time

I just got 3 for my son and some guys in my office from WHSmiths in Southampton.

Just picked up two from Smiths in Exmouth and there were a few more left on the shelves..

Been hearing bits and bobs about this for the last year or so.. (no flipping idea what it’s about though, I’m a total luddite) my kid is a gaming addict and a maths and languages geek who’s just getting a taste for minecraft from mates at school so I’m hoping I can suss this thing out in time for xmas!

I subscribe to the magazine

People actually buy it? You know you can download it as a PDF for free?

Anyways, yeah the Pi Zero looks brilliant.

Bought a copy of the magazine on my way into work, then ordered the micro USB adapter kit and an SD card from RaspPi’s online shop.

Looking forward to having a play with it, and maybe even enticing my daughter to use it.

Pimoroni already have a nice case for it:

Pibow Zero Case for Raspberry Pi Zero version 1.3

And they sell a Pi Zero kit with a Pi Zero + mini-HDMI to HDMI adaptor + micro-B USB to USB A female cable + GPIO header + Pin-out cheat sheet for £8.

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

I have absolutely no use for this and it’d probably go straight into a drawer at home.

But I really, really want it.

Ive never heard of the PiZero… the wife is in town, so i’ve just asked her to buy a copy!

I’ve just picked one up from WHSmiths in King’s Lynn – they have loads.

It’s TINY!!

Rachel

WH Smiths in York city centre doesn’t have them on the shelves, only last months. Although the branch in the train station has plenty.

None in Paddington whsmiths. There was a tailback of middle aged men searching for it though

I already have 2 spare pi in the draw so I don’t need this………

I’m off to Asda

Wandered around a few shops in Manchester…no luck 🙁

Thanks for the psa.

Now I’ve built my laptop, I’ll have to find one now to fit on my spare Raspberry Pi… 🙂

I’ve just picked one up from WHSmiths in King’s Lynn – they have loads.

It’s TINY!!

Rachel
Grrrrr.
[non in Chester]

Cool as this is, I can’t help thinking that randomly sticking unidentified boxes with visible electronics to metal across the city might cause some alarm:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDa_odxAGUU[/video]

Sold out wherever I’ve been today, with the added bonus of running into everyone else who’s niche forum posted a link today!!

Have folk played with the (also new but unrelated) GPIO Zero library yet.

It’s very nice.

Here’s all the code for turning an LED on and off when you push a button:

from gpiozero import LED, Button
from signal import pause
led = LED(17)
button = Button(2)
button.when_pressed = led.on
button.when_released = led.off
pause()

And here’s all the code for controlling the colour of an RGB LED via three potentiometers attached to an MCP3008 ADC:

from gpiozero import RGBLED, MCP3008
from signal import pause
led = RGBLED(red=2, green=3, blue=4)
red_pot = MCP3008(channel=0)
green_pot = MCP3008(channel=1)
blue_pot = MCP3008(channel=2)
led.red.source = red_pot.values
led.green.source = green_pot.values
led.blue.source = blue_pot.values
pause()

GPIO Zero: a friendly Python API for physical computing

How turned on am I meant to be with that? ^ 😕

How turned on am I meant to be with that? ^

I have absolutely no use for this and it’d probably go straight into a drawer at home.

But I really, really want it.

Me too. I already have ARM development board that I got half way through writing a bare metal project for but now I want this to keep it company!

Just ran the FM transmitter thing on my Pi2, awesome 🙂

wouldn’t mind one of these to use as a squeezebox or MPD client in the garage, but no audio out?

Aaargh, my Pi B (original) is still gathering dust. **** it, I’ll have one anyway, its more powerful for a start. Inlaws were talking about ditching TV so was gonna build them a Kodi box anyway

At the price of those things a cluster should be cheap fun…

gwaelod – Member
wouldn’t mind one of these to use as a squeezebox or MPD client in the garage, but no audio out?

should be able to pull it out the HDMI port?

should be able to pull it out the HDMI port?

aye sound comes out of HDMI port but I’ve never seen a HDMI to 3.5mm or HDMI to RCA adaptor. I could get a USB DAC, but I’m a tightarse and like the idea of keeping it under a tenner

first google hit for you http://www.lightinthebox.com/hdmi-v1-3-male-to-3rca-video-audio-av-cable-1-5m_p900707.html?currency=GBP&litb_from=paid_adwords_shopping&litb_from=&adword_mt=&adword_ct=87410557514&adword_kw=&adword_pos=1o3&adword_pl=&adword_net=g&adword_tar=&adw_src_id=1810908567_318786434_22545930314_kwd-151714250234&gclid=CPP6uKaPr8kCFcWVGwodI6gBRA

Or I think this might even be the right size HDMI for the zero (check that though!) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/231285073041?adgroupid=16885268106&hlpht=true&hlpv=2&rlsatarget=kwd-124273572066&adtype=pla&ff3=1&lpid=122&poi=&ul_noapp=true&limghlpsr=true&ff19=0&device=c&chn=ps&campaignid=270621186&crdt=0&ff12=67&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff14=122&viphx=1&ops=true&ff13=80